Stapleford Close, Chelmsford house prices are built from 248 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £72,667. Across the 15 years from 2008 to 2023 the median moved +34.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.1%.
Median price paid
£72,667
Change in cash, 2008–2023
+34.9%
Change in real terms
-13.1%
Median per m²
£1,622
HM Land Registry248 sales67 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Stapleford Close, Chelmsford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Stapleford Close, Chelmsford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | 5 | £47,750 | £106,028 |
| 2000s | 7 | £136,000 | £247,752 |
| 2010s | 1 | £235,000 | £331,350 |
| 2020s | 2 | £210,500 | £215,076 |
The highest yearly median on record for Stapleford Close, Chelmsford is £235,000 in 2017; the lowest is £44,000 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £44,925 to £210,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,755, so the real change over the whole record is +128.0% — about +2.99% 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: +34.9% in cash against -13.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 12 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 41 | 26 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 55 | 21 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £207,500 | £212,011 |
| 99 | 20 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 14 | 29 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 26 | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £184,000 | £193,612 |
| 42 | 20 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 58 | 23 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 29 | 26 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 58 | 31 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £211,000 | £227,977 |
| 84 | 28 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £137,500 | £148,563 |
| 9 | 25 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 47 | 23 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 73 | 20 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 29 | 28 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £274,500 | £318,032 |
| 71 | 6 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £272,500 | £315,715 |
| 28 | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £112,000 | £129,762 |
| 38 | 26 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £223,000 | £281,747 |
| 98 | 29 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 68 | 29 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 58 | 4 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 82 | 7 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £232,000 | £293,118 |
| 65 | 1 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £174,000 | £219,839 |
| 24 | 24 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £242,000 | £322,514 |
| 8 | 26 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £203,000 | £270,539 |
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 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Stapleford Close | £54,000 (1999) | £170,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 41 Stapleford Close | £55,000 (1999) | £160,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 99 Stapleford Close | £44,000 (1996) | £200,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 26 Stapleford Close | £44,685 (1996) | £184,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 42 Stapleford Close | £64,250 (1999) | £230,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 58 Stapleford Close | £60,000 (1996) | £200,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 29 Stapleford Close | £60,000 (1995) | £275,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 84 Stapleford Close | £26,000 (1996) | £137,500 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 9 Stapleford Close | £44,032 (1995) | £210,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.1% |
| 47 Stapleford Close | £160,000 (2013) | £215,000 (2023) | +3.0% | 0.0% |
| 73 Stapleford Close | £12,712 (1995) | £125,000 (2022) | +8.8% | +6.2% |
| 71 Stapleford Close | £52,579 (1996) | £272,500 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Stapleford Close, Chelmsford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 244 | 98.4% | £74,000 | £12,712 – £275,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 0.8% | £56,000 | £56,000 – £56,350 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.4% | £50,875 | £50,875 – £50,875 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 0.4% | £38,000 | £38,000 – £38,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Stapleford Close, Chelmsford
248 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 248 | 100.0% | £72,667 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 66 | 26.6% | £44,768 |
| Existing home | 182 | 73.4% | £123,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -63.6%. 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 3 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 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chelmsford, 48.8% of 82,433 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 359 | 0.4% |
| B | 12,050 | 14.6% |
| C | 27,828 | 33.8% |
| D | 28,870 | 35.0% |
| E | 10,100 | 12.3% |
| F | 2,571 | 3.1% |
| G | 655 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chelmsford at £1,447 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,065 for a one-bedroom home and £1,551 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £72,667 here, that rent is a gross yield of 23.90% 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 CM2, 221 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 90 violent, 6 burglary, 12 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 181,523 residents the 2021 census counted in Chelmsford, that is 1.22 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 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford
The 2021 census counted 181,523 residents in Chelmsford across 75,401 households. 71.1% of those households own their home and 28.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
21 state and independent schools have a CM2 postcode: 16 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moulsham High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,662 |
| Great Baddow High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,516 |
| The Sandon School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,218 |
| Moulsham Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 686 |
| Mildmay Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 611 |
| Barnes Farm Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 539 |
| Trinity Road Primary School | Primary | Community school | 387 |
| Moulsham Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 268 |
| Baddow Hall Junior School | Primary | Community school | 234 |
| St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 231 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chelmsford Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Beaulieu Park | Rail | 4.7 km |
| Ingatestone Rail Station | Rail | 9.3 km |
| Hatfield Peverel Rail Station | Rail | 9.8 km |
Section 09
How Stapleford Close, Chelmsford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Stapleford Close, Chelmsford sits below that national figure — -53.9%.
Within Chelmsford the street ranks 1865 of 1874 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £208,000 (-65.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,622 per square metre, across 67 of the 248 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 £12,712 to £275,000. 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.
Stapleford Close, Chelmsford sits in Chelmsford, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chelmsford at 10.7 times median local earnings of £38,181 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
- Baddow Road£189,000 median
- Springfield Road£195,000 median
- Linnet Drive£190,000 median
- Upper Bridge Road£175,000 median
- Church Road£244,533 median
- Beehive Lane£236,000 median
- Redmayne Drive£114,000 median
- Meadgate Avenue£150,000 median
- Galleywood Road£344,975 median
- Gloucester Avenue£196,250 median
- Ramshaw Drive£125,000 median
- Pollards Green£156,000 median
- Fortinbras Way£180,000 median
- Dorset Avenue£169,000 median
- Wharf Road£287,500 median
- Beeleigh Link£170,498 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 99 Stapleford Close7 sales
- 26 Stapleford Close6 sales
- 58 Stapleford Close6 sales
- 29 Stapleford Close6 sales
- 8 Stapleford Close6 sales
- 79 Stapleford Close6 sales
- 98 Stapleford Close5 sales
- 65 Stapleford Close5 sales
- 97 Stapleford Close5 sales
- 76 Stapleford Close5 sales
- 39 Stapleford Close5 sales
- 41 Stapleford Close4 sales
- 9 Stapleford Close4 sales
- 73 Stapleford Close4 sales
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- 82 Stapleford Close4 sales
- 17 Stapleford Close4 sales
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Back to Chelmsford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Stapleford Close, Chelmsford?
The median price paid in Stapleford Close, Chelmsford across every sale on the register is £72,667. 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 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford?
248 sales are on record for Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, the most recent completing on 12 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Stapleford Close, Chelmsford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +34.9% between 2008 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Stapleford Close, Chelmsford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £235,000, set in 2017. 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 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford?
£1,622 per square metre, from the 67 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 12 Sep 2025. 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, “Stapleford Close, Chelmsford 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.