Head Street, Halstead house prices are built from 124 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £128,750. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +82.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.5%.
Median price paid
£128,750
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+82.3%
Change in real terms
+21.5%
Median per m²
£1,408
HM Land Registry124 sales38 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026
Section 01
How Head Street, Halstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Head Street, Halstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £45,250 | £100,476 |
| 2000s | 7 | £100,000 | £182,171 |
| 2010s | 3 | £150,500 | £212,205 |
| 2020s | 1 | £402,000 | £410,739 |
The highest yearly median on record for Head Street, Halstead is £402,000 in 2022; the lowest is £45,250 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £45,250 to £402,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,944, so the real change over the whole record is +385.4% — about +6.52% 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: +82.3% in cash against +21.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 60 | 28 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £178,000 |
| 65 | 11 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| Windy Cottage, 54 | 13 Sep 2024 | Detached | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 49 | 10 Feb 2023 | Detached | £885,000 | £956,207 |
| The Old Fire Station | 9 Dec 2022 | Detached | £777,500 | £900,801 |
| 85 | 30 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 45 | 30 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 48 | 14 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 26 | 20 May 2022 | Terraced | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 56 | 4 Apr 2022 | Detached | £545,000 | £631,430 |
| 20 | 8 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £402,000 | £465,752 |
| 89 | 28 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 103 | 15 Apr 2021 | Detached | £495,000 | £625,403 |
| 6 | 26 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £184,000 | £238,237 |
| 37 | 6 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £289,995 | £375,476 |
| 8 | 6 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £249,000 | £322,397 |
| 47 | 4 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £215,000 | £281,215 |
| 85 | 10 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| 24 | 20 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £140,000 | £186,578 |
| 56a | 28 Mar 2018 | Detached | £390,000 | £519,754 |
| 17 | 31 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £250,000 | £340,251 |
| 6 | 25 Jan 2017 | Terraced | £200,000 | £272,201 |
| 103 | 2 Dec 2016 | Detached | £313,000 | £436,960 |
| The Bungalow, 54 | 6 Sep 2016 | Detached | £336,000 | £469,069 |
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 Head Street, Halstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 Head Street | £199,950 (2003) | £410,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 60 Head Street | £38,459 (2002) | £178,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.7% |
| 49 Head Street | £635,000 (2004) | £885,000 (2023) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| THE OLD FIRE STATION Head Street | £45,000 (1996) | £777,500 (2022) | +11.6% | +8.9% |
| 85 Head Street | £245,000 (2003) | £550,000 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.7% |
| 45 Head Street | £91,000 (2000) | £275,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| 48 Head Street | £59,995 (1996) | £350,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 26 Head Street | £150,000 (2016) | £200,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +1.7% |
| 56 Head Street | £205,000 (2002) | £545,000 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.4% |
| 20 Head Street | £301,000 (2013) | £402,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.7% |
| 103 Head Street | £370,000 (2007) | £495,000 (2021) | +2.1% | -0.2% |
| 6 Head Street | £107,500 (2006) | £184,000 (2020) | +3.9% | +1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Head Street, Halstead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 48 | 38.7% | £148,000 | £35,000 – £402,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 25.0% | £128,500 | £27,500 – £550,000 |
| Detached | 23 | 18.5% | £333,500 | £45,000 – £885,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 22 | 17.7% | £73,500 | £29,000 – £129,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Head Street, Halstead
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 106 freehold — 14.5% 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 £77,250 and the median freehold sale £150,250 — a gap of +94.5%. 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 | 18 | 14.5% | £77,250 |
| Freehold | 106 | 85.5% | £150,250 |
| New build | 9 | 7.3% | £169,950 |
| Existing home | 115 | 92.7% | £128,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +32.3%. 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 6 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 Head Street, Halstead
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 £128,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.41% 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 CO9, 9 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 6 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 18.6 times quieter.
Against the 155,268 residents the 2021 census counted in Braintree, that is 0.06 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 Head Street, Halstead
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.
13 state and independent schools have a CO9 postcode: 11 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedingham School and Sixth Form | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,177 |
| The Ramsey Academy, Halstead | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 702 |
| Richard de Clare Community Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 370 |
| St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Sible Hedingham | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 213 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Halstead | Primary | Academy converter | 211 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Halstead | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 210 |
| de Vere Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 203 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Great Yeldham | Primary | Academy converter | 139 |
| Gosfield Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 134 |
| St John the Baptist Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Pebmarsh | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 97 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bures Rail Station | Rail | 10.9 km |
| Braintree Rail Station | Rail | 11.0 km |
| Chappel & Wakes Colne Rail Station | Rail | 11.3 km |
| Sudbury (Suffolk) Rail Station | Rail | 11.4 km |
Section 09
How Head Street, Halstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Head Street, Halstead sits below that national figure — -18.3%.
Within Halstead the street ranks 334 of 391 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £175,000 (-26.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,408 per square metre, across 38 of the 124 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 £27,500 to £885,000. 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.
Head Street, Halstead 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
- Hawthorn Close£97,000 median
- Swan Street£158,500 median
- Hedingham Road£163,750 median
- Kings Road£145,000 median
- Parsonage Street£145,000 median
- Colne Road£136,750 median
- Trinity Road£125,000 median
- Highfields£161,000 median
- New Street£117,500 median
- Nether Court£170,000 median
- Colchester Road£201,000 median
- Church Road£245,500 median
- Church Street£238,500 median
- Tidings Hill£145,000 median
- Mount Pleasant£133,875 median
- The Street£244,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- THE OLD FIRE STATION Head Street6 sales
- 3A Head Street6 sales
- 89 Head Street4 sales
- 48 Head Street4 sales
- 16 Head Street4 sales
- 60 Head Street3 sales
- 45 Head Street3 sales
- 85 Head Street3 sales
- 56 Head Street3 sales
- 103 Head Street3 sales
- 6 Head Street3 sales
- 8 Head Street3 sales
- 47 Head Street3 sales
- 91 Head Street3 sales
- 46 Head Street3 sales
- 3B Head Street3 sales
- 27A Head Street3 sales
- 4, ROSE COTTAGE Head Street3 sales
- 30 Head Street3 sales
- THE BARN Head Street3 sales
- 49 Head Street2 sales
- 26 Head Street2 sales
- 20 Head Street2 sales
- 37 Head Street2 sales
Back to Halstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Head Street, Halstead?
The median price paid in Head Street, Halstead across every sale on the register is £128,750. 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 Head Street, Halstead?
124 sales are on record for Head Street, Halstead, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Head Street, Halstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +82.3% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Head Street, Halstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £402,000, set in 2022. 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 Head Street, Halstead?
£1,408 per square metre, from the 38 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 15 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, “Head Street, Halstead 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.