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Chipping Ongar market report CM5, Ongar
The standing CM5 (Chipping Ongar) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,282 HM Land Registry entries for CM5 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CM5 (Ongar) home changed hands for £500,000 in 2026 (median of 48 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £549,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,190 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,282 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CM5 is a postcode district covering Chipping Ongar, High Ongar, Bobbingworth in Ongar. 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 CM5 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 homes really sell for
48 sales were registered in CM5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £500,000. The mean works out at £549,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CM5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM5 costs about £5,190 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM5 75% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CM5 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £483,000 | £494,550 | 140 |
| 2024 | £535,000 | £568,815 | 123 |
| 2023 | £471,500 | £518,063 | 135 |
| 2022 | £502,500 | £589,239 | 168 |
| 2021 | £480,000 | £607,742 | 200 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 177 |
| 2019 | £472,500 | £619,334 | 156 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 167 |
| 2017 | £425,000 | £579,657 | 171 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 159 |
| 2015 | £365,500 | £516,452 | 196 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 203 |
| 2013 | £310,000 | £446,059 | 151 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 118 |
| 2011 | £303,800 | £458,621 | 122 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 143 |
| 2009 | £276,000 | £443,672 | 84 |
| 2008 | £331,800 | £543,890 | 114 |
| 2007 | £293,000 | £497,010 | 231 |
| 2006 | £277,000 | £480,837 | 261 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 169 |
| 2004 | £268,500 | £487,648 | 185 |
| 2003 | £246,000 | £453,192 | 210 |
| 2002 | £202,000 | £380,061 | 198 |
| 2001 | £184,000 | £353,731 | 191 |
| 2000 | £170,000 | £333,625 | 226 |
| 1999 | £139,000 | £277,020 | 234 |
| 1998 | £122,800 | £247,881 | 138 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 159 |
| 1996 | £93,800 | £197,820 | 164 |
| 1995 | £77,000 | £167,386 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical CM5 home went from £77,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 199%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM5 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 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £660,000 against £265,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CM5
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 | £660,000 | 11 | 1,759 |
| Semi-detached | £505,000 | 20 | 1,917 |
| Terraced | £502,500 | 10 | 920 |
| Flats | £265,000 | 7 | 686 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 108 CM5 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 209 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CM5
The local authority for CM5 is Epping Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,842 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, which against the £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
How CM5 trades
Only 108 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. CM5 sits 5 of 25 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
CM5 (Chipping Ongar): the questions that come up
Is CM5 (Chipping Ongar) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM5 (Chipping Ongar)?
Are property prices falling in CM5 (Chipping Ongar)?
Where do CM5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in CM5 now
Everything above is what homes in CM5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 26 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 45% above the CM5 median sold price.
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.
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%) | — | — |
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
CM5 ranks 12 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.
Five-year change in the median, CM area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CM5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CM5 0 | £507,500 | 24 |
| CM5 9 | £489,000 | 24 |
How CM5 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Before you sell in CM5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM5'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.
Estate agents working CM5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM5 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.