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Finchingfield market report CM7 9, Braintree
The standing CM7 9 (Finchingfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,376 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM7 9 (Braintree) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CM7 9 (Braintree) is £346,500, from 58 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £398,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,376 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM7 9 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 9 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.
CM7 9 sold prices: where the market stands
58 sales were registered in CM7 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £346,500. The mean works out at £398,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in CM7 9
By floor space, homes in CM7 9 have sold for about £3,830 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CM7 9 sits 22% above the national market.
A typical CM7 9 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 | £346,500 | £346,500 | 58 |
| 2025 | £324,000 | £331,748 | 146 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 124 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 115 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 155 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 196 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 126 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 153 |
| 2018 | £288,000 | £383,909 | 145 |
| 2017 | £270,700 | £369,208 | 149 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 174 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 179 |
| 2014 | £208,000 | £295,084 | 162 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 151 |
| 2012 | £206,000 | £303,206 | 145 |
| 2011 | £182,000 | £274,750 | 151 |
| 2010 | £193,000 | £302,674 | 132 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 121 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 127 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 247 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 255 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 210 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 269 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 248 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 316 |
| 2001 | £97,500 | £187,439 | 357 |
| 2000 | £97,000 | £190,363 | 334 |
| 1999 | £85,500 | £170,397 | 340 |
| 1998 | £87,500 | £176,625 | 307 |
| 1997 | £71,800 | £147,247 | 376 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 242 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical CM7 9 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £346,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 192%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CM7 9 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.3%). 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) | +6.9% | +4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in CM7 9
The year-by-year sales count
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 58 CM7 9 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 280 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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.
How CM7 9 trades
Only 58 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM7 9 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 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around CM7 9
For renting purposes CM7 9 sits in Braintree. The ONS average private rent there is £1,232 a month (May 2026). 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 £346,500 median sold price, £1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 9 (Finchingfield)
Are property prices falling in CM7 9 (Finchingfield)?
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Will CM7 9 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% 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.
On the market in CM7 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. 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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM7's other sectors, each with 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 4 | £510,000 | 21 |
| CM7 5 | £365,000 | 37 |
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 9: 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 9'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CM7 9.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM7 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM7 9 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.