A typical house in Felsted sells for about half a million pounds, and that figure is the average of two markets that barely share a postcode. Detached houses go for nearly a million. Terraces change hands for under £200,000. Hardly anything changes hands at all. What a buyer pays here depends on which half of the village they can get into.
The Land Registry recorded six sales in Felsted in the year to early May 2026, at a median of about £518,000. Three were detached houses, with a median of £975,000. The other three were terraced homes, with a median of about £180,000. A market that small moves on single transactions, so one big house selling with a tennis court or one cottage going to probate can rewrite the headline overnight. With six sales a year, the useful check is the sold price of the actual house next door, since the village median is close to a coin toss.
The official house price index for the area, which covers far more than Felsted, put the average at about £481,000 in May 2026, up 1.3% on a year earlier. Flats went the other way, down 1.8% over the same twelve months. Neither move is dramatic. A rise of a little over one per cent is the housing market's version of a shrug, whatever the particulars say about strong local demand.
On the council tax list for the area, band G is the most common band, and only about 9% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home in Uttlesford pays about £2,334 a year. Band G is three rungs above that, which is where Felsted's typical home starts its year of direct debits.
Uttlesford's private rents average about £1,280 a month across the district, a mean from the Office for National Statistics index in April 2026 that takes in every town and village in the authority. By size, a one-bed averages about £899 a month, a two-bed about £1,136, a three-bed about £1,433 and a four-bed or larger about £2,028. Nobody publishes a figure for studios or rooms, and in a village this short of flats that is probably no great loss.
Household income across the wider area was modelled by the Office for National Statistics at about £70,000 a year, gross, for the financial year to March 2023. That is before tax and over three years old. Against a median sale price of about £518,000, it puts the typical house a long stretch from the typical income. The detached market is out of reach on salary alone, and the terraced end, the one place the numbers look reasonable, had three sales in a year.
The 2021 Census counted homes by bedroom: about 6% of Felsted's households have one bedroom, 28% two, 25% three and 41% four or more. The four-bed is the unit this village is built around. The one-bed is close to theoretical, and anyone hoping to start small and trade up will find most of the ladder starts in the middle.
Houses in Felsted are expensive and in short supply. A buyer who can stretch to the detached end gets what they pay for, but for most budgets the price is the hardest part of living here.