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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Braintree | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £1,213 | £14,556 |
| 1 bedroom | £850 | £10,200 |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,099 | £13,188 |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,354 | £16,248 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £1,970 | £23,640 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£388k): a gross yield of about 3.8%.
| Great Notley & Black Notley | Braintree | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 13% | 15% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 11% | 12% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 1% | 2% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 7 | 26 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Braintree has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Great Notley & Black Notley | Braintree | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Great Notley & Black Notley | Braintree | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +0% | +6% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +1% | +6% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | -0.2 | 1.3 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Central Braintree | 4.2 | £275k | +37% | 33% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Witham | 3.9 | £287k | +59% | 14% | 0% |
| Braintree South | 3.9 | £294k | +50% | 17% | 0% |
| Bocking | 3.6 | £333k | +36% | 12% | 0% |
| Silver End & Stisted | 3.5 | £363k | +48% | 11% | 0% |
| Witham Town | 3.5 | £331k | +37% | 21% | 0% |
| Halstead Central & West | 3.2 | £286k | +54% | 19% | 0% |
| Bocking Churchstreet & Blackwater | 3.0 | £375k | +48% | 12% | 0% |
| Great Notley & Black Notley (this one) | 3.0 | £388k | +41% | 13% | 0% |
| North Witham | 3.0 | £376k | +56% | 10% | 0% |
| Braintree West & Rayne | 2.9 | £386k | +38% | 10% | 0% |
| Coggeshall & Kelvedon | 2.9 | £425k | +40% | 13% | 0% |
| Halstead East & Colnes | 2.6 | £376k | +40% | 12% | 0% |
| Hedingham, Gosfield & Greenstead Green | 2.6 | £360k | +41% | 13% | 0% |
| Witham South, Hatfield Peverel & White Notley | 2.6 | £443k | +48% | 15% | 0% |
| Steeple Bumpstead & Great Yeldham | 2.2 | £401k | +48% | 11% | 0% |
| Panfield, Finchingfield & Bardfield | 2.2 | £490k | +46% | 13% | 0% |
| Bures Hamlet, Maplestead & Belchamp | 2.0 | £475k | +51% | 13% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Chelmsford rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £426 · 1 bed £795 · 2 beds £950 · 3 beds £1,200 · 4 beds £1,450. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 6.3% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 3.69% · 3-bed vs semis 4.17%.