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Old Heath market report CO2 8, Colchester
The standing CO2 8 (Old Heath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,807 HM Land Registry entries for CO2 8 (Colchester), 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 typical home in CO2 8 (Colchester) sold for £280,000 in 2026, the median of 73 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £274,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,420 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,807 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CO2 8 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 8 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 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 73 registered 2026 sales in CO2 8 and the middle price, the median, is £280,000. The mean lands at £274,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in CO2 8
By floor space, homes in CO2 8 have sold for about £3,420 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO2 8 sits 2% below the national market.
CO2 8'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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 173 |
| 2024 | £264,000 | £280,686 | 134 |
| 2023 | £252,500 | £277,436 | 156 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 207 |
| 2021 | £238,300 | £301,719 | 224 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 175 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 203 |
| 2018 | £211,500 | £281,933 | 229 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 246 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 288 |
| 2015 | £158,000 | £223,254 | 271 |
| 2014 | £153,000 | £217,057 | 294 |
| 2013 | £144,000 | £207,202 | 203 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 237 |
| 2011 | £137,500 | £207,572 | 227 |
| 2010 | £141,500 | £221,908 | 136 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 228 |
| 2008 | £133,000 | £218,015 | 248 |
| 2007 | £158,000 | £268,012 | 455 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 462 |
| 2005 | £147,000 | £261,601 | 387 |
| 2004 | £132,700 | £241,009 | 336 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £213,700 | 323 |
| 2002 | £94,500 | £177,801 | 318 |
| 2001 | £73,500 | £141,300 | 279 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 238 |
| 1999 | £53,800 | £107,221 | 266 |
| 1998 | £48,100 | £97,093 | 230 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 245 |
| 1996 | £45,200 | £95,325 | 166 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 150 |
In cash terms the typical CO2 8 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 207%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO2 8 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.8%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in CO2 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 73 sales completed in CO2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 350 sales a year before the financial crisis and 149 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 8
CO2 8 falls under Colchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, which against the £280,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
Common questions on CO2 8 (Old Heath)
Is CO2 8 (Old Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO2 8 (Old Heath)?
Are property prices falling in CO2 8 (Old Heath)?
Where do CO2 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in CO2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 86 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO2 district, not just CO2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CO2 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 7 | £250,000 | 71 |
| 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 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CO2 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO2 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO2 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.