Sold Price History


Mountbatten Road, Braintree house prices

Mountbatten Road, Braintree house prices are built from 261 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,000. Across the 11 years from 2011 to 2022 the median moved -16.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -36.6%.

Median price paid

£122,000

Change in cash, 2011–2022

-16.2%

Change in real terms

-36.6%

Median per m²

£1,942

HM Land Registry261 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026

Section 01

How Mountbatten Road, Braintree prices moved

The chart tracks the median Mountbatten Road, Braintree house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Mountbatten Road, Braintree house prices by year, median price paid 1996 to 2022
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s4£33,000£73,276
2000s8£104,000£189,457
2010s8£188,500£265,785
2020s3£302,500£309,076
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Mountbatten Road, Braintree is £348,500 in 2021; the lowest is £24,750 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £24,750 to £145,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £53,688, so the real change over the whole record is +212.9% — about +4.49% 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: -16.2% in cash against -36.6% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
4027 Feb 2026Detached£415,000£415,000
13524 Nov 2025Semi-detached£315,000£321,848
12710 Nov 2025Semi-detached£325,000£332,065
213 Jun 2025Detached£350,000£357,609
926 Dec 2024Detached£395,000£415,634
8424 May 2024Detached£395,000£415,634
7216 Feb 2024Detached£395,000£415,634
Flat 149 Mountbatten Court21 Aug 2023Flat or maisonette£185,000£199,885
3826 May 2023Detached£450,000£486,207
Flat 173 Mountbatten Court17 Mar 2023Flat or maisonette£103,000£111,287
Flat 189 Mountbatten Court27 Feb 2023Flat or maisonette£176,000£190,161
28a5 Dec 2022Terraced£316,040£366,160
Flat 153 Mountbatten Court18 Nov 2022Flat or maisonette£185,000£214,339
Flat 171 Mountbatten Court14 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£145,000£167,995
Flat 167 Mountbatten Court14 Jul 2022Flat or maisonette£123,000£142,506
Flat 185 Mountbatten Court29 Apr 2022Flat or maisonette£105,000£121,652
Flat 181 Mountbatten Court22 Apr 2022Flat or maisonette£105,000£121,652
5116 Feb 2022Detached£415,000£480,813
2722 Oct 2021Detached£383,000£483,898
Flat 197 Mountbatten Court30 Sep 2021Flat or maisonette£105,000£132,661
721 Sep 2021Detached£415,000£524,328
8615 Jun 2021Detached£345,000£435,887
Flat 177 Mountbatten Court10 Jun 2021Flat or maisonette£140,000£176,882
Flat 191 Mountbatten Court24 May 2021Flat or maisonette£120,000£151,613
11913 Apr 2021Detached£370,000£467,473
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Mountbatten Road, Braintree values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
40 Mountbatten Road£40,000 (1997)£415,000 (2026)+8.4%+5.6%
135 Mountbatten Road£47,500 (1997)£315,000 (2025)+7.0%+4.2%
127 Mountbatten Road£63,000 (1999)£325,000 (2025)+6.5%+3.7%
92 Mountbatten Road£226,000 (2010)£395,000 (2024)+4.1%+1.0%
72 Mountbatten Road£415,000 (2021)£395,000 (2024)-1.6%-7.5%
FLAT 149 MOUNTBATTEN COURT Mountbatten Road£48,000 (2000)£185,000 (2023)+6.0%+3.2%
38 Mountbatten Road£88,500 (1997)£450,000 (2023)+6.5%+3.7%
FLAT 173 MOUNTBATTEN COURT Mountbatten Road£16,000 (1996)£103,000 (2023)+7.1%+4.4%
FLAT 189 MOUNTBATTEN COURT Mountbatten Road£49,000 (2001)£176,000 (2023)+6.0%+3.2%
28A Mountbatten Road£260,000 (2020)£316,040 (2022)+10.3%+4.3%
FLAT 153 MOUNTBATTEN COURT Mountbatten Road£30,000 (1998)£185,000 (2022)+7.9%+5.3%
FLAT 171 MOUNTBATTEN COURT Mountbatten Road£53,500 (2001)£145,000 (2022)+4.9%+2.3%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Detached12347.1%£195,000£40,000 – £450,000
Flat or maisonette10841.4%£83,500£11,500 – £185,000
Semi-detached249.2%£192,000£47,500 – £367,000
Terraced62.3%£260,000£158,000 – £316,040
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Mountbatten Road, Braintree

108 of the sales on record are leasehold and 153 freehold — 41.4% 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 £83,853 and the median freehold sale £195,000 — a gap of +132.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold10841.4%£83,853
Freehold15358.6%£195,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

A further 7 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 Mountbatten Road, 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 bandCertificatesShare
A2740.4%
B10,72515.3%
C22,77332.6%
D23,37633.4%
E9,37813.4%
F2,7804.0%
G6540.9%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Braintree.

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 £122,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.04% 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 Mountbatten Road, 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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondaryAcademy converter1,210
Alec Hunter AcademySecondaryAcademy sponsor led1,058
Tabor AcademySecondaryAcademy converter989
Lyons Hall SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter558
John Bunyan Primary School and NurseryPrimaryCommunity school501
John Ray Junior SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led439
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary aided school387
Great Bradfords Junior SchoolPrimaryCommunity school326
John Ray Infant SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter319
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter317
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Braintree Rail StationRail2.8 km
Braintree Freeport Rail StationRail3.8 km
Cressing Rail StationRail5.7 km
White Notley Rail StationRail7.7 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Mountbatten Road, Braintree compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mountbatten Road, Braintree sits below that national figure — -22.5%.

Within Braintree the street ranks 740 of 819 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £175,000 (-30.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,942 per square metre, across 36 of the 261 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 £11,500 to £450,000. 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.

Mountbatten Road, 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Braintree house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Mountbatten Road, Braintree?

The median price paid in Mountbatten Road, Braintree across every sale on the register is £122,000. 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 Mountbatten Road, Braintree?

261 sales are on record for Mountbatten Road, Braintree, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Mountbatten Road, Braintree house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -16.2% between 2011 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -36.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Mountbatten Road, Braintree house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £348,500, set in 2021. 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 Mountbatten Road, Braintree?

£1,942 per square metre, from the 36 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 27 Feb 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, “Mountbatten Road, 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.