CM7 — Braintree
Braintree's CM7 postcode sits in Braintree. The board behind it is assembled from 30,535 sales over 32 years of actual sales in 8 areas.
Across the recorded period the typical CM7 sale went from £53,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026 — 5.9× growth. If you could time-travel once, aim for just before 2002 — prices moved +34.1% that year. The one to avoid was 2009: the median moved -11.1%, the roughest year in the local record.
Median sold price in CM7
| Year | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | £53,000 | 648 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | 1,218 |
| 2005 | £157,000 | 1,057 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | 679 |
| 2015 | £212,500 | 1,043 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | 806 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | 825 |
| 2026 | £315,000 | 161 |
The areas on the board
8 areas make up the board, weighted by sales activity:
- Braintree (CM7 3) (27% of local sales) — busiest streets: Cressing Road, Railway Street, Keeble Way
- Braintree (CM7 9) (22% of local sales) — busiest streets: Coggeshall Road, Bridport Way, Bradford Street
- Braintree (CM7 1) (21% of local sales) — busiest streets: Tortoiseshell Way, Notley Road, Mill Park Drive
- Braintree (CM7 2) (13% of local sales) — busiest streets: Nottage Crescent, Rayne Road, Malyon Close
- Braintree (CM7 5) (11% of local sales) — busiest streets: Church Street, Panfield Lane, Bailey Bridge Road
- Great Bardfield (3% of local sales) — busiest streets: Dunmow Road, Bridge Street, Braintree Road
- Finchingfield (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Vicarage Road, Wethersfield Road, The Green
- Bocking (2% of local sales) — busiest streets: Church Lane, Church Meadows, Samuel Courtauld Avenue
Reading about 2002 is easy; surviving 2009 is the game. Play the CM7 board.
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Prices are medians of real Land Registry sales. Street lists show street names only — never individual addresses. New to the game? Start with how to play.