CM7 8 house prices are built from 65 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 31 Oct 2018. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 8 years from 1995 to 2003 the median moved +67.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.6%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 1995–2003
+67.5%
Change in real terms
+42.6%
HM Land Registry65 salesLatest sale 31 Oct 2018
Section 01
How CM7 8 prices moved
The chart tracks the median CM7 8 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2003. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £77,000 | £170,976 |
| 2000s | 3 | £102,000 | £185,814 |
The highest yearly median on record for CM7 8 is £129,000 in 2003; the lowest is £77,000 in 1995. Across the full 9-year record the cash median has moved from £77,000 to £129,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £170,976, so the real change over the whole record is +42.6% — about +4.54% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +67.5% in cash against +42.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FORGE BUNGALOW the Street | 31 Oct 2018 | Detached | £490,000 | £653,025 |
| BAKERY Hawbush Green | 27 Aug 2014 | Detached | £467,000 | £669,858 |
| FORGE BUNGALOW the Street | 29 Aug 2013 | Detached | £332,500 | £484,824 |
| PENFRO the Street | 8 Apr 2011 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £398,478 |
| 10 Wrights Avenue | 14 May 2010 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £239,524 |
| BALLASALLA Church Road | 30 Jan 2009 | Semi-detached | £234,000 | £384,545 |
| OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Church Road | 3 Oct 2008 | Detached | £920,000 | £1,544,286 |
| 61 Blackwater Cottages | 31 Jul 2008 | Terraced | £125,000 | £209,821 |
| 147 Witham Road | 10 Jan 2008 | Detached | £315,000 | £528,750 |
| 81 Springfields | 7 Dec 2007 | Terraced | £180,000 | £312,947 |
| COMPASS HOUSE Compasses Road | 2 Aug 2007 | Detached | £765,000 | £1,330,025 |
| 9 Sarcel | 7 Jun 2007 | Semi-detached | £221,000 | £384,229 |
| 42 the Street | 29 Sep 2006 | Terraced | £150,000 | £267,045 |
| 25 the Street | 24 May 2006 | Detached | £285,000 | £507,386 |
| 40 Sun Lido Square Gardens | 15 May 2006 | Terraced | £197,000 | £350,720 |
| OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Church Road | 12 Dec 2005 | Detached | £405,000 | £737,791 |
| 2 Baytree Close | 4 Nov 2005 | Detached | £280,500 | £510,988 |
| 63 Blackwater Cottages | 26 Aug 2004 | Terraced | £138,000 | £256,026 |
| 42 the Street | 12 Dec 2003 | Terraced | £129,000 | £243,820 |
| BAKERY Hawbush Green | 28 Nov 2003 | Detached | £352,500 | £666,253 |
| 59 Blackwater Cottages | 15 Aug 2003 | Terraced | £107,995 | £204,119 |
| 63 Blackwater Cottages | 25 Jul 2003 | Terraced | £107,000 | £202,239 |
| 40 Sun Lido Square Gardens | 14 Jul 2003 | Terraced | £162,000 | £306,193 |
| 6 Friars Cottages | 10 Jul 2003 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £255,161 |
| 61 Blackwater Cottages | 13 Jan 2003 | Terraced | £99,995 | £188,999 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to CM7 8 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Sun Lido Square Gardens | £98,000 (2000) | £335,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 89 Springfields | £88,000 (2000) | £255,000 (2020) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| FORGE BUNGALOW the Street | £101,000 (1996) | £490,000 (2018) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
| 147 Witham Road | £315,000 (2008) | £442,500 (2017) | +3.8% | +1.5% |
| 25 the Street | £285,000 (2006) | £385,000 (2017) | +2.8% | +0.3% |
| BAKERY Hawbush Green | £220,000 (2000) | £467,000 (2014) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| HILL VIEW Church Road | £78,000 (1996) | £395,000 (2014) | +9.4% | +6.9% |
| PENFRO the Street | £77,000 (1995) | £260,000 (2011) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Church Road | £249,000 (2000) | £920,000 (2008) | +17.7% | +15.2% |
| 61 Blackwater Cottages | £37,000 (1995) | £125,000 (2008) | +9.8% | +7.5% |
| 81 Springfields | £83,000 (2000) | £180,000 (2007) | +11.7% | +9.5% |
| 42 the Street | £129,000 (2003) | £150,000 (2006) | +5.2% | +3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. CM7 8 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 27 | 41.5% | £220,000 | £78,000 – £920,000 |
| Terraced | 21 | 32.3% | £107,000 | £35,750 – £197,000 |
| Semi-detached | 16 | 24.6% | £85,000 | £35,000 – £260,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 1.5% | £89,000 | £89,000 – £89,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in CM7 8
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 64 freehold — 1.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £89,000 and the median freehold sale £125,000 — a gap of +40.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 1 | 1.5% | £89,000 |
| Freehold | 64 | 98.5% | £125,000 |
| New build | 6 | 9.2% | £88,500 |
| Existing home | 59 | 90.8% | £131,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -32.4%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 4 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in CM7 8
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Braintree, 48.3% of 69,960 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 274 | 0.4% |
| B | 10,725 | 15.3% |
| C | 22,773 | 32.6% |
| D | 23,376 | 33.4% |
| E | 9,378 | 13.4% |
| F | 2,780 | 4.0% |
| G | 654 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Braintree at £1,224 a month as of Jun 2026 — £858 for a one-bedroom home and £1,366 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.75% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CM7, 64 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 24 violent, 2 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times quieter.
Against the 155,268 residents the 2021 census counted in Braintree, that is 0.41 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around CM7 8
The 2021 census counted 155,268 residents in Braintree across 64,983 households. 68.6% of those households own their home and 31.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a CM7 postcode: 14 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,210 |
| Alec Hunter Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,058 |
| Tabor Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 989 |
| Lyons Hall School | Primary | Academy converter | 558 |
| John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 501 |
| John Ray Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 439 |
| St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 387 |
| Great Bradfords Junior School | Primary | Community school | 326 |
| John Ray Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 319 |
| Beckers Green Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 317 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Braintree Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Braintree Freeport Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Cressing Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
| White Notley Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How CM7 8 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. CM7 8 sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £35,000 to £920,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
CM7 8 sits in Braintree, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Braintree at 9.2 times median local earnings of £37,704 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Other sectors in CM7
- CM7 1£159,000 median
- CM7 2£185,000 median
- CM7 3£140,000 median
- CM7 4£278,000 median
- CM7 5£194,000 median
- CM7 9£165,000 median
The wider district is CM7.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in CM7 8?
The median price paid in CM7 8 across every sale on the register is £125,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in CM7 8?
65 sales are on record for CM7 8, the most recent completing on 31 Oct 2018. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have CM7 8 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +67.5% between 1995 and 2003. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were CM7 8 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £129,000, set in 2003. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in CM7 8?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 31 Oct 2018. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “CM7 8 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.