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Finchingfield market report CM7 4, Braintree
The standing CM7 4 (Finchingfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,054 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM7 4 (Braintree) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the CM7 4 (Braintree) median at £510,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £529,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,330 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,054 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CM7 4 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 4 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 4
The 2026 median for CM7 4 is £510,000, taken from 21 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £529,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in CM7 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM7 4 costs about £4,330 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM7 4 79% above the country at large.
A typical CM7 4 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £510,000 | £510,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £552,000 | £565,200 | 72 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 69 |
| 2023 | £555,000 | £609,809 | 40 |
| 2022 | £515,000 | £603,896 | 73 |
| 2021 | £480,000 | £607,742 | 93 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 67 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 61 |
| 2018 | £421,500 | £561,867 | 54 |
| 2017 | £427,800 | £583,476 | 48 |
| 2016 | £364,500 | £509,939 | 55 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 53 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 65 |
| 2013 | £267,500 | £384,906 | 48 |
| 2012 | £278,500 | £409,917 | 52 |
| 2011 | £315,000 | £475,529 | 49 |
| 2010 | £272,500 | £427,350 | 50 |
| 2009 | £243,800 | £391,911 | 40 |
| 2008 | £335,500 | £549,955 | 26 |
| 2007 | £278,000 | £471,565 | 80 |
| 2006 | £288,800 | £501,320 | 82 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 59 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 69 |
| 2003 | £248,000 | £456,876 | 79 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 100 |
| 2001 | £169,000 | £324,894 | 91 |
| 2000 | £150,000 | £294,375 | 73 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 101 |
| 1998 | £118,200 | £238,595 | 66 |
| 1997 | £108,800 | £223,127 | 94 |
| 1996 | £97,500 | £205,623 | 71 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 53 |
In cash terms the typical CM7 4 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £510,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 193%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM7 4 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 2003 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−27.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CM7 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.6% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 21 sales completed in CM7 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 79 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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.
The shape of the CM7 4 market
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM7 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CM7, this sector trades 59% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around CM7 4
CM7 4 falls under Braintree, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,232 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, which against the £510,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. 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.
Common questions on CM7 4 (Finchingfield)
Are property prices falling in CM7 4 (Finchingfield)?
Is CM7 4 (Finchingfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM7 4 (Finchingfield)?
Are CM7 4 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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.
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 1 | £306,000 | 52 |
| CM7 2 | £320,000 | 45 |
| CM7 3 | £260,000 | 65 |
| 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 4? 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 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM7 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM7 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CM7 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM7 4.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual CM7 4 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.