That is the middle of 111 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 4.9 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.
111 homes sold in three years: 46 detached houses, 39 semi-detached houses, 23 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£500K
median sale · 46 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£435K–£673K
Last 12 months
£540K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£397K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£330K–£433K
Last 12 months
£350K13 sold
Terraced houses£375K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£320K–£435K
Last 12 months
£385K11 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 41% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses41%
Semi-detached houses35%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes3%
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 Thaxted’s homes sold for between £345K and £528K
One sale in ten was under £300K and one in ten over £740K. 3% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £425,000, sits in the £400–500K band
111 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £82,000 in 1995 to £405,000 in the last 12 months (£373,865 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
37 sales in the last 12 months, against 100 in 2015, the busiest year, and 31 in 2023. Sales fell by 25% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 32% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Thaxted costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Thaxted, 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
£100K
£190K
£287K
£346K
£430K
£476K
£540K
Semi-detached houses
£81K
£137K
£195K
£222K
£300K
£355K
£350K
Terraced houses
£64K
£123K
£199K
£228K
£293K
£395K
£385K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 56% in 2015
215 new homes have been sold in Thaxted since 1995; the share peaked at 56% in 2015.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.8% sold leasehold in Thaxted. 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
Newbiggen Street is Thaxted’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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
Newbiggen Street
CM6
14
£400,000
Mixed
2
Wedow Road
CM6
8
£342,000
Mixed
3
Bellrope Meadow
CM6
6
£591,500
Mostly detached houses
4
Guelphs Lane
CM6
6
£446,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Burns Way
CM6
6
£430,750
Mixed
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
Thaxted is the 25th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Thaxted is in the middle of Essex’s 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 Thaxted
What is the average house price in Thaxted?
The median home in Thaxted sold for £425,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 111 standard sales (£405,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £500,000, semi-detached houses £397,000 and terraced houses £375,000.
Are house prices going up in Thaxted?
The median was £400,000 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£430,000), and £405,000 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 Thaxted each year?
37 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 54 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Thaxted expensive for Essex?
Thaxted is the 25th 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.
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