A typical home in Maldon sells for about £347,000. A detached house runs to roughly half a million. A flat comes in under £220,000. The semi is the house most people end up buying. For a market town on an estuary within reach of Chelmsford, that is a price most working households can still get to.
In the Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026, 286 homes sold in Maldon at a typical price of about £347,000. Detached houses went for around £500,000 across 81 sales, semis for £350,000 across 102, terraces for £300,000 across 73, and flats for £216,000. Only 30 flats sold all year, so the flat figure is the opinion of a fairly small crowd.
The house-price index for the Maldon area put the average home at about £385,000 in May 2026, up about 2% on a year earlier and down about 1% in the latest month. Over five years the index has risen about 14%. Flats went the other way, down about 2% over the year. Flat owners took a small dent while houses took a small rise, which is roughly as dramatic as Maldon's market gets.
Band C is the most common council tax band in Maldon, and 23% of homes are in bands A or B. The band D bill is about £2,328 a year, band A about £1,552 and band H about £4,657. Band D is the figure everyone quotes, and most homes in town are a band below it.
Across the Maldon local authority area, typical private rent was about £1,150 a month in April 2026, up 8% on a year earlier. That figure is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, covering the whole district, villages included. By size, a one-bed averages about £805 a month, a two-bed £1,044, a three-bed £1,258 and a four-bed or larger £1,931. At that top figure, a family renting a four-bed is paying the sort of money that turns tenants into buyers fairly quickly.
Household income across Maldon was about £61,000 a year before tax, as modelled by the Office for National Statistics for the financial year to March 2023 and averaged across the area. Against a typical sale of about £347,000, that puts the average home within reach of a two-income household with a deposit, and further off for anyone on one wage. The income figure is three years old and comes before the tax office has had its share, so the real stretch is a little longer than it looks.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 94% of the year's total, the median price was about £4,300 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is 81 square metres. Detached houses and flats both feed the same median, so it is a measure of the town's general going rate and says little about any one street.
The 2021 Census counts 39% of Maldon households in three-bedroom homes, 25% in two-bedroom homes, 25% with four or more and 11% in one-bedroom homes. The three-bed is the town's standard unit, and it lines up with that 81 square metre floor area. Big family houses and modest two-beds come in at exactly the same share, so the town has room both for the household that is growing and the one whose children have left.
Maldon is good value for what it is: a historic estuary town where a three-bed semi costs about the town's typical price and the market has drifted gently upward. Not cheap, but well within reach for the buyers it attracts.