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Halstead market report CO9 3
The CO9 3 (Halstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,490 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO9 3 (Halstead) 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: 35 registered 2026 sales put the CO9 3 (Halstead) median at £311,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £349,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,490 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CO9 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CO9 (Halstead). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CO9 3 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.
The going rate for a home in CO9 3
35 sales were registered in CO9 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £311,000. The mean works out at £349,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in CO9 3
The last five years of sales put CO9 3 at roughly £3,600 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CO9 3 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
CO9 3's median sold price, 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 | £311,000 | £311,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £344,000 | £352,226 | 72 |
| 2024 | £337,500 | £358,832 | 84 |
| 2023 | £323,000 | £354,898 | 67 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 97 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 158 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 88 |
| 2019 | £278,200 | £364,654 | 86 |
| 2018 | £257,000 | £342,586 | 109 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 149 |
| 2016 | £272,200 | £380,810 | 144 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 159 |
| 2014 | £214,500 | £304,306 | 126 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 85 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 74 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 79 |
| 2010 | £168,500 | £264,251 | 62 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 75 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 55 |
| 2007 | £181,000 | £307,026 | 162 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 115 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 111 |
| 2004 | £168,500 | £306,029 | 129 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 121 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 143 |
| 2001 | £89,700 | £172,444 | 132 |
| 2000 | £83,500 | £163,869 | 146 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 163 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 121 |
| 1997 | £62,100 | £127,355 | 158 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 91 |
| 1995 | £54,800 | £119,127 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical CO9 3 home went from £54,800 in 1995 to £311,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 161%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO9 3 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 (+39.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO9 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.6% | −11.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CO9 3 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 71 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.
How CO9 3 trades
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO9 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around CO9 3
The local authority for CO9 3 is Braintree, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,232 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £863 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,003 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £311,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
CO9 3 (Halstead): the questions that come up
Is CO9 3 (Halstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO9 3 (Halstead)?
Are property prices falling in CO9 3 (Halstead)?
Where do CO9 3 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CO9 right now
The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO9 district, not just CO9 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 CO9 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 CO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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 CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CO area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CO9
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CO9's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO9 1 | £312,500 | 48 |
| CO9 2 | £323,500 | 48 |
| 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.
Selling in CO9 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO9 3'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.
Estate agents working CO9 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CO9 3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO9 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO9 3 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.
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.