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Hatfield Peverel market report CM3, Chelmsford
The standing CM3 (Hatfield Peverel) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 30,110 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM3 (Chelmsford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CM3 (Chelmsford) home changed hands for £415,000 in 2026 (median of 310 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £463,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 30,110 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CM3 is a postcode district covering Hatfield Peverel, South Woodham Ferrers, North Fambridge in Chelmsford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CM3 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 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for CM3 is £415,000, taken from 310 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £463,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
CM3 prices by floor area
A square metre of CM3 home has cost about £4,560 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM3 trades 46% above the country as a whole.
CM3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 310 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 850 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 740 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 738 |
| 2022 | £444,000 | £520,641 | 921 |
| 2021 | £417,000 | £527,976 | 1,216 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 827 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 824 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 840 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 895 |
| 2016 | £352,000 | £492,451 | 923 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 999 |
| 2014 | £262,000 | £371,693 | 979 |
| 2013 | £244,200 | £351,379 | 733 |
| 2012 | £236,800 | £348,540 | 638 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 652 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 690 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 591 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 568 |
| 2007 | £244,000 | £413,892 | 1,213 |
| 2006 | £222,000 | £385,364 | 1,291 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 1,021 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 1,193 |
| 2003 | £189,000 | £348,184 | 1,149 |
| 2002 | £159,000 | £299,157 | 1,273 |
| 2001 | £128,000 | £246,073 | 1,276 |
| 2000 | £107,500 | £210,969 | 1,141 |
| 1999 | £92,500 | £184,348 | 1,316 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 1,023 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 1,304 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 1,124 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 852 |
In cash terms the typical CM3 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 169%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM3 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 2002 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 48% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £525,000 against £203,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CM3
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £525,000 | 147 | 14,537 |
| Semi-detached | £380,000 | 81 | 7,516 |
| Terraced | £320,000 | 56 | 4,917 |
| Flats | £203,000 | 26 | 3,140 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 661 CM3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,195 sales a year before the financial crisis and 712 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
For renting purposes CM3 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,063 a month here against £2,233 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £415,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
Common questions on CM3 (Hatfield Peverel)
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What happens to CM3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CM3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CM3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 174 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 33% above the CM3 median sold price.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CM3 ranks 20 of 25 in the CM area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CM3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 5 | £370,000 | 104 |
| CM3 6 | £458,500 | 46 |
| CM3 7 | £510,000 | 5 |
| CM3 8 | £470,000 | 17 |
How CM3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CM area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CM4 | £808,200 | +26% |
| CM13 | £530,000 | +12% |
| CM16 | £527,500 | -8% |
| CM15 | £510,000 | -1% |
| CM5 | £500,000 | +4% |
| CM12 | £459,500 | -5% |
| CM11 | £455,000 | -1% |
| CM21 | £450,000 | +13% |
| CM22 | £445,000 | -8% |
| CM6 | £432,500 | +1% |
| CM23 | £422,000 | +0% |
| CM24 | £420,000 | +1% |
| CM3 (this report) | £415,000 | +0% |
| CM14 | £411,200 | +3% |
| CM77 | £402,500 | +6% |
| CM17 | £400,000 | +3% |
| CM1 | £398,000 | +8% |
| CM9 | £375,000 | +9% |
| CM2 | £370,000 | +4% |
| CM19 | £354,500 | +18% |
| CM0 | £350,000 | +0% |
| CM18 | £325,000 | +16% |
| CM20 | £325,000 | +10% |
| CM7 | £320,000 | +7% |
Selling in CM3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CM3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.