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Dovercourt market report CO12 4, Harwich
The standing CO12 4 (Dovercourt) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,618 HM Land Registry entries for CO12 4 (Harwich), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CO12 4 (Harwich) came in at £226,500, out of 70 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £232,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,980 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,618 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CO12 4 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 4 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 CO12 4 homes really sell for
70 sales were registered in CO12 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £226,500. The mean works out at £232,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in CO12 4
Per square metre, CO12 4 homes have averaged around £2,980 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CO12 4 21% below the country at large.
CO12 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £226,500 | £226,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 189 |
| 2024 | £253,800 | £269,842 | 212 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 127 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 203 |
| 2021 | £210,500 | £266,520 | 214 |
| 2020 | £196,500 | £254,963 | 158 |
| 2019 | £178,000 | £233,315 | 145 |
| 2018 | £175,500 | £233,945 | 224 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 230 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 218 |
| 2015 | £146,000 | £206,298 | 188 |
| 2014 | £139,000 | £197,196 | 220 |
| 2013 | £126,500 | £182,021 | 168 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 128 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 138 |
| 2010 | £131,500 | £206,226 | 141 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 173 |
| 2008 | £141,200 | £231,457 | 124 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 234 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 258 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 208 |
| 2004 | £123,500 | £224,300 | 288 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 224 |
| 2002 | £86,000 | £161,808 | 331 |
| 2001 | £72,800 | £139,954 | 346 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 310 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 270 |
| 1998 | £43,200 | £87,202 | 274 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 222 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 194 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 189 |
In cash terms the typical CO12 4 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £226,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 160%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO12 4 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 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.4% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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
How many homes change hands
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, 70 sales completed in CO12 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 275 sales a year before the financial crisis and 160 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 rental side of CO12 4
CO12 4 falls under Tendring, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,051 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £226,500 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 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.
How CO12 4 trades
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: CO12 4 (Dovercourt)
How much did a house sell for in CO12 4 (Dovercourt)?
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Where do CO12 4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CO12's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 76 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO12 district, not just CO12 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 CO12 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.
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%) | — | — |
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 CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
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 3 | £210,000 | 47 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CO12 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO12 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO12 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO12 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CO12 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CO12 4.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO12 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO12 4 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.
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.