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Hatfield Peverel market report CM3 4, Chelmsford

The CM3 4 (Hatfield Peverel) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,561 HM Land Registry entries for CM3 4 (Chelmsford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: 50 registered 2026 sales put the CM3 4 (Chelmsford) median at £527,500, down 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £625,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,561 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

CM3 4 is one sector of CM3 (Chelmsford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.

What buyers actually paid in CM3 4

The CM3 4 median stands at £527,500 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £625,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.

House prices per square metre in CM3 4

Measured by floor area, the last five years of CM3 4 sales average about £4,810 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM3 4 85% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical CM3 4 home went from £99,000 in 1995 to £527,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

Sales activity in CM3 4

Over the last twelve months of data, 50 sales completed in CM3 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 172 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.

Reading the CM3 4 market

This is a thin market: 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within CM3, this sector trades 27% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

The rental side of CM3 4

For renting purposes CM3 4 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,063 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,233 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

Against the £527,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 3.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.

Asked and answered: CM3 4 (Hatfield Peverel)

What happens to CM3 4 prices now?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

CM3's current homes for sale

The price of an extra bedroom in CM

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in CM3

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM3, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full CM3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM3 compares with its neighbours.

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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.