Clay Pits, Braintree house prices are built from 153 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 1 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £195,000. Across the 11 years from 2005 to 2016 the median moved +69.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +30.1%.
Median price paid
£195,000
Change in cash, 2005–2016
+69.8%
Change in real terms
+30.1%
Median per m²
£1,864
HM Land Registry153 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Clay Pits, Braintree prices moved
The chart tracks the median Clay Pits, Braintree house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2016. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 7 | £177,500 | £323,353 |
| 2010s | 3 | £270,000 | £380,700 |
The highest yearly median on record for Clay Pits, Braintree is £310,000 in 2015; the lowest is £111,150 in 2000. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £111,150 to £270,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £222,300, so the real change over the whole record is +69.6% — about +3.36% 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: +69.8% in cash against +30.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 26 | 29 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 32 | 10 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 82 | 18 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 25 | 31 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £478,500 | £488,902 |
| 23 | 19 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 62 | 20 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £453,793 |
| 39 | 25 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 52 | 19 Dec 2022 | Detached | £365,000 | £422,884 |
| 14 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 19 | 14 Apr 2022 | Detached | £480,000 | £556,122 |
| 68 | 14 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £538,743 |
| 21 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £469,000 | £592,554 |
| 22 | 16 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £312,500 | £404,614 |
| 31 | 9 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £360,000 | £470,872 |
| 62 | 24 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| 43 | 9 May 2019 | Terraced | £285,000 | £372,774 |
| 24 | 26 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £399,811 |
| 98 | 28 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £466,446 |
| 37 | 20 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £250,000 | £340,251 |
| 20 | 14 Dec 2017 | Detached | £260,000 | £353,861 |
| 36 | 30 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £273,000 | £371,554 |
| 43 | 12 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £270,000 | £376,931 |
| 44 | 18 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £257,500 | £359,480 |
| 86 | 31 May 2016 | Terraced | £240,000 | £335,050 |
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 Clay Pits, Braintree values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 Clay Pits | £135,950 (2003) | £290,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 26 Clay Pits | £133,250 (2001) | £340,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 32 Clay Pits | £107,950 (2000) | £320,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 82 Clay Pits | £195,000 (2009) | £370,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.0% |
| 25 Clay Pits | £184,950 (2002) | £478,500 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 23 Clay Pits | £169,950 (2001) | £475,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 62 Clay Pits | £188,950 (2002) | £420,000 (2023) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 39 Clay Pits | £166,950 (2004) | £300,000 (2023) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| 52 Clay Pits | £130,500 (2001) | £365,000 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.4% |
| 14 Clay Pits | £94,950 (2001) | £310,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 19 Clay Pits | £220,000 (2004) | £480,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 21 Clay Pits | £272,000 (2004) | £469,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Clay Pits, Braintree 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 65 | 42.5% | £199,950 | £98,000 – £478,500 |
| Terraced | 48 | 31.4% | £162,000 | £94,950 – £370,000 |
| Detached | 34 | 22.2% | £232,000 | £111,950 – £480,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 3.9% | £129,995 | £124,950 – £175,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Clay Pits, Braintree
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 149 freehold — 2.6% 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 £137,475 and the median freehold sale £198,500 — a gap of +44.4%. 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 | 4 | 2.6% | £137,475 |
| Freehold | 149 | 97.4% | £198,500 |
| New build | 55 | 35.9% | £159,995 |
| Existing home | 98 | 64.1% | £243,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -34.2%. 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 2 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 Clay Pits, Braintree
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 £195,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.53% 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 Clay Pits, Braintree
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 Clay Pits, Braintree compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Clay Pits, Braintree sits above that national figure — +23.8%.
Within Braintree the street ranks 398 of 819 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £175,000 (+11.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,864 per square metre, across 31 of the 153 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 £94,950 to £480,000. 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.
Clay Pits, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Coggeshall Road£155,000 median
- Cressing Road£150,000 median
- Church Street£172,498 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 25 Clay Pits7 sales
- 62 Clay Pits5 sales
- 35 Clay Pits4 sales
- 82 Clay Pits4 sales
- 31 Clay Pits4 sales
- 86 Clay Pits4 sales
- 50 Clay Pits4 sales
- 58 Clay Pits4 sales
- 26 Clay Pits3 sales
- 32 Clay Pits3 sales
- 23 Clay Pits3 sales
- 52 Clay Pits3 sales
- 14 Clay Pits3 sales
- 19 Clay Pits3 sales
- 21 Clay Pits3 sales
- 43 Clay Pits3 sales
- 24 Clay Pits3 sales
- 37 Clay Pits3 sales
- 20 Clay Pits3 sales
- 44 Clay Pits3 sales
- 74 Clay Pits3 sales
- 72 Clay Pits3 sales
- 70 Clay Pits3 sales
- 92 Clay Pits3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Clay Pits, Braintree?
The median price paid in Clay Pits, Braintree across every sale on the register is £195,000. 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 Clay Pits, Braintree?
153 sales are on record for Clay Pits, Braintree, the most recent completing on 1 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Clay Pits, Braintree house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.8% between 2005 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +30.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Clay Pits, Braintree house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £310,000, set in 2015. 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 Clay Pits, Braintree?
£1,864 per square metre, from the 31 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 Jun 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, “Clay Pits, 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.