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Finchingfield market report CM7, Braintree
The CM7 (Finchingfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 29,992 registered sales in CM7 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CM7 (Braintree) is £320,000, from 278 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £345,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 29,992 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM7 is a postcode district covering Braintree, Finchingfield, Great Bardfield in Braintree. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CM7 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 homes really sell for
The CM7 median stands at £320,000 for 2026, built from 278 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £345,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CM7
By floor space, homes in CM7 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM7 trades 12% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM7 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 278 |
| 2025 | £319,000 | £326,628 | 800 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 771 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 657 |
| 2022 | £316,500 | £371,132 | 926 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 1,069 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 749 |
| 2019 | £265,200 | £347,614 | 778 |
| 2018 | £268,500 | £357,916 | 724 |
| 2017 | £253,000 | £345,067 | 749 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 947 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 958 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 937 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 731 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 658 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 700 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 679 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 678 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 594 |
| 2007 | £182,500 | £309,571 | 1,292 |
| 2006 | £163,000 | £282,947 | 1,390 |
| 2005 | £157,000 | £279,397 | 1,057 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 1,292 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 1,276 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 1,317 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 1,445 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 1,219 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 1,420 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 1,089 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 1,262 |
| 1996 | £54,400 | £114,727 | 902 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 648 |
In cash terms the typical CM7 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 178%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM7 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 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £480,000 against £175,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, CM7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £480,000 | 75 | 7,919 |
| Semi-detached | £328,500 | 83 | 9,251 |
| Terraced | £280,000 | 74 | 7,855 |
| Flats | £175,500 | 46 | 4,967 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.3% | −2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
CM7 recorded 600 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,286 sales a year before the financial crisis and 686 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.
The shape of the CM7 market
Among the 25 measurable districts of its area, CM7 ranks 24 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around CM7
For renting purposes CM7 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.
£1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, which against the £320,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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 (Finchingfield)
How much did a house sell for in CM7 (Finchingfield)?
Are property prices falling in CM7 (Finchingfield)?
Is CM7 (Finchingfield) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CM7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CM7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CM7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 136 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% above the CM7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Hereward Way, Wethersfield, Braintree
- Old Mill Chase, Wethersfield, Braintree
- Bradford Street, Braintree
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CM
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM area, 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
CM7 ranks 9 of 25 in the CM area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
CM area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CM7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| CM7 9 | £346,500 | 58 |
How CM7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CM area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CM4 | £808,200 | +26% |
| CM13 | £530,000 | +12% |
| CM16 | £527,500 | -8% |
| CM15 | £510,000 | -1% |
| CM5 | £500,000 | +4% |
| CM12 | £459,500 | -5% |
| CM11 | £455,000 | -1% |
| CM21 | £450,000 | +13% |
| CM22 | £445,000 | -8% |
| CM6 | £432,500 | +1% |
| CM23 | £422,000 | +0% |
| CM24 | £420,000 | +1% |
| CM3 | £415,000 | +0% |
| CM14 | £411,200 | +3% |
| CM77 | £402,500 | +6% |
| CM17 | £400,000 | +3% |
| CM1 | £398,000 | +8% |
| CM9 | £375,000 | +9% |
| CM2 | £370,000 | +4% |
| CM19 | £354,500 | +18% |
| CM0 | £350,000 | +0% |
| CM18 | £325,000 | +16% |
| CM20 | £325,000 | +10% |
| CM7 (this report) | £320,000 | +7% |
Selling a home in CM7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM7, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CM7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM7 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.
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.