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Harlow market report CM18
The standing CM18 (Harlow) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 9,901 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM18 (Harlow) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CM18 (Harlow) is £325,000, from 116 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £336,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,910 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,901 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CM18 is a postcode district covering Harlow in Harlow. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CM18 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.
CM18 sold prices: where the market stands
116 sales were registered in CM18 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £325,000. The mean works out at £336,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
CM18 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CM18 homes have averaged around £3,910 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CM18 14% above the national figure.
A typical CM18 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 116 |
| 2025 | £321,800 | £329,495 | 284 |
| 2024 | £302,000 | £321,088 | 229 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 210 |
| 2022 | £317,000 | £371,719 | 278 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 316 |
| 2020 | £277,500 | £360,062 | 249 |
| 2019 | £268,500 | £351,939 | 294 |
| 2018 | £263,500 | £351,250 | 280 |
| 2017 | £262,000 | £357,342 | 312 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 306 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 309 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 341 |
| 2013 | £161,000 | £231,663 | 251 |
| 2012 | £153,000 | £225,197 | 175 |
| 2011 | £153,000 | £230,971 | 203 |
| 2010 | £151,000 | £236,807 | 161 |
| 2009 | £147,500 | £237,108 | 183 |
| 2008 | £161,500 | £264,733 | 200 |
| 2007 | £157,900 | £267,842 | 510 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £253,437 | 448 |
| 2005 | £142,000 | £252,703 | 346 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 457 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 466 |
| 2002 | £103,000 | £193,794 | 467 |
| 2001 | £83,000 | £159,563 | 391 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 415 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 404 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 368 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 378 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 298 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 256 |
In cash terms the typical CM18 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 205%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM18 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 2000 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.7%). 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) | +1.0% | −1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 62% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £650,000 against £187,500 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CM18
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £650,000 | 7 | 618 |
| Semi-detached | £420,000 | 12 | 1,096 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 80 | 6,114 |
| Flats | £187,500 | 17 | 2,073 |
How many homes change hands in CM18
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 217 sales completed in CM18. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 438 sales a year before the financial crisis and 223 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.
Rents around CM18
CM18 falls under Harlow, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,517 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,019 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,196 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Harlow
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £1,517 a month is £18,204 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market CM18 is
In its area's price order CM18 comes 22 of 25, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: CM18 (Harlow)
Are property prices falling in CM18 (Harlow)?
Is CM18 (Harlow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM18 (Harlow)?
What happens to CM18 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in CM18 today
Everything above is what homes in CM18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 284 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the CM18 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CM18 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in CM
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CM18 ranks 3 of 25 in the CM area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, CM area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CM18, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM18 6 | £330,000 | 51 |
| CM18 7 | £320,000 | 65 |
How CM18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CM area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CM4 | £808,200 | +26% |
| CM13 | £530,000 | +12% |
| CM16 | £527,500 | -8% |
| CM15 | £510,000 | -1% |
| CM5 | £500,000 | +4% |
| CM12 | £459,500 | -5% |
| CM11 | £455,000 | -1% |
| CM21 | £450,000 | +13% |
| CM22 | £445,000 | -8% |
| CM6 | £432,500 | +1% |
| CM23 | £422,000 | +0% |
| CM24 | £420,000 | +1% |
| CM3 | £415,000 | +0% |
| CM14 | £411,200 | +3% |
| CM77 | £402,500 | +6% |
| CM17 | £400,000 | +3% |
| CM1 | £398,000 | +8% |
| CM9 | £375,000 | +9% |
| CM2 | £370,000 | +4% |
| CM19 | £354,500 | +18% |
| CM0 | £350,000 | +0% |
| CM18 (this report) | £325,000 | +16% |
| CM20 | £325,000 | +10% |
| CM7 | £320,000 | +7% |
Selling in CM18? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM18, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM18 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM18 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM18.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM18 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CM18 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.