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Witham market report CM8 1
The CM8 1 (Witham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 9,263 HM Land Registry entries for CM8 1 (Witham), 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CM8 1 (Witham) is £300,000, from 109 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £301,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,020 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,263 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM8 1 is one sector of CM8 (Witham): 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 CM8 1 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 a home in CM8 1 sells for
In the CM8 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £300,000, from 109 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £301,900, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in CM8 1
Per square metre, CM8 1 homes have averaged around £4,020 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM8 1 trades 5% above the country as a whole.
A typical CM8 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 109 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 261 |
| 2024 | £341,500 | £363,085 | 284 |
| 2023 | £336,000 | £369,182 | 256 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 307 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 355 |
| 2020 | £276,500 | £358,764 | 250 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 315 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 293 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 264 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 335 |
| 2015 | £217,500 | £307,328 | 369 |
| 2014 | £187,000 | £265,292 | 337 |
| 2013 | £161,000 | £231,663 | 221 |
| 2012 | £159,500 | £234,764 | 162 |
| 2011 | £156,000 | £235,500 | 182 |
| 2010 | £156,000 | £244,648 | 235 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 158 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 229 |
| 2007 | £166,500 | £282,430 | 372 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 370 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 444 |
| 2004 | £159,000 | £288,775 | 538 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 381 |
| 2002 | £105,200 | £197,933 | 344 |
| 2001 | £79,200 | £152,258 | 302 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 237 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 350 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 310 |
| 1997 | £48,500 | £99,464 | 297 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 235 |
| 1995 | £47,300 | £102,823 | 161 |
In cash terms the typical CM8 1 home went from £47,300 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CM8 1 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 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.7% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CM8 1
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 109 sales completed in CM8 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 374 sales a year before the financial crisis and 243 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 homes rent for around CM8 1
The local authority for CM8 1 is Braintree, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £300,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,232 a month (£14,784 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: CM8 1 (Witham)
Are property prices falling in CM8 1 (Witham)?
Is CM8 1 (Witham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM8 1 (Witham)?
Where do CM8 1 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in CM8 right now
The live side of the market holds 106 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM8 district, not just CM8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CM8 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.
What another bedroom costs in CM
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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 CM8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM8 2 | £317,800 | 64 |
| CM8 3 | £336,200 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full CM8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CM8 1? 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 CM8 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM8 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM8 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM8 1.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual CM8 1 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.