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Harlow market report CM18 7
The CM18 7 (Harlow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,077 registered sales in CM18 7 (Harlow) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CM18 7 (Harlow) is £320,000, from 65 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £322,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,077 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CM18 7 is a single group of streets within CM18 (Harlow), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM18 7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in CM18 7
Take the 65 registered 2026 sales in CM18 7 and the middle price, the median, is £320,000. The mean lands at £322,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CM18 7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put CM18 7 at roughly £3,880 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CM18 7 12% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CM18 7 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 124 |
| 2024 | £297,500 | £316,304 | 119 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 100 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 138 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 154 |
| 2020 | £302,000 | £391,851 | 147 |
| 2019 | £273,500 | £358,493 | 156 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 149 |
| 2017 | £257,500 | £351,204 | 178 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 149 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 143 |
| 2014 | £176,000 | £249,687 | 163 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 121 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 93 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 92 |
| 2010 | £153,000 | £239,943 | 89 |
| 2009 | £146,000 | £234,696 | 73 |
| 2008 | £153,000 | £250,799 | 99 |
| 2007 | £154,700 | £262,414 | 246 |
| 2006 | £143,000 | £248,230 | 230 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 174 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 229 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £213,700 | 246 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 259 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 205 |
| 2000 | £68,200 | £133,843 | 222 |
| 1999 | £58,800 | £117,185 | 220 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 197 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 210 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 151 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical CM18 7 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 204%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM18 7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−10.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in CM18 7
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 65 sales completed in CM18 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 226 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market CM18 7 is
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around CM18 7
The local authority for CM18 7 is Harlow, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,517 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,019 a month here against £2,196 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Harlow
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,517 a month (£18,204 a year) works out at a 5.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
CM18 7 (Harlow): the questions that come up
Is CM18 7 (Harlow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM18 7 (Harlow)?
Are property prices falling in CM18 7 (Harlow)?
Will CM18 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in CM18 today
The live side of the market holds 284 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM18 district, not just CM18 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CM18 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £417,500 | £550,000 (+32%) | £785,000 (+43%) | £1,137,500 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £370,000 (+14%) | £447,500 (+21%) | £575,000 (+28%) | £780,000 (+36%) |
| Terraced | £292,000 | £335,000 (+15%) | £380,000 (+13%) | £492,500 (+30%) | £700,000 (+42%) |
| Flat | £202,000 | £280,000 (+39%) | £385,000 (+38%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CM18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM18 6 | £330,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full CM18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CM18 7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CM18 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM18 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM18 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.