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Old Heath market report CO2 7, Colchester
The CO2 7 (Old Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,137 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CO2 7 (Colchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CO2 7 (Colchester) is £250,000, from 71 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £258,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,137 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO2 7 is one sector of CO2 (Colchester): 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 CO2 7 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.
CO2 7 sold prices: where the market stands
71 sales were registered in CO2 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £250,000. The mean works out at £258,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CO2 7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO2 7 costs about £3,450 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO2 7 sits 12% below the national market.
The price of a typical CO2 7 home, 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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 174 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 148 |
| 2023 | £261,000 | £286,775 | 157 |
| 2022 | £266,000 | £311,915 | 248 |
| 2021 | £235,500 | £298,173 | 284 |
| 2020 | £216,000 | £280,264 | 175 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 208 |
| 2018 | £220,500 | £293,931 | 246 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 330 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 349 |
| 2015 | £202,000 | £285,426 | 347 |
| 2014 | £174,500 | £247,559 | 394 |
| 2013 | £171,800 | £247,203 | 354 |
| 2012 | £167,000 | £245,803 | 233 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 167 |
| 2010 | £135,700 | £212,813 | 192 |
| 2009 | £140,200 | £225,373 | 176 |
| 2008 | £122,500 | £200,803 | 169 |
| 2007 | £167,200 | £283,618 | 266 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 353 |
| 2005 | £139,000 | £247,364 | 226 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 225 |
| 2003 | £112,500 | £207,252 | 169 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 190 |
| 2001 | £74,200 | £142,646 | 197 |
| 2000 | £66,900 | £131,291 | 238 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 207 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 181 |
| 1997 | £44,200 | £90,645 | 180 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 158 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical CO2 7 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO2 7 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 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−26.7%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
CO2 7 recorded 71 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 233 sales a year before the financial crisis and 160 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around CO2 7
The local authority for CO2 7 is Colchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,211 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £829 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,819, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Colchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,211 a month (£14,532 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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 kind of market CO2 7 is
Within CO2, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on CO2 7 (Old Heath)
Are property prices falling in CO2 7 (Old Heath)?
Is CO2 7 (Old Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO2 7 (Old Heath)?
Will CO2 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 CO2 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 86 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO2 district, not just CO2 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% 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 CO2 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 CO2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO2 0 | £425,000 | 16 |
| CO2 8 | £280,000 | 73 |
| CO2 9 | £305,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full CO2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CO2 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO2 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CO2 7.
Take it further
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See every individual CO2 7 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.