Local market stats
Every home on the portals across the whole CM1 outcode, all agents, all six sectors. 632 listings, read on one day.
Figures read 3 September 2026
A third of everything for sale in Chelmsford is a flat, in a district where flats are one home in sixteen. 211 of the 632 listings, against 6.2% of the housing stock.
The market today
What this count cannot see. It counts listings still visible on 3 September 2026. Anything that came to market in June and sold before September has left the dataset, so every figure here leans towards the homes that are still standing.
Asking prices
The average asks £83,000 more than the middle, because CM1 holds city-centre flats and Roxwell country houses inside one postcode.
Middle asking priceacross 628 listings on 3 September 2026
Average asking pricepulled up by a long tail at the top
Sold STC counts are as at 3 September 2026. The sector names describe the settlements each one mostly covers, read from the addresses themselves. They are postal sectors, not wards or parishes, and there is no CM1 5.
What a pound buys
The middle listing in CM1 asks £399 a square foot across 981 square feet. A flat asks £384 and a detached house £412, which is a spread of 7% between the cheapest and dearest type of home in the district.
Price per square foot is the asking price divided by the floor area. It compares two homes of different sizes without the bigger one always looking dearer. 446 of the 632 listings publish a floor area, which is 71% coverage. The middle listing sits at £399, the average at £409, and 80% of them fall between £310 and £506.
The 29 Beaulieu Park listings that publish a floor area ask a middle £399 a square foot, which is the district rate to the pound, across a middle home of 1,744 square feet against Chelmsford's 981. The £270,000 gap inside CM1 6 is 78% more house, not a premium rate for it.
Four years
That is 2.2% across four years, before inflation, and the line has held a £9 band the whole time. All the growth in this series landed between 2020 and 2022, in two moves of 5.1% and 6.7%.
2022 to 2026: +2.2%, before inflation.
PropertyData's £/sq ft series for CM1, each point dated September. Year on year: +5.1% in 2021, +6.7% in 2022, +1.9% in 2023, −1.9% in 2024, +1.9% in 2025, +0.2% in 2026. The 2026 point is the newest reading and may fill in further, which is why this shows four years rather than the last figure.
Two different measures, never merged. This series sits above the £399 asking rate above it, which says it is built on a different population of homes, most likely completed sales rather than live listings. Both are reported here. Neither is converted into the other and they are never drawn as one line.
What it says to a seller. The market is holding a plateau rather than falling. Anyone waiting for a rebound before they move has been waiting since 2022.
Days on the market
Counted for each listing on its own, from the day it was advertised. It measures time since listing for homes still showing on 3 September 2026, so quick sales have already left the figures and every number here leans towards slow movers. It is a picture of what is standing, not an answer to how long a sale takes.
The listing mix
Listings: 211 flats, 187 detached, 164 semi-detached and 70 terraced, from all 632. Housing stock from census output-area counts across the 271 output areas in CM1. The two are different populations, so read this as a signal about turnover rather than a like-for-like comparison.
Chelmsford's apartment stock is turning over hard and clearing slowly at the same time. For a vendor with a house, most of the visible competition is not competing with them.
Months of stock is how long the homes for sale would take to clear at the current rate of sale. Every sector except CM1 1 is rated balanced.
Sold prices
84 sales in CM1 carry a registration date inside the summer window, at a middle of £387,500. The current middle asking price is £385,000, so the two sit within £2,500 of each other.
Why there is no August, and why July is short. Land Registry data for CM1 runs 5 March to 24 July 2026, because registration lags about ten weeks. It covers June in full, July only to the 24th, and none of August.
Registered counts run 59 in March, 57 in April, 48 in May, 57 in June, then 27 in July cut off on the 24th. That last figure is a part-month of paperwork rather than a drop in sales, which is why it is not drawn as a line anywhere on this page.
The largest registered sales inside the window: 31 Frances Green, Chelmsford Garden CM1 6EG at £1,340,000 on 3 June; 2 Shardelow Avenue, Chelmsford Garden CM1 6BG at £1,165,000 on 3 July; Wood End, Cock Lane, Highwood CM1 3RB at £1,050,000 on 12 June. Three of the five biggest are Chelmsford Garden Village.
How to read this
Middle means the midpoint: half the homes sit above it and half below. It describes a market better than an average, which one very large house can pull about.
The window for anything dated here runs 1 June to 31 August 2026, and it is closed. Sold price records only reach 24 July.
Under offer is a live count on 3 September 2026 of homes showing as sold subject to contract. No portal records the date the flag went on, so nobody can turn it into a tally of the summer.
Days on the market here is counted for each listing on its own. The figure some tools publish for this is months of inventory multiplied out into days, which measures stock against sales rate rather than how long a sale takes. It is not used on this page.
Sectors, not neighbourhoods. CM1 has six live sectors and no CM1 5. The names describe the settlements each one mostly covers, taken from the addresses. They are not wards or parishes.
PDF, ten pages. The district picture, every sector, price per square foot with the type splits, the four-year trend, time on the market, the listing mix and the registered sales, laid out to print.
Our own listings
The figures above cover every agent's stock in the district. These two are ours, both in Roxwell, and both in CM1 4, the sector with the highest median asking price in the outcode.
Built in 1796 and partially Grade II listed, with an inglenook fireplace, exposed beams and a walled courtyard garden. Chelmsford is a short drive from the village.
See the full listing on muvin.co.uk
A Grade II listed cottage with two double bedrooms, an en-suite to the principal bedroom and a rear garden backing onto open farmland. Offered chain free.
See the full listing on muvin.co.ukPrices and availability as shown on muvin.co.uk on 3 September 2026.
Your own home
These numbers describe 632 other homes. Yours has its own size, its own condition and its own street, and in a district where the rate per square foot runs from £337 to £477 depending on where you stand in it, those things decide the price. If you are weighing up a move in Chelmsford, ask and we will come and give you a figure for your own address, with the homes it is built on set out beside it.
Courtney Heelis has your name, your address and your number, and she will be in touch to arrange a time.
A message to her should also have opened in your email program, already filled in. If nothing opened, or you would rather chase it yourself, email [email protected] or call 01279 600567.