A house in Takeley and Little Canfield typically sells for about £440,000. Terraces go for about £379,000 and semis for about £385,000. Detached houses go for over £600,000. Almost everything for sale is a house with a garden, and there are hardly any flats to bring the average down. The village is priced like the commuter belt, because it is part of it.
The Land Registry recorded 53 sales in the year to May 2026, at a typical price of about £440,000. Detached houses made up the biggest group, 23 sales at around £610,000. There were 17 terraced sales at about £379,000 and 11 semis at about £385,000. With so little between a terrace and a semi, the extra wall is close to free. The jump from there to detached is over £200,000, and the detached houses still made up the largest share of sales.
Prices have barely moved. The official house price index for the wider area rose 1.3% in the year to May 2026, to an average of about £481,000, which is close to standing still once a buyer has paid stamp duty and the conveyancer. Flats fell 1.8% over the same year, to about £207,000. Flats are rare enough here that this only affects the few buyers looking for one.
Council tax reflects the size of the houses. The most common band is E, and only 12% of homes are in bands A or B. Uttlesford charges about £2,330 a year for a band D property, so most homes here, being band E or above, pay more than that. Valuation-list bands follow the house, and a buyer should look up the exact address on the Valuation Office Agency's list to confirm the band. Buyers often find out the hard way that a four-bed extension also bumped the bill.
Renting costs less each month and builds no equity. Across the whole of Uttlesford, the typical private rent was about £1,280 a month as of April 2026, an average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index that includes cheaper parts of the district. By size, the council-wide average is about £900 for a one-bed, £1,140 for a two-bed, £1,430 for a three-bed and £2,030 for four bedrooms or more. The Office for National Statistics publishes no studio or room rents for the area.
Local incomes go a long way towards those prices. Modelled gross household income, before tax, averaged about £70,500 in the financial year to March 2023. That is a couple's income from a few years ago, and the mortgage gets paid from what is left after tax. A household earning that much can afford a terrace or a semi here. A detached house usually takes equity from a previous home.
For the 83% of recent sales that could be matched to a floor area on an energy certificate, the median price was about £4,280 per square metre, and the typical home measured about 109 square metres. That is a family-sized house at commuter-belt rates. The newer estates make up much of what sells, and new-build space costs the same per metre as old space without the beams.
The bedroom mix explains the prices. At the 2021 census, 43% of homes had four bedrooms or more, 30% had three, 22% had two and 6% had one. A first-time buyer looking for a one-bed has about one home in seventeen to choose from, and most of those are rented. Meanwhile the four-bed estates fill up with families who wanted a garden and found one with a flight path.
Takeley and Little Canfield is middling on cost. It is fair value if you need four bedrooms and a short drive to the airport, and a stretch for anyone hoping to start with something small.