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Halstead market report CO9 4
The standing CO9 4 (Halstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,165 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO9 4 (Halstead) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the CO9 4 (Halstead) median at £397,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £417,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,165 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CO9 4 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 4 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 4
The 2026 median for CO9 4 is £397,000, taken from 21 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £417,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
CO9 4 prices by floor area
A square metre of CO9 4 home has cost about £3,800 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CO9 4 39% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CO9 4 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 | £397,000 | £397,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 41 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 44 |
| 2023 | £452,500 | £497,187 | 56 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 53 |
| 2021 | £370,500 | £469,101 | 96 |
| 2020 | £385,000 | £499,545 | 55 |
| 2019 | £316,200 | £414,463 | 64 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 53 |
| 2017 | £301,000 | £410,534 | 53 |
| 2016 | £291,500 | £407,811 | 66 |
| 2015 | £267,500 | £377,978 | 76 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 60 |
| 2013 | £236,200 | £339,868 | 64 |
| 2012 | £218,800 | £322,046 | 40 |
| 2011 | £225,400 | £340,267 | 50 |
| 2010 | £218,000 | £341,880 | 51 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 40 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 25 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 88 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 83 |
| 2005 | £203,000 | £361,258 | 71 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 81 |
| 2003 | £178,500 | £328,840 | 74 |
| 2002 | £149,800 | £281,847 | 100 |
| 2001 | £133,500 | £256,647 | 106 |
| 2000 | £98,200 | £192,718 | 88 |
| 1999 | £88,200 | £175,778 | 111 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 103 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 106 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 94 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical CO9 4 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £397,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO9 4 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 2001 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−28.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO9 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 21 CO9 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 86 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of CO9 4
For renting purposes CO9 4 sits in Braintree. The ONS average private rent there is £1,232 a month (May 2026). 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 £397,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
How CO9 4 trades
This is a thin market: 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CO9 district median, CO9 4 sits 23% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CO9 4 (Halstead)
Are property prices falling in CO9 4 (Halstead)?
Is CO9 4 (Halstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO9 4 (Halstead)?
What happens to CO9 4 prices now?
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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 CO9 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CO: the cost
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. 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
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 3 | £311,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full CO9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO9 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CO9 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO9 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO9 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO9 4 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 CO9 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CO9 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO9 4 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.