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Dovercourt market report CO12 3, Harwich
The CO12 3 (Dovercourt) 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: 5,093 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO12 3 (Harwich) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CO12 3 (Harwich) came in at £210,000, out of 47 registered, down 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £224,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,640 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,093 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CO12 3 is one sector of CO12 (Harwich): 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 CO12 3 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 CO12 3 sells for
The 2026 median for CO12 3 is £210,000, taken from 47 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £224,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
CO12 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO12 3 costs about £2,640 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, CO12 3 runs 26% below it.
CO12 3's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 119 |
| 2024 | £229,900 | £244,431 | 113 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 88 |
| 2022 | £242,000 | £283,773 | 151 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 182 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 97 |
| 2019 | £166,000 | £217,586 | 124 |
| 2018 | £177,500 | £236,611 | 124 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 147 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 159 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 147 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 192 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 151 |
| 2012 | £136,800 | £201,353 | 99 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 116 |
| 2010 | £128,000 | £200,737 | 111 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 99 |
| 2008 | £138,000 | £226,211 | 93 |
| 2007 | £138,000 | £234,086 | 195 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 231 |
| 2005 | £118,500 | £210,882 | 164 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 217 |
| 2003 | £97,200 | £179,066 | 188 |
| 2002 | £72,000 | £135,467 | 247 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 264 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 225 |
| 1999 | £48,000 | £95,661 | 260 |
| 1998 | £41,000 | £82,761 | 233 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 233 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 160 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical CO12 3 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 184%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO12 3 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 2021 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−15.3%). 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) | −4.5% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
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.
CO12 3 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 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.
Reading the CO12 3 market
This is a thin market: 47 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. 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. Against the CO12 district median, CO12 3 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around CO12 3
For renting purposes CO12 3 sits in Tendring. The ONS average private rent there is £1,051 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £757 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,585, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £210,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,051 a month (£12,612 a year) works out at a 6.0% 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.
What people ask about CO12 3 (Dovercourt)
Are property prices falling in CO12 3 (Dovercourt)?
Is CO12 3 (Dovercourt) a good place to buy a house?
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Where do CO12 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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 CO12 right now
The live side of the market holds 76 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO12 district, not just CO12 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 CO12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 CO12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CO12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO12 4 | £226,500 | 70 |
| CO12 5 | £341,500 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full CO12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CO12 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO12 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CO12 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO12 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO12 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.