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Dovercourt market report CO12 5, Harwich
The CO12 5 (Dovercourt) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,485 HM Land Registry entries for CO12 5 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CO12 5 (Harwich) is £341,500, from 28 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £309,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,485 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO12 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CO12 (Harwich). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CO12 5 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 buyers actually paid in CO12 5
Across 28 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CO12 5 home went for £341,500. The mean is £309,900, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in CO12 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CO12 5 sales average about £3,300 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CO12 5 20% above the country at large.
CO12 5'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 | £341,500 | £341,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 61 |
| 2024 | £318,800 | £338,950 | 60 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 66 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 73 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 105 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 61 |
| 2019 | £277,500 | £363,736 | 64 |
| 2018 | £287,500 | £383,243 | 66 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 86 |
| 2016 | £232,000 | £324,570 | 80 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 73 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 70 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 51 |
| 2012 | £192,500 | £283,336 | 44 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 47 |
| 2010 | £193,000 | £302,674 | 53 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 57 |
| 2008 | £195,500 | £320,466 | 39 |
| 2007 | £222,000 | £376,574 | 68 |
| 2006 | £208,000 | £361,061 | 94 |
| 2005 | £202,000 | £359,479 | 67 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 103 |
| 2003 | £177,000 | £326,077 | 90 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 161 |
| 2001 | £119,800 | £230,309 | 212 |
| 2000 | £91,000 | £178,588 | 114 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 104 |
| 1998 | £63,200 | £127,574 | 88 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 75 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 62 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical CO12 5 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £341,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 173%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CO12 5 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 2003 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−13.7%). 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) | +5.1% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
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, 28 sales completed in CO12 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 114 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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 shape of the CO12 5 market
This is a thin market: 28 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. Within CO12, this sector trades 46% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around CO12 5
For renting purposes CO12 5 sits in Tendring. The ONS average private rent there is £1,051 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £757 a month here against £1,585 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £341,500 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
CO12 5 (Dovercourt): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CO12 5 (Dovercourt)?
Is CO12 5 (Dovercourt) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO12 5 (Dovercourt)?
Are CO12 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What you could buy in CO12 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 5: 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.
What another bedroom costs in CO
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CO area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CO12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO12 3 | £210,000 | 47 |
| CO12 4 | £226,500 | 70 |
Zoom out to the full CO12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CO12 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO12 5'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 CO12 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO12 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO12 5 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.
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.