Church Street, Braintree house prices

Church Street, Braintree house prices are built from 430 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £172,498. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +83.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +33.0%.

HM Land Registry430 sales93 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Church Street, Braintree house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Church Street, Braintree is £335,000 in 2025; the lowest is £52,500 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £53,750 to £335,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,350, so the real change over the whole record is +186.8% — about +3.57% 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: +83.6% in cash against +33.0% 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.

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.

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 Church Street, Braintree values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Church Street, Braintree is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

45 of the sales on record are leasehold and 385 freehold — 10.5% 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 £168,100 and the median freehold sale £175,000 — a gap of +4.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +12.6%. 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 13 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.

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.

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 £172,498 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.51% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Church Street, Braintree sits above that national figure — +9.5%.

Within Braintree the street ranks 490 of 819 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £175,000 (-1.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,597 per square metre, across 93 of the 430 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £17,000 to £1,000,000. 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.

Church Street, Braintree 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.

Streets nearby

• Coggeshall Road£155,000 median
• Cressing Road£150,000 median
• Tortoiseshell Way£139,950 median
• Nottage Crescent£174,500 median
• Bridport Way£197,500 median
• The Street£244,500 median
• Railway Street£123,750 median
• London Road£315,000 median
• Notley Road£143,000 median
• Mill Park Drive£249,995 median
• Keeble Way£87,000 median
• Bradford Street£172,000 median
• Rayne Road£150,000 median
• Church Lane£237,500 median
• Mountbatten Road£122,000 median
• Panfield Lane£190,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 84 Church Street8 sales
• 61 Church Street8 sales
• 58 Church Street7 sales
• 160 Church Street6 sales
• 192 Church Street6 sales
• 65 Church Street6 sales
• 124 Church Street6 sales
• 224 Church Street6 sales
• 90 Church Street5 sales
• 116 Church Street5 sales
• 110 Church Street5 sales
• 282 Church Street5 sales
• 39 Church Street5 sales
• RUGGLES COTTAGE, 146 Church Street5 sales
• FLAT 6, BOCKING WATERSIDE Church Street5 sales
• 158 Church Street5 sales
• 195 Church Street5 sales
• 184 Church Street5 sales
• FLAT 12, BOCKING WATERSIDE Church Street4 sales
• 63 Church Street4 sales
• 121 Church Street4 sales
• 2A, KING WILLIAM COURT Church Street4 sales
• 130 Church Street4 sales
• 240 Church Street4 sales

Back to Braintree house prices.

What is the average house price in Church Street, Braintree?

The median price paid in Church Street, Braintree across every sale on the register is £172,498. 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 Church Street, Braintree?

430 sales are on record for Church Street, Braintree, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Church Street, Braintree house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +83.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +33.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Church Street, Braintree house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £335,000, set in 2025. 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 Church Street, Braintree?

£2,597 per square metre, from the 93 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 1 May 2026. 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, “Church Street, Braintree 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.