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Finchingfield market report CM7 5, Braintree

The CM7 5 (Finchingfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,445 registered sales in CM7 5 (Braintree) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in CM7 5 (Braintree) came in at £365,000, out of 37 registered, up 12% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £384,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,890 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,445 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

CM7 5 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.

What buyers actually paid in CM7 5

The CM7 5 median stands at £365,000 for 2026, built from 37 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £384,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

Price per square metre in CM7 5

Per square metre, CM7 5 homes have averaged around £3,890 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM7 5 28% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical CM7 5 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 217%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 1999 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What CM7 5 has returned, per year

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.

Transaction volumes

The register shows 37 CM7 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 131 sales a year recently, against 155 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.

The shape of the CM7 5 market

This is a thin market: 37 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 CM7, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Rents around CM7 5

For renting purposes CM7 5 sits in Braintree. The ONS average private rent there is £1,232 a month (May 2026). 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.

£1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, which against the £365,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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 5 (Finchingfield)

Are CM7 5 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.

CM7's current homes for sale

What another bedroom costs in CM

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in CM7

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM7's other sectors, each with its own report:

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 5? Price it on the evidence

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM7 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual CM7 5 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.

About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.