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Halstead market report CO9 1
The standing CO9 1 (Halstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,580 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO9 1 (Halstead) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical CO9 1 (Halstead) home changed hands for £312,500 in 2026 (median of 48 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £324,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,660 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,580 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CO9 1 is one sector of CO9 (Halstead): 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 CO9 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.
CO9 1 sold prices: where the market stands
The CO9 1 median stands at £312,500 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £324,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in CO9 1
The last five years of sales put CO9 1 at roughly £3,660 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO9 1 runs 10% above it.
A typical CO9 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £312,500 | £312,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £339,500 | £347,618 | 178 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 166 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 127 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 162 |
| 2021 | £287,500 | £364,012 | 213 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 195 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 206 |
| 2018 | £261,200 | £348,185 | 152 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 146 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 145 |
| 2015 | £207,000 | £292,491 | 158 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 157 |
| 2013 | £174,200 | £250,656 | 154 |
| 2012 | £171,200 | £251,985 | 112 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 132 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 115 |
| 2009 | £163,000 | £262,024 | 143 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 121 |
| 2007 | £173,500 | £294,304 | 220 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 232 |
| 2005 | £154,500 | £274,948 | 176 |
| 2004 | £146,100 | £265,346 | 224 |
| 2003 | £132,000 | £243,176 | 183 |
| 2002 | £103,000 | £193,794 | 228 |
| 2001 | £83,700 | £160,909 | 232 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 248 |
| 1999 | £64,500 | £128,545 | 282 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 213 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 194 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 189 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 129 |
In cash terms the typical CO9 1 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £312,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO9 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.0%). 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) | −8.0% | −10.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in CO9 1
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in CO9 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 218 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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 kind of market CO9 1 is
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO9 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of CO9 1
For renting purposes CO9 1 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 £312,500 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.
Asked and answered: CO9 1 (Halstead)
Is CO9 1 (Halstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO9 1 (Halstead)?
Are property prices falling in CO9 1 (Halstead)?
Will CO9 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 CO9 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 60 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO9 district, not just CO9 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 CO9 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 CO
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. 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 | — | £315,000 | £430,000 (+37%) | £625,000 (+45%) | £865,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £285,000 (+16%) | £335,000 (+18%) | £420,000 (+25%) | £565,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £225,000 | £255,000 (+13%) | £299,995 (+18%) | £381,000 (+27%) | £507,500 (+33%) |
| Flat | £150,000 | £190,000 (+27%) | £287,500 (+51%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CO area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CO9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO9 2 | £323,500 | 48 |
| CO9 3 | £311,000 | 35 |
| CO9 4 | £397,000 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full CO9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CO9 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO9 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO9 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO9 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CO9 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CO9 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO9 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CO9 1 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.
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.