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Dovercourt market report CO12, Harwich
The CO12 (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: 14,196 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO12 (Harwich) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CO12 (Harwich) is £234,500, from 145 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £244,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 14,196 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO12 is the postcode district covering Harwich, Dovercourt, Parkeston in Harwich. 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 CO12 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.
Today's CO12 prices, from the sold record
Take the 145 registered 2026 sales in CO12 and the middle price, the median, is £234,500. The mean lands at £244,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CO12
By floor space, homes in CO12 have sold for about £2,930 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CO12 18% below the national figure.
CO12'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 | £234,500 | £234,500 | 145 |
| 2025 | £252,000 | £258,026 | 369 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 385 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 281 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 427 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 501 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 316 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 333 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 414 |
| 2017 | £182,000 | £248,230 | 463 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 457 |
| 2015 | £153,800 | £217,319 | 408 |
| 2014 | £142,500 | £202,161 | 482 |
| 2013 | £133,100 | £191,518 | 370 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 271 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 301 |
| 2010 | £138,000 | £216,420 | 305 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 329 |
| 2008 | £145,200 | £238,013 | 256 |
| 2007 | £149,500 | £253,594 | 497 |
| 2006 | £145,500 | £252,569 | 583 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 439 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 608 |
| 2003 | £108,000 | £198,962 | 502 |
| 2002 | £87,500 | £164,630 | 739 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 822 |
| 2000 | £62,500 | £122,656 | 649 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 634 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 595 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 530 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 416 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 369 |
In cash terms the typical CO12 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £234,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 170%, 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 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 2004 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £340,000 against £145,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, CO12
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 | £340,000 | 45 | 4,167 |
| Semi-detached | £234,500 | 35 | 3,959 |
| Terraced | £196,000 | 48 | 4,516 |
| Flats | £145,000 | 17 | 1,554 |
How many homes change hands in CO12
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
CO12 recorded 287 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 605 sales a year before the financial crisis and 321 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
The local authority for CO12 is Tendring, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, which against the £234,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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.
Reading the CO12 market
In its area's price order CO12 comes 15 of 16, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What people ask about CO12 (Dovercourt)
Are property prices falling in CO12 (Dovercourt)?
Is CO12 (Dovercourt) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO12 (Dovercourt)?
Are CO12 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CO12 right now
Everything above is what homes in CO12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 76 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the CO12 median sold price.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CO
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CO12 ranks 9 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 CO12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO12 3 | £210,000 | 47 |
| CO12 4 | £226,500 | 70 |
| CO12 5 | £341,500 | 28 |
How CO12 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 (this report) | £234,500 | +2% |
| CO1 | £231,500 | +4% |
Before you sell in CO12: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO12'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.
Take it further
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See every individual CO12 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.
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.