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Witham market report CM8 2
The CM8 2 (Witham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,273 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM8 2 (Witham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 64 registered 2026 sales put the CM8 2 (Witham) median at £317,800, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £318,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,040 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,273 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CM8 2 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 2 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.
CM8 2 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for CM8 2 is £317,800, taken from 64 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £318,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in CM8 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CM8 2 sales average about £4,040 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM8 2 12% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CM8 2 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £317,800 | £317,800 | 64 |
| 2025 | £324,200 | £331,953 | 206 |
| 2024 | £306,000 | £325,341 | 168 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 176 |
| 2022 | £313,200 | £367,263 | 242 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 306 |
| 2020 | £257,000 | £333,463 | 243 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 260 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 220 |
| 2017 | £246,000 | £335,519 | 211 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 230 |
| 2015 | £193,800 | £273,839 | 208 |
| 2014 | £175,500 | £248,977 | 232 |
| 2013 | £163,000 | £234,541 | 173 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 133 |
| 2011 | £152,500 | £230,216 | 143 |
| 2010 | £156,000 | £244,648 | 139 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 159 |
| 2008 | £159,500 | £261,454 | 150 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 288 |
| 2006 | £147,500 | £256,041 | 285 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 225 |
| 2004 | £136,500 | £247,911 | 337 |
| 2003 | £122,200 | £225,122 | 258 |
| 2002 | £105,500 | £198,497 | 308 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 321 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 262 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 315 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 310 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 298 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 198 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 205 |
In cash terms the typical CM8 2 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £317,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 205%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM8 2 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 (+35.3% 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.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in CM8 2
Sales per year, counted
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.
CM8 2 recorded 64 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 286 sales a year before the financial crisis and 171 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.
What tenants pay around CM8 2
For renting purposes CM8 2 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 £317,800 median sold price, £1,232 a month is £14,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Common questions on CM8 2 (Witham)
Is CM8 2 (Witham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM8 2 (Witham)?
Are property prices falling in CM8 2 (Witham)?
Will CM8 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CM8 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 106 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM8 district, not just CM8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CM area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CM8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM8 1 | £300,000 | 109 |
| 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 in CM8 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM8 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
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See every individual CM8 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.