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Hatfield Peverel market report CM3 5, Chelmsford
The standing CM3 5 (Hatfield Peverel) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 9,985 registered sales in CM3 5 (Chelmsford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CM3 5 (Chelmsford) is £370,000, from 104 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £378,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,985 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CM3 5 is a single group of streets within CM3 (Chelmsford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM3 5 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What CM3 5 homes really sell for
Across 104 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM3 5 home went for £370,000. The mean is £378,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in CM3 5
Per square metre, CM3 5 homes have averaged around £4,450 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM3 5 30% above the country at large.
A typical CM3 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 104 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 227 |
| 2024 | £367,500 | £390,728 | 185 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 194 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 232 |
| 2021 | £334,400 | £423,394 | 321 |
| 2020 | £328,000 | £425,587 | 207 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 237 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 251 |
| 2017 | £298,700 | £407,397 | 278 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 262 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 331 |
| 2014 | £217,000 | £307,852 | 324 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 241 |
| 2012 | £223,200 | £328,523 | 218 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 197 |
| 2010 | £216,500 | £339,528 | 210 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 185 |
| 2008 | £188,000 | £308,172 | 207 |
| 2007 | £206,000 | £349,433 | 415 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 438 |
| 2005 | £178,000 | £316,768 | 359 |
| 2004 | £169,500 | £307,845 | 430 |
| 2003 | £151,800 | £279,652 | 418 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 477 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 508 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 482 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 501 |
| 1998 | £64,200 | £129,592 | 349 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 491 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 406 |
| 1995 | £58,400 | £126,953 | 300 |
In cash terms the typical CM3 5 home went from £58,400 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 191%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM3 5 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2001 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in CM3 5
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
CM3 5 recorded 104 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 441 sales a year before the financial crisis and 188 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around CM3 5
For renting purposes CM3 5 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,063 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,233, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Chelmsford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, which against the £370,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the CM3 5 market
Within CM3, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: CM3 5 (Hatfield Peverel)
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Will CM3 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in CM3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 174 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM3 district, not just CM3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Danbury, Chelmsford, Essex, Chelmsford
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CM3 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £417,500 | £550,000 (+32%) | £785,000 (+43%) | £1,137,500 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £370,000 (+14%) | £447,500 (+21%) | £575,000 (+28%) | £780,000 (+36%) |
| Terraced | £292,000 | £335,000 (+15%) | £380,000 (+13%) | £492,500 (+30%) | £700,000 (+42%) |
| Flat | £202,000 | £280,000 (+39%) | £385,000 (+38%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM3 1 | £435,000 | 21 |
| CM3 2 | £378,800 | 32 |
| CM3 3 | £420,000 | 35 |
| CM3 4 | £527,500 | 50 |
| CM3 6 | £458,500 | 46 |
| CM3 7 | £510,000 | 5 |
| CM3 8 | £470,000 | 17 |
Zoom out to the full CM3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM3 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM3 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM3 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM3 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CM3 5.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM3 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM3 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.