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Finchingfield market report CM7 2, Braintree
The CM7 2 (Finchingfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,704 HM Land Registry entries for CM7 2 (Braintree), 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CM7 2 (Braintree) sold for £320,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £325,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,730 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,704 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CM7 2 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 2 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 CM7 2 homes really sell for
Across 45 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM7 2 home went for £320,000. The mean is £325,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CM7 2
The last five years of sales put CM7 2 at roughly £3,730 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CM7 2 sits 12% above the national market.
The price of a typical CM7 2 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £319,500 | £327,140 | 116 |
| 2024 | £286,500 | £304,608 | 134 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 135 |
| 2022 | £338,000 | £396,344 | 174 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 181 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 149 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 125 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 85 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 99 |
| 2016 | £237,800 | £332,685 | 130 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 155 |
| 2014 | £206,000 | £292,247 | 123 |
| 2013 | £180,800 | £260,153 | 78 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 63 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 87 |
| 2010 | £159,500 | £250,137 | 78 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 91 |
| 2008 | £184,800 | £302,926 | 52 |
| 2007 | £182,000 | £308,723 | 159 |
| 2006 | £148,000 | £256,909 | 224 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 135 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 181 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 141 |
| 2002 | £125,500 | £236,127 | 88 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 114 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 94 |
| 1999 | £70,200 | £139,905 | 112 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 86 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 113 |
| 1996 | £57,200 | £120,632 | 88 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical CM7 2 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM7 2 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 2004 (+39.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−25.6%). 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) | +0.2% | −2.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 45 CM7 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 121 sales a year recently, against 142 a year before 2008. 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 CM7 2
CM7 2 falls under Braintree, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,232 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £863 a month here against £2,003 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Braintree
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £320,000 median sold price, £1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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 CM7 2 market
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM7 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Common questions on CM7 2 (Finchingfield)
How much did a house sell for in CM7 2 (Finchingfield)?
Are property prices falling in CM7 2 (Finchingfield)?
Is CM7 2 (Finchingfield) a good place to buy a house?
Are CM7 2 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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 CM7 now
Turning to what is actually available: 136 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM7 district, not just CM7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 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 1 | £306,000 | 52 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CM7 2: 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 CM7 2'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM7 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM7 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM7 2 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.