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Halstead market report CO9
The CO9 (Halstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 15,850 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO9 (Halstead) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 152 registered 2026 sales put the CO9 (Halstead) median at £323,500, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £349,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,690 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 15,850 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CO9 is the postcode district covering Halstead in Halstead. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CO9 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 buyers actually paid in CO9
Take the 152 registered 2026 sales in CO9 and the middle price, the median, is £323,500. The mean lands at £349,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CO9
The last five years of sales put CO9 at roughly £3,690 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CO9 14% above the country at large.
A typical CO9 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 | £323,500 | £323,500 | 152 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 397 |
| 2024 | £322,500 | £342,884 | 394 |
| 2023 | £339,000 | £372,478 | 370 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 473 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 702 |
| 2020 | £300,800 | £390,294 | 450 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 496 |
| 2018 | £268,500 | £357,916 | 469 |
| 2017 | £258,000 | £351,886 | 474 |
| 2016 | £252,500 | £353,250 | 501 |
| 2015 | £234,000 | £330,642 | 541 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 479 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 420 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 319 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 356 |
| 2010 | £172,200 | £270,054 | 344 |
| 2009 | £167,000 | £268,454 | 349 |
| 2008 | £174,000 | £285,223 | 269 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 652 |
| 2006 | £172,400 | £299,264 | 613 |
| 2005 | £169,000 | £300,752 | 505 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 599 |
| 2003 | £142,000 | £261,598 | 530 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 671 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 697 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 694 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 774 |
| 1998 | £66,500 | £134,235 | 578 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 635 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 528 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 419 |
In cash terms the typical CO9 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £323,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 171%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO9 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 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−4.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £468,000 against £125,500 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, CO9
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £468,000 | 49 | 4,987 |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | 48 | 5,079 |
| Terraced | £275,000 | 41 | 4,291 |
| Flats | £125,500 | 14 | 1,493 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in CO9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CO9 recorded 316 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 620 sales a year before the financial crisis and 357 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
The local authority for CO9 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.
Against the £323,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,232 a month (£14,784 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on CO9 (Halstead)
Are property prices falling in CO9 (Halstead)?
Is CO9 (Halstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO9 (Halstead)?
Where do CO9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in CO9 today
Everything above is what homes in CO9 sold for. The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 16% above the CO9 median sold price.
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.
"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
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
CO9 ranks 3 of 16 in the CO area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
CO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CO9, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO9 1 | £312,500 | 48 |
| CO9 2 | £323,500 | 48 |
| CO9 3 | £311,000 | 35 |
| CO9 4 | £397,000 | 21 |
How CO9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 | £385,000 | +3% |
| CO6 | £385,000 | +1% |
| CO3 | £340,000 | +4% |
| CO8 | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 | £324,000 | -2% |
| CO9 (this report) | £323,500 | +8% |
| CO4 | £320,000 | +3% |
| CO13 | £320,000 | +0% |
| CO10 | £315,000 | +1% |
| CO11 | £310,000 | +0% |
| CO2 | £275,000 | +10% |
| CO14 | £266,500 | +9% |
| CO16 | £265,000 | -9% |
| CO15 | £236,000 | +7% |
| CO12 | £234,500 | +2% |
| CO1 | £231,500 | +4% |
Selling a home in CO9? 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 CO9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO9 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 CO9.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO9 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.
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.