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Chipping Ongar market report CM5 9, Ongar
The CM5 9 (Chipping Ongar) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,948 registered sales in CM5 9 (Ongar) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CM5 9 (Ongar) is £489,000, from 24 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £518,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,948 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 CM5 9 is a single group of streets within CM5 (Ongar), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM5 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.
What CM5 9 homes really sell for
In the CM5 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £489,000, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £518,100, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CM5 9
By floor space, homes in CM5 9 have sold for about £5,140 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM5 9 72% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CM5 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £489,000 | £489,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £477,500 | £488,918 | 84 |
| 2024 | £535,000 | £568,815 | 73 |
| 2023 | £470,800 | £517,294 | 90 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 93 |
| 2021 | £455,000 | £576,089 | 114 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 88 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 78 |
| 2018 | £445,000 | £593,193 | 95 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 102 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 82 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 104 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 122 |
| 2013 | £310,000 | £446,059 | 88 |
| 2012 | £277,500 | £408,445 | 72 |
| 2011 | £305,000 | £460,433 | 75 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 95 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 53 |
| 2008 | £296,000 | £485,206 | 62 |
| 2007 | £277,500 | £470,717 | 124 |
| 2006 | £277,200 | £481,184 | 118 |
| 2005 | £262,500 | £467,144 | 80 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 92 |
| 2003 | £240,000 | £442,138 | 128 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 108 |
| 2001 | £184,500 | £354,692 | 116 |
| 2000 | £146,000 | £286,525 | 113 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 118 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 86 |
| 1997 | £89,000 | £182,521 | 89 |
| 1996 | £95,000 | £200,351 | 110 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 72 |
In cash terms the typical CM5 9 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £489,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM5 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 1998 (+34.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.5%). 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% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 CM5 9
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CM5 9 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 110 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
The rental side of CM5 9
The local authority for CM5 9 is Epping Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,842 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,228 a month here against £2,879 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Epping Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £489,000 median sold price, £1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
The shape of the CM5 9 market
This is a thin market: 24 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. 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.
What people ask about CM5 9 (Chipping Ongar)
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Where do CM5 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
On the market in CM5 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every CM5 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in CM
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, CM area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CM5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM5 0 | £507,500 | 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 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 CM5 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM5 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM5 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM5 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM5 9 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.