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Great Dunmow market report CM6 3, Dunmow
The CM6 3 (Great Dunmow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,286 HM Land Registry entries for CM6 3 (Dunmow), 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 58 registered 2026 sales put the CM6 3 (Dunmow) median at £505,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £549,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,310 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,286 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CM6 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CM6 (Dunmow). 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 CM6 3 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 a home in CM6 3 sells for
The 2026 median for CM6 3 is £505,000, taken from 58 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £549,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CM6 3
By floor space, homes in CM6 3 have sold for about £4,310 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM6 3 77% above the national figure.
A typical CM6 3 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £505,000 | £505,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £515,000 | £527,315 | 183 |
| 2024 | £565,000 | £600,711 | 137 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 82 |
| 2022 | £580,200 | £680,351 | 126 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 197 |
| 2020 | £457,500 | £593,616 | 94 |
| 2019 | £440,000 | £576,735 | 107 |
| 2018 | £469,000 | £625,186 | 146 |
| 2017 | £374,000 | £510,098 | 224 |
| 2016 | £396,000 | £554,008 | 180 |
| 2015 | £351,200 | £496,246 | 148 |
| 2014 | £316,500 | £449,011 | 153 |
| 2013 | £315,000 | £453,254 | 111 |
| 2012 | £301,000 | £443,034 | 103 |
| 2011 | £325,000 | £490,625 | 84 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 113 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 112 |
| 2008 | £270,000 | £442,587 | 103 |
| 2007 | £265,000 | £449,514 | 213 |
| 2006 | £305,500 | £530,309 | 238 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 173 |
| 2004 | £270,000 | £490,373 | 199 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 177 |
| 2002 | £248,500 | £467,551 | 180 |
| 2001 | £177,000 | £340,273 | 124 |
| 2000 | £191,500 | £375,819 | 110 |
| 1999 | £173,500 | £345,776 | 94 |
| 1998 | £155,000 | £312,879 | 69 |
| 1997 | £125,000 | £256,350 | 85 |
| 1996 | £112,000 | £236,203 | 97 |
| 1995 | £121,200 | £263,470 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical CM6 3 home went from £121,200 in 1995 to £505,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 92%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM6 3 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 (+40.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−21.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CM6 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.9% | −4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −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.
Sales activity in CM6 3
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 58 CM6 3 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 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 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.
What tenants pay around CM6 3
For renting purposes CM6 3 sits in Uttlesford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,283 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £900 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,028, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Uttlesford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,283 a month is £15,396 a year, which against the £505,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. 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 CM6 3 trades
This is a thin market: 58 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within CM6, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CM6 3 (Great Dunmow)
How much did a house sell for in CM6 3 (Great Dunmow)?
Are property prices falling in CM6 3 (Great Dunmow)?
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Are CM6 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
What you could buy in CM6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 106 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM6 district, not just CM6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 CM6 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. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM6 1 | £426,000 | 68 |
| CM6 2 | £402,500 | 38 |
| CM6 4 | £435,000 | 9 |
Zoom out to the full CM6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CM6 3: 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 CM6 3'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 CM6 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM6 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM6 3 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.