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Finchingfield market report CM7 3, Braintree
The CM7 3 (Finchingfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,462 HM Land Registry entries for CM7 3 (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.
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 3 (Braintree) is £260,000, from 65 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £261,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,670 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,462 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM7 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CM7 (Braintree). 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 CM7 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.
Today's CM7 3 prices, from the sold record
Across 65 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM7 3 home went for £260,000. The mean is £261,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in CM7 3
The last five years of sales put CM7 3 at roughly £3,670 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM7 3 9% below the country at large.
The price of a typical CM7 3 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £263,800 | £270,108 | 164 |
| 2024 | £272,800 | £290,042 | 153 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 136 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 177 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 223 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 133 |
| 2019 | £233,000 | £305,407 | 167 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 169 |
| 2017 | £227,000 | £309,605 | 197 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 231 |
| 2015 | £179,000 | £252,927 | 212 |
| 2014 | £168,500 | £239,047 | 252 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 200 |
| 2012 | £150,500 | £221,517 | 153 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 138 |
| 2010 | £162,000 | £254,058 | 137 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 140 |
| 2008 | £158,000 | £258,995 | 162 |
| 2007 | £157,500 | £267,164 | 362 |
| 2006 | £147,500 | £256,041 | 384 |
| 2005 | £144,900 | £257,864 | 296 |
| 2004 | £139,000 | £252,451 | 410 |
| 2003 | £120,500 | £221,990 | 416 |
| 2002 | £102,500 | £192,853 | 412 |
| 2001 | £78,500 | £150,912 | 481 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 302 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 382 |
| 1998 | £56,400 | £113,847 | 263 |
| 1997 | £52,200 | £107,052 | 255 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 179 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical CM7 3 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 185%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. 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 CM7 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 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.2%). 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) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 65 CM7 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 383 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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 kind of market CM7 3 is
Against the CM7 district median, CM7 3 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of CM7 3
The local authority for CM7 3 is Braintree, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,232 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £863 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,003 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Braintree
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £260,000 median sold price, £1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
What people ask about CM7 3 (Finchingfield)
Are property prices falling in CM7 3 (Finchingfield)?
Is CM7 3 (Finchingfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM7 3 (Finchingfield)?
What happens to CM7 3 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CM7 right 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Hereward Way, Wethersfield, Braintree
- Old Mill Chase, Wethersfield, Braintree
- Bradford Street, Braintree
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CM7 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
CM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM7 1 | £306,000 | 52 |
| CM7 2 | £320,000 | 45 |
| 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 a home in CM7 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CM7 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM7 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM7 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CM7 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM7 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM7 3 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.