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Colchester market report CO1 1
The standing CO1 1 (Colchester) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,617 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO1 1 (Colchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: 44 registered 2026 sales put the CO1 1 (Colchester) median at £231,500, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £243,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,617 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CO1 1 is one sector of CO1 (Colchester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CO1 1 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.
What a home in CO1 1 sells for
Take the 44 registered 2026 sales in CO1 1 and the middle price, the median, is £231,500. The mean lands at £243,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CO1 1
Per square metre, CO1 1 homes have averaged around £3,600 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 CO1 1 19% below the national figure.
CO1 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £231,500 | £231,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £256,500 | £262,634 | 100 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 99 |
| 2023 | £232,000 | £254,911 | 112 |
| 2022 | £233,800 | £274,157 | 208 |
| 2021 | £228,500 | £289,310 | 177 |
| 2020 | £173,000 | £224,471 | 81 |
| 2019 | £187,500 | £245,768 | 112 |
| 2018 | £179,000 | £238,610 | 148 |
| 2017 | £191,200 | £260,778 | 136 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 207 |
| 2015 | £147,000 | £207,711 | 153 |
| 2014 | £157,000 | £222,732 | 149 |
| 2013 | £164,000 | £235,980 | 117 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 108 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 84 |
| 2010 | £148,200 | £232,416 | 110 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 125 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 111 |
| 2007 | £157,500 | £267,164 | 164 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 171 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 121 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 157 |
| 2003 | £133,200 | £245,387 | 222 |
| 2002 | £106,000 | £199,438 | 251 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 196 |
| 2000 | £70,600 | £138,553 | 202 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 208 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 149 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 178 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 115 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical CO1 1 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £231,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 137%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CO1 1 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 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.7% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in CO1 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the CO1 1 market
This is a thin market: 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Rents around CO1 1
The local authority for CO1 1 is Colchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,211 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £829 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,819, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Colchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, which against the £231,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on CO1 1 (Colchester)
How much did a house sell for in CO1 1 (Colchester)?
Are property prices falling in CO1 1 (Colchester)?
Is CO1 1 (Colchester) a good place to buy a house?
Are CO1 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in CO1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 95 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO1 district, not just CO1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
46% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Magdalen Street, Colchester Town Centre, Colchester, CO1, Colchester
- St. Peters Street, Colchester
- Edward Paxman Gardens, Colchester
"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 CO1 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: CO prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, 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 | — | £315,000 | £430,000 (+37%) | £625,000 (+45%) | £865,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £285,000 (+16%) | £335,000 (+18%) | £420,000 (+25%) | £565,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £225,000 | £255,000 (+13%) | £299,995 (+18%) | £381,000 (+27%) | £507,500 (+33%) |
| Flat | £150,000 | £190,000 (+27%) | £287,500 (+51%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CO1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO1 2 | £230,000 | 68 |
Zoom out to the full CO1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CO1 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO1 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CO1 1.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CO1 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO1 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.