Wagtail Drive, Maldon house prices are built from 278 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £91,250. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +25.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.0%.
Median price paid
£91,250
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+25.3%
Change in real terms
-8.0%
HM Land Registry278 salesLatest sale 6 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Wagtail Drive, Maldon prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wagtail Drive, Maldon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £40,000 | £88,819 |
| 2000s | 8 | £85,000 | £154,845 |
| 2010s | 7 | £179,500 | £253,095 |
| 2020s | 2 | £212,500 | £217,120 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wagtail Drive, Maldon is £240,000 in 2018; the lowest is £30,500 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £225,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,819, so the real change over the whole record is +166.6% — about +3.44% 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: +25.3% in cash against -8.0% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 69 | 22 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £122,000 | £124,652 |
| 62 | 22 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 61 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £277,500 | £291,996 |
| 34 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 91 | 20 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £117,500 | £123,638 |
| 102 | 1 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £173,000 | £182,037 |
| 65 | 23 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 75 | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 55 | 14 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 27 | 13 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 68 | 21 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 12 | 19 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £342,000 | £396,237 |
| 58 | 8 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 36 | 26 Jul 2022 | Detached | £212,500 | £246,200 |
| 73 | 27 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £116,000 | £134,396 |
| 59 | 4 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £268,000 | £310,501 |
| 69 | 25 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 83 | 1 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £132,000 | £152,933 |
| 99 | 8 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 84 | 27 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £283,000 | £357,554 |
| 24 | 3 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 98 | 24 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £156,000 | £197,097 |
| 10 | 21 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £459,642 |
| 62 | 18 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £280,000 | £362,534 |
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 Wagtail Drive, Maldon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Wagtail Drive | £51,600 (1997) | £365,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 69 Wagtail Drive | £23,000 (1997) | £122,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 62 Wagtail Drive | £119,995 (2002) | £300,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 61 Wagtail Drive | £109,995 (2002) | £277,500 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 91 Wagtail Drive | £64,000 (2004) | £117,500 (2024) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| 102 Wagtail Drive | £20,000 (1996) | £173,000 (2024) | +8.0% | +5.3% |
| 65 Wagtail Drive | £42,000 (1997) | £225,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 75 Wagtail Drive | £21,500 (1999) | £115,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 55 Wagtail Drive | £58,500 (1999) | £290,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 27 Wagtail Drive | £46,000 (1995) | £315,000 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.4% |
| 68 Wagtail Drive | £53,500 (1999) | £290,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| 12 Wagtail Drive | £47,500 (1995) | £342,000 (2022) | +7.6% | +5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wagtail Drive, Maldon 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 | 101 | 36.3% | £65,000 | £16,000 – £174,000 |
| Terraced | 98 | 35.3% | £137,500 | £29,000 – £325,000 |
| Semi-detached | 74 | 26.6% | £119,995 | £22,400 – £365,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 1.8% | £117,000 | £35,000 – £248,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wagtail Drive, Maldon
107 of the sales on record are leasehold and 171 freehold — 38.5% 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 £64,000 and the median freehold sale £137,500 — a gap of +114.8%. 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 | 107 | 38.5% | £64,000 |
| Freehold | 171 | 61.5% | £137,500 |
A further 5 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 Wagtail Drive, Maldon
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 £91,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.10% 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 CM9, 62 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 28 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times quieter.
Against the 155,268 residents the 2021 census counted in Braintree, that is 0.40 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 Wagtail Drive, Maldon
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.
11 state and independent schools have a CM9 postcode: 10 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plume School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,789 |
| Wentworth Primary School | Primary | Community school | 437 |
| Great Totham Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 431 |
| Heybridge Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 428 |
| All Saints Maldon Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 316 |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School, Maldon | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 196 |
| Maldon Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 171 |
| Tollesbury School | Primary | Community school | 169 |
| Limebrook Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Free schools | 137 |
| Tolleshunt D'Arcy St Nicholas Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 110 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Witham (Essex) Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
| Hatfield Peverel Rail Station | Rail | 8.6 km |
| North Fambridge Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
| Althorne Rail Station | Rail | 10.9 km |
Section 09
How Wagtail Drive, Maldon compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wagtail Drive, Maldon sits below that national figure — -42.1%.
Within Maldon the street ranks 478 of 484 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £195,000 (-53.2%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £16,000 to £365,000. 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.
Wagtail Drive, Maldon 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
- Spital Road£189,950 median
- Wantz Road£155,000 median
- Fambridge Road£210,000 median
- Mill Road£144,000 median
- High Street£120,000 median
- Mariners Way£160,750 median
- Long Common£144,498 median
- Abbotsmead£188,750 median
- Temple Way£166,000 median
- Church Street£179,500 median
- Doubleday Drive£151,750 median
- Maldon Road£307,500 median
- Lawling Avenue£161,000 median
- King Street£160,120 median
- Heywood Way£174,975 median
- Colchester Road£189,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 58 Wagtail Drive8 sales
- 35 Wagtail Drive7 sales
- 15 Wagtail Drive6 sales
- 96 Wagtail Drive6 sales
- 72 Wagtail Drive6 sales
- 87 Wagtail Drive6 sales
- 62 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 102 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 65 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 27 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 68 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 12 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 10 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 106 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 103 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 45 Wagtail Drive5 sales
- 29 Wagtail Drive4 sales
- 69 Wagtail Drive4 sales
- 55 Wagtail Drive4 sales
- 36 Wagtail Drive4 sales
- 83 Wagtail Drive4 sales
- 99 Wagtail Drive4 sales
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- 57 Wagtail Drive4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wagtail Drive, Maldon?
The median price paid in Wagtail Drive, Maldon across every sale on the register is £91,250. 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 Wagtail Drive, Maldon?
278 sales are on record for Wagtail Drive, Maldon, the most recent completing on 6 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wagtail Drive, Maldon house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +25.3% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wagtail Drive, Maldon house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £240,000, set in 2018. 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 Wagtail Drive, Maldon?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 6 Mar 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, “Wagtail Drive, Maldon 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.