Houses in Doddinghurst cost around £620,000 in the middle of the market, and the middle of the market here has a drive and four bedrooms. Detached homes go for nearly £680,000. Semis go for around £510,000. Only about thirty houses sell in a year. The semi is the village's starter home.
The Land Registry recorded 30 sales in the year to the end of April 2026, at a median price of about £623,000. Of those, 18 were detached houses at a median of about £679,000, and 11 were semis at about £510,000. With 18 of the 30 sales detached, a semi is the cheapest house most buyers here will be offered.
The official house price index for the wider area shows prices up about 2% in the twelve months to May 2026. Flat prices were close to unchanged, down by less than one percent. Flat prices barely moved, and so few flats are for sale in Doddinghurst that it hardly matters.
Band E is the most common council-tax band in Doddinghurst, and only about 5% of homes are in bands A or B. Brentwood's band D bill comes to about £2,260 a year. Band D is the figure people compare bills by, and most homes here are a band above it.
For renters, the Office for National Statistics puts typical private rent across Brentwood borough at about £1,610 a month as of April 2026. That figure is a mean from its rent index, not the middle of the listings on offer. By size, the borough averages about £1,100 for one bedroom, £1,390 for two, £1,700 for three and £2,400 for four or more. No figure exists for studios or single rooms.
Gross household income in the area, before tax, was about £70,000 according to the Office for National Statistics' model for the financial year to March 2023, so it is a few years out of date. Even the semi at £510,000 is a stretch on that income, and the detached house is out of reach on a salary alone. The people who manage it are mostly spending the equity from their last house, not this year's pay.
Of the sales the Land Registry could match to a floor area on an energy certificate, 12 in all and 40% of the total, the median price came to about £5,000 a square metre. The typical floor area behind those sales was 114 square metres. A house's energy certificate is public and gives its floor area, which is the quickest way to measure an asking price against that local figure.
The 2021 census shows how big the homes are. About 41% have four or more bedrooms, 40% have three, 16% have two and 4% have one. Most of what comes up has four bedrooms, and anyone looking for a one-bed is looking for something the village hardly built.
Houses in Doddinghurst are expensive. The typical home is large and priced to match, and very little comes up for anyone buying on a single salary.