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Chipping Ongar market report CM5 0, Ongar
The standing CM5 0 (Chipping Ongar) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,334 HM Land Registry entries for CM5 0 (Ongar), 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: the middle 2026 sale in CM5 0 (Ongar) came in at £507,500, out of 24 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £581,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,334 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CM5 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CM5 (Ongar). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CM5 0 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 CM5 0 homes really sell for
24 sales were registered in CM5 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £507,500. The mean works out at £581,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CM5 0
The last five years of sales put CM5 0 at roughly £5,250 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM5 0 trades 78% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM5 0 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 | £507,500 | £507,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 56 |
| 2024 | £522,500 | £555,525 | 50 |
| 2023 | £485,000 | £532,897 | 45 |
| 2022 | £555,000 | £650,801 | 75 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 86 |
| 2020 | £545,000 | £707,149 | 89 |
| 2019 | £501,500 | £657,346 | 78 |
| 2018 | £472,500 | £629,851 | 72 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 69 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 77 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 92 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 81 |
| 2013 | £317,000 | £456,131 | 63 |
| 2012 | £262,500 | £386,367 | 46 |
| 2011 | £287,500 | £434,014 | 47 |
| 2010 | £359,500 | £563,789 | 48 |
| 2009 | £389,200 | £625,642 | 31 |
| 2008 | £348,000 | £570,445 | 52 |
| 2007 | £335,000 | £568,253 | 107 |
| 2006 | £275,000 | £477,365 | 143 |
| 2005 | £290,000 | £516,083 | 89 |
| 2004 | £285,000 | £517,616 | 93 |
| 2003 | £249,500 | £459,640 | 82 |
| 2002 | £225,000 | £423,336 | 90 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 75 |
| 2000 | £205,000 | £402,313 | 113 |
| 1999 | £166,000 | £330,829 | 116 |
| 1998 | £132,800 | £268,066 | 52 |
| 1997 | £92,500 | £189,699 | 70 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 54 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical CM5 0 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £507,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 211%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM5 0 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 1998 (+43.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in CM5 0
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CM5 0 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 99 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
The rental side of CM5 0
For renting purposes CM5 0 sits in Epping Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £1,842 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,228 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,879, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Epping Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £507,500 median sold price, £1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How CM5 0 trades
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM5 0 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.
CM5 0 (Chipping Ongar): the questions that come up
Is CM5 0 (Chipping Ongar) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM5 0 (Chipping Ongar)?
Are property prices falling in CM5 0 (Chipping Ongar)?
Where do CM5 0 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CM5 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 26 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM5 district, not just CM5 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every CM5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CM
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CM5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM5 9 | £489,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full CM5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM5 0? 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 CM5 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM5 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM5 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM5 0.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM5 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM5 0 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.