That is the middle of 1,828 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Braintree’s sales are semi-detached houses
1,828 homes sold in three years: 422 detached houses, 585 semi-detached houses, 473 terraced houses and 348 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£430K
median sale · 422 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£378K–£500K
Last 12 months
£450K104 sold
New build
£455K
Semi-detached houses£325K
median sale · 585 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£293K–£360K
Last 12 months
£323K160 sold
New build
£375K
Terraced houses£280K
median sale · 473 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£255K–£307K
Last 12 months
£285K140 sold
Flats and maisonettes£171K
median sale · 348 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£150K–£200K
Last 12 months
£173K94 sold
New build
£238K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses23%
Semi-detached houses32%
Terraced houses26%
Flats and maisonettes19%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Braintree’s homes sold for between £248K and £375K
One sale in ten was under £171K and one in ten over £458K. 25% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £305,000, sits in the £300–400K band
1,828 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,950 in 1995 to £303,500 in the last 12 months (£255,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
498 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,299 in 2001, the busiest year, and 522 in 2008. Sales fell by 48% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 39% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Braintree costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Braintree, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£88K
£135K
£234K
£243K
£316K
£368K
£450K
Semi-detached houses
£53K
£82K
£162K
£171K
£218K
£272K
£323K
Terraced houses
£46K
£70K
£147K
£154K
£194K
£245K
£285K
Flats and maisonettes
£29K
£48K
£120K
£132K
£140K
£165K
£173K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 1.8% of sales in the last 12 months
4,498 new homes have been sold in Braintree since 1995; the share peaked at 39% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £425,000
against £299,000 for a home sold on, 42% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
20% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.6% sold leasehold in Braintree. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Cressing Road is Braintree’s busiest street, with 42 sales in three years
119 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 40 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Cressing Road
CM7
42
£295,500
Mixed
2
Coggeshall Road (CM7)
CM7
33
£312,500
Mixed
3
Notley Road
CM7
32
£265,000
Mixed
4
Mill Park Drive
CM7
31
£360,000
Mixed
5
Bran Field Way
CM7
31
£246,000
Mixed · new builds
6
Nottage Crescent
CM7
29
£171,000
Mixed
7
Panfield Lane
CM7
27
£325,000
Mixed
8
Church Street
CM7
27
£275,000
Mixed
9
Railway Street
CM7
26
£97,500
Mostly flats
10
Bradford Street
CM7
24
£271,250
Mixed
11
Keeble Way
CM7
22
£257,750
Mostly terraced houses
12
Marriott Way
CM7
20
£427,475
Mostly detached houses · new builds
13
Malyon Close
CM7
19
£170,000
Mostly flats
14
Edinburgh Gardens
CM7
18
£268,750
Mixed
15
Sorrell Avenue
CM7
17
£393,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
Dearest streets
London Road: £592,500
Braintree median£305K
London Road£593K
Church Meadows£525K
Coulson Gardens£525K
Grenadier Way£520K
Martingale Avenue£520K
Cheapest streets
Railway Street: £97,500
Braintree median£305K
Railway Street£98K
Falkland Court£107K
Mill Court£130K
Swan Side£155K
Station Approach£156K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 6.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Essex
Braintree is the 74th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Braintree is one of Essex’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Braintree
What is the average house price in Braintree?
The median home in Braintree sold for £305,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,828 standard sales (£303,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £430,000, semi-detached houses £325,000, terraced houses £280,000 and flats and maisonettes £171,000.
Are house prices going up in Braintree?
The median was £300,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£307,500), and £303,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Braintree each year?
498 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 703 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Braintree?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: London Road (CM7, £592,500), Church Meadows (CM7, £525,000) and Coulson Gardens (CM7, £525,000).
How much does a new build cost in Braintree?
New homes sold for a median £425,000 over three years, against £299,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 9.7% of sales.
Is Braintree expensive for Essex?
Braintree is the 73rd most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Essex by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.