These are statistical positions, not causal claims. A high or low percentile says where the latest published value sits among comparable UK local authorities.

Sales12th

Annual sale-price growth

-1.2% · UK median 3.0%

Long lets77th

Average monthly rent

£1,442 / month · UK median £1,024 / month

Sales77th

Average sale price

£383,103 · UK median £272,210

Observed change

Two years in context

Average sale price+3.7%

Average monthly rent+14.4%

Release history

How the observation layer changed

This compares approved observation releases for Chelmsford. It describes movement in the evidence system, not verified additions to or removals from local housing stock.

Current allocation289

6 Sept 2026

Release-to-release changeNot available

Comparable history is still accumulating

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Property size

Average private rent by bedroom count

Official modelled monthly rent levels. The four-bedroom band includes properties with four or more bedrooms.

01£1,061

One bedroom

02£1,294

Two bedrooms

03£1,545

Three bedrooms

04£2,224

Four or more

Interpretation boundary

What the profile measures—and what it does not

Prices and sales

Mix-adjusted local price indices. Registered-sale counts show provisional source records and must not be read as final market activity.

Private rents

A modelled stock measure covering new and existing tenancies. Scotland and Northern Ireland use rental geographies that do not map directly to local-authority boundaries, so those values remain blank here.

Gross yield proxy

Average annual rent divided by average sale price for the same month. The source populations cover different homes and no costs are deducted.

Short-stay observations

289 aggregate records allocated from 9 intersecting observation cells. The value is not complete inventory or a count of unique dwellings.

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Source and citation

Suggested citation

Upgraded Intelligence (2026), “Chelmsford property profile”, UK Property Atlas release 2026.09, updated 6 Sept 2026.

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Monthly rent

Rent growth

Sale price

Price growth

Two-year price growth

Supply density

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