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Blackmore market report CM4 9, Ingatestone
The standing CM4 9 (Blackmore) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,842 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM4 9 (Ingatestone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CM4 9 (Ingatestone) came in at £813,200, out of 22 registered, up 26% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £908,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,840 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,842 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CM4 9 is a single group of streets within CM4 (Ingatestone), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM4 9 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.
Today's CM4 9 prices, from the sold record
Across 22 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM4 9 home went for £813,200. The mean is £908,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CM4 9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CM4 9 sales average about £5,840 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM4 9 trades 185% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM4 9 home, 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 | £813,200 | £813,200 | 22 |
| 2025 | £695,000 | £711,620 | 135 |
| 2024 | £755,000 | £802,720 | 113 |
| 2023 | £791,500 | £869,665 | 64 |
| 2022 | £667,500 | £782,720 | 75 |
| 2021 | £647,000 | £819,185 | 112 |
| 2020 | £627,500 | £814,194 | 86 |
| 2019 | £610,000 | £799,564 | 65 |
| 2018 | £717,500 | £956,441 | 69 |
| 2017 | £600,000 | £818,340 | 77 |
| 2016 | £570,000 | £797,436 | 80 |
| 2015 | £490,000 | £692,370 | 77 |
| 2014 | £530,000 | £751,898 | 95 |
| 2013 | £393,000 | £565,488 | 99 |
| 2012 | £387,000 | £569,616 | 61 |
| 2011 | £340,000 | £513,269 | 61 |
| 2010 | £450,000 | £705,716 | 82 |
| 2009 | £380,000 | £610,853 | 55 |
| 2008 | £420,000 | £688,469 | 62 |
| 2007 | £436,200 | £739,917 | 102 |
| 2006 | £367,500 | £637,933 | 136 |
| 2005 | £314,200 | £559,149 | 102 |
| 2004 | £316,200 | £574,281 | 116 |
| 2003 | £315,000 | £580,306 | 86 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 131 |
| 2001 | £209,000 | £401,792 | 109 |
| 2000 | £182,000 | £357,175 | 83 |
| 1999 | £155,000 | £308,907 | 133 |
| 1998 | £150,000 | £302,786 | 76 |
| 1997 | £130,200 | £267,014 | 108 |
| 1996 | £115,000 | £242,530 | 91 |
| 1995 | £104,000 | £226,080 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical CM4 9 home went from £104,000 in 1995 to £813,200 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 260%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM4 9 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 2014 (+34.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−24.4%). 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) | +17.0% | +14.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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 CM4 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 22 CM4 9 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 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
Rents around CM4 9
The local authority for CM4 9 is Chelmsford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £813,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.1%. 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.
The shape of the CM4 9 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM4 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Common questions on CM4 9 (Blackmore)
Are property prices falling in CM4 9 (Blackmore)?
Is CM4 9 (Blackmore) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM4 9 (Blackmore)?
What happens to CM4 9 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CM4's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 33 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM4 district, not just CM4 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 CM4 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM4 0 | £779,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full CM4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM4 9? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CM4 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM4 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM4 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CM4 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM4 9.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual CM4 9 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.