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Colchester market report CO1
The CO1 (Colchester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 13,216 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO1 (Colchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CO1 (Colchester) home changed hands for £231,500 in 2026 (median of 112 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £243,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,420 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 13,216 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CO1 is the postcode district covering Colchester in Colchester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CO1 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.
CO1 sold prices: where the market stands
112 sales were registered in CO1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £231,500. The mean works out at £243,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
CO1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO1 costs about £3,420 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO1 runs 19% below it.
A typical CO1 home, priced year by year (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 | £231,500 | £231,500 | 112 |
| 2025 | £242,000 | £247,787 | 267 |
| 2024 | £229,500 | £244,006 | 264 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 275 |
| 2022 | £235,500 | £276,151 | 439 |
| 2021 | £221,800 | £280,827 | 418 |
| 2020 | £193,000 | £250,421 | 238 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 311 |
| 2018 | £193,500 | £257,939 | 351 |
| 2017 | £191,500 | £261,187 | 381 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 495 |
| 2015 | £162,200 | £229,189 | 440 |
| 2014 | £157,500 | £223,441 | 451 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 367 |
| 2012 | £150,500 | £221,517 | 338 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 281 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 297 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 305 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 285 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 588 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 617 |
| 2005 | £131,500 | £234,017 | 480 |
| 2004 | £134,200 | £243,733 | 550 |
| 2003 | £118,000 | £217,385 | 655 |
| 2002 | £97,000 | £182,505 | 667 |
| 2001 | £72,500 | £139,378 | 554 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 549 |
| 1999 | £52,700 | £105,028 | 582 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 458 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 496 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 400 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 305 |
In cash terms the typical CO1 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £231,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 160%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO1 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 (+33.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.0%). 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) | −4.3% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £400,000 against £154,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CO1
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 | £400,000 | 5 | 879 |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | 29 | 2,517 |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 40 | 5,391 |
| Flats | £154,000 | 38 | 4,429 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 239 CO1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 583 sales a year before the financial crisis and 271 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of CO1
For renting purposes CO1 sits in Colchester. The ONS average private rent there is £1,211 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £829 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,819 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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.
The shape of the CO1 market
CO1 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
Asked and answered: CO1 (Colchester)
Is CO1 (Colchester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO1 (Colchester)?
Are property prices falling in CO1 (Colchester)?
Will CO1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
What is for sale in CO1 right now
Everything above is what homes in CO1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 95 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% below the CO1 median sold price.
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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in CO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CO1 ranks 5 of 16 in the CO 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.
CO area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CO1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO1 1 | £231,500 | 44 |
| CO1 2 | £230,000 | 68 |
How CO1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 | £385,000 | +3% |
| CO6 | £385,000 | +1% |
| CO3 | £340,000 | +4% |
| CO8 | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 | £324,000 | -2% |
| CO9 | £323,500 | +8% |
| CO4 | £320,000 | +3% |
| CO13 | £320,000 | +0% |
| CO10 | £315,000 | +1% |
| CO11 | £310,000 | +0% |
| CO2 | £275,000 | +10% |
| CO14 | £266,500 | +9% |
| CO16 | £265,000 | -9% |
| CO15 | £236,000 | +7% |
| CO12 | £234,500 | +2% |
| CO1 (this report) | £231,500 | +4% |
Selling in CO1? 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 CO1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CO1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CO1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.