A typical house in Silver End costs about £350,000, and that buys a family-sized home on a plot with somewhere to park. Semis make up most of the sales. Three bedrooms is the norm. Prices have barely moved in a year. That is ordinary Essex money for a village that began as a factory owner's plan to house his whole workforce.
The Land Registry recorded 107 sales in the Silver End area in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £350,000. Semi-detached houses were the biggest group, with 49 sales at a median of about £333,000. The 35 detached houses that sold went for about £467,000, and the 19 terraces for about £290,000. Only four flats sold, at a median of about £187,500. Francis Crittall built these streets so his workers could walk to the factory. The factory closed in 2006, and the homes now sell at prices a factory wage was never meant to cover.
The official house price index for the area fell 0.4% in the twelve months to May 2026, which is close enough to flat that neither buyers nor sellers can point to it with a straight face. Flats did worse, down 3.5% over the same year. With four flat sales a year in the village itself, that county-level dip says more about Braintree's flats than Silver End's. For houses, nobody is getting rich or getting burnt on a move that size.
Most homes are in council-tax Band C, and 28% are in bands A or B. Braintree District Council charges about £2,280 a year for a Band D home, the figure to compare against what you pay now. A detached house at the top of the village's price range will usually sit in a higher band than that, and the bill goes up with it.
Across the Braintree district as a whole, the Office for National Statistics puts a typical private rent at about £1,230 a month as of April 2026. That is an average across the whole district, so village semis and town-centre flats are all in it. Broken down by size, a one-bed averages about £861, a two-bed about £1,114, a three-bed about £1,372, and four bedrooms or more about £2,002.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £59,600 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the Silver End area. Against a typical price of £350,000, a three-bed semi is a stretch on one income and workable on two. Detached houses need either a large deposit or a household that has already climbed the ladder somewhere else.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 88% of the total, the median price works out at about £3,860 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is 89 square metres, the size of an ordinary three-bed family house. If the house you want is one of the white flat-roofed originals on Francis Way or Silver Street, get a surveyor to look closely at the roof and the steel window frames. Those two features are what make the houses special, and they are also where the repair bills turn up.
The 2021 census found three bedrooms in 46% of homes, two in 28%, four or more in 21% and one in 5%. One-bed buyers have very few homes to choose from. Three-bed buyers have most of the village.
For family houses, Silver End is good value: a semi with room to grow costs a sensible sum, and prices have been steady for a year.