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Finchingfield market report CM7 1, Braintree
The standing CM7 1 (Finchingfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,881 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM7 1 (Braintree) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
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 CM7 1 (Braintree) is £306,000, from 52 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £308,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,870 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,881 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM7 1 is one sector of CM7 (Braintree): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CM7 1 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.
The going rate for a home in CM7 1
Across 52 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM7 1 home went for £306,000. The mean is £308,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in CM7 1
By floor space, homes in CM7 1 have sold for about £3,870 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 CM7 1 7% above the country at large.
CM7 1's median sold price, 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 | £306,000 | £306,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 153 |
| 2024 | £299,200 | £318,111 | 124 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 108 |
| 2022 | £301,500 | £353,543 | 166 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 178 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 177 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 142 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 139 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 146 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 200 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 213 |
| 2014 | £184,500 | £261,745 | 182 |
| 2013 | £169,200 | £243,462 | 150 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 122 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 176 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 158 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 126 |
| 2008 | £185,500 | £304,074 | 114 |
| 2007 | £186,200 | £315,847 | 256 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 278 |
| 2005 | £148,000 | £263,380 | 217 |
| 2004 | £148,200 | £269,160 | 212 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 220 |
| 2002 | £115,500 | £217,312 | 263 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 244 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 249 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 255 |
| 1998 | £64,200 | £129,592 | 217 |
| 1997 | £57,800 | £118,536 | 279 |
| 1996 | £52,800 | £111,353 | 210 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical CM7 1 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £306,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 166%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM7 1 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 (+33.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.4%). 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) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in CM7 1
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.
CM7 1 recorded 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 242 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 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 shape of the CM7 1 market
This is a thin market: 52 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.
What tenants pay around CM7 1
For renting purposes CM7 1 sits in Braintree. The ONS average private rent there is £1,232 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £863 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,003, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Braintree
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £306,000 median sold price, £1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
Asked and answered: CM7 1 (Finchingfield)
Are property prices falling in CM7 1 (Finchingfield)?
Is CM7 1 (Finchingfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM7 1 (Finchingfield)?
Are CM7 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 CM7 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 136 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM7 district, not just CM7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% 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.
- Hereward Way, Wethersfield, Braintree
- Old Mill Chase, Wethersfield, Braintree
- Bradford Street, Braintree
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CM7 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.
What another bedroom costs in CM
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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in CM7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM7 2 | £320,000 | 45 |
| CM7 3 | £260,000 | 65 |
| CM7 4 | £510,000 | 21 |
| CM7 5 | £365,000 | 37 |
| CM7 9 | £346,500 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full CM7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM7 1? 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 CM7 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM7 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM7 1 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 CM7 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM7 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM7 1 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.