Forest Road, Witham house prices are built from 88 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £111,250. Across the 7 years from 2000 to 2007 the median moved +163.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +129.2%.
Median price paid
£111,250
Change in cash, 2000–2007
+163.6%
Change in real terms
+129.2%
Median per m²
£1,678
HM Land Registry88 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Forest Road, Witham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Road, Witham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2007. 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 | 4 | £60,000 | £109,302 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Road, Witham is £145,000 in 2007; the lowest is £55,000 in 2000. Across the full 8-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £145,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £110,000, so the real change over the whole record is +129.2% — about +12.58% 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: +163.6% in cash against +129.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £327,000 | £327,000 |
| 9 | 11 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 8 | 1 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 48 | 10 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 49 | 6 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £110,485 |
| 64 | 15 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £289,000 | £304,097 |
| 41 | 29 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 39 | 15 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £156,500 | £197,728 |
| 30 | 23 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 17 | 15 Mar 2021 | Detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 7 | 27 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £257,000 | £332,755 |
| 38 | 31 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £260,000 | £340,074 |
| 41 | 30 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £153,500 | £200,775 |
| 29 | 24 Oct 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £157,000 | £209,234 |
| 51 | 12 Dec 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £136,100 |
| 1 | 24 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £245,000 | £333,446 |
| 45 | 26 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £224,566 |
| 52 | 6 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £235,000 | £328,069 |
| 39 | 24 Jun 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £142,000 | £198,238 |
| 4 | 27 May 2016 | Terraced | £230,000 | £321,089 |
| 8 | 13 Nov 2015 | Terraced | £230,000 | £324,300 |
| 41 | 31 Jul 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £111,000 | £156,510 |
| 47 | 10 Jun 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £112,000 | £157,920 |
| 33 | 20 Aug 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £114,751 |
| 44 | 25 Apr 2014 | Terraced | £173,000 | £248,149 |
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 Forest Road, Witham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 Forest Road | £260,000 (2019) | £327,000 (2026) | +3.3% | -0.6% |
| 8 Forest Road | £120,000 (2003) | £255,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 48 Forest Road | £44,500 (1996) | £285,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 49 Forest Road | £51,000 (2001) | £105,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 41 Forest Road | £26,995 (1996) | £175,000 (2022) | +7.5% | +4.9% |
| 39 Forest Road | £46,000 (2000) | £156,500 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 30 Forest Road | £116,500 (2003) | £250,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 7 Forest Road | £66,000 (1999) | £257,000 (2020) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
| 29 Forest Road | £38,000 (2000) | £157,000 (2018) | +8.2% | +5.8% |
| 45 Forest Road | £34,000 (1998) | £165,000 (2017) | +8.7% | +6.3% |
| 52 Forest Road | £38,000 (1995) | £235,000 (2016) | +9.1% | +6.7% |
| 4 Forest Road | £134,995 (2003) | £230,000 (2016) | +4.2% | +1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Road, Witham 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 | 44 | 50.0% | £126,995 | £27,500 – £327,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 32 | 36.4% | £91,000 | £24,500 – £175,000 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 10.2% | £120,000 | £44,500 – £285,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 3.4% | £210,000 | £150,000 – £360,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Road, Witham
43 of the sales on record are leasehold and 45 freehold — 48.9% 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 £87,500 and the median freehold sale £150,000 — a gap of +71.4%. 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 | 43 | 48.9% | £87,500 |
| Freehold | 45 | 51.1% | £150,000 |
A further 4 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 Forest Road, Witham
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 £111,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.20% 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 CM8, 179 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 91 violent, 3 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 155,268 residents the 2021 census counted in Braintree, that is 1.15 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 Forest Road, Witham
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 CM8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lift New Rickstones | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,221 |
| Lift Maltings | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 787 |
| Chipping Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 421 |
| Templars Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 412 |
| Howbridge Church of England Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 356 |
| Silver End Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 344 |
| Witham Oaks Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 290 |
| Howbridge Infant School | Primary | Foundation school | 265 |
| Elm Hall Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 228 |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 201 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Witham (Essex) Rail Station | Rail | 0.1 km |
| Hatfield Peverel Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| White Notley Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Kelvedon Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
Section 09
How Forest Road, Witham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Road, Witham sits below that national figure — -29.4%.
Within Witham the street ranks 413 of 442 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,000 (-34.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,678 per square metre, across 28 of the 88 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 £24,500 to £360,000. 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.
Forest Road, Witham 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
- Newland Street£102,475 median
- Constance Close£114,350 median
- Epping Way£153,000 median
- Broadway£110,000 median
- Mortimer Way£181,995 median
- Elderberry Gardens£85,000 median
- Holst Avenue£221,000 median
- Church Street£150,000 median
- Braintree Road£168,000 median
- Hatfield Road£195,000 median
- Wickham Road£95,000 median
- Collingwood Road£170,000 median
- Rickstones Road£180,000 median
- Maldon Road£225,000 median
- Honeysuckle Way£129,250 median
- Carraways£118,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 41 Forest Road7 sales
- 39 Forest Road7 sales
- 29 Forest Road5 sales
- 48 Forest Road4 sales
- 45 Forest Road4 sales
- 8 Forest Road3 sales
- 7 Forest Road3 sales
- 52 Forest Road3 sales
- 33 Forest Road3 sales
- 46 Forest Road3 sales
- 5 Forest Road3 sales
- 35 Forest Road3 sales
- 43 Forest Road3 sales
- 53 Forest Road3 sales
- 38 Forest Road2 sales
- 49 Forest Road2 sales
- 30 Forest Road2 sales
- 4 Forest Road2 sales
- 44 Forest Road2 sales
- 40 Forest Road2 sales
- 31 Forest Road2 sales
- 66 Forest Road2 sales
- 26 Forest Road2 sales
- 16 Forest Road2 sales
Back to Witham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Road, Witham?
The median price paid in Forest Road, Witham across every sale on the register is £111,250. 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 Forest Road, Witham?
88 sales are on record for Forest Road, Witham, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Road, Witham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +163.6% between 2000 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +129.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Road, Witham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £145,000, set in 2007. 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 Forest Road, Witham?
£1,678 per square metre, from the 28 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 17 Apr 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, “Forest Road, Witham 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.