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Old Heath market report CO2 9, Colchester
The CO2 9 (Old Heath) 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: 3,705 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO2 9 (Colchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CO2 9 (Colchester) came in at £305,500, out of 38 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £300,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,810 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,705 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CO2 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CO2 (Colchester). 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 CO2 9 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 9 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 38 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CO2 9 home went for £305,500. The mean is £300,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in CO2 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO2 9 costs about £3,810 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO2 9 runs 7% above it.
The price of a typical CO2 9 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,500 | £305,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £323,000 | £330,724 | 115 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 130 |
| 2023 | £342,500 | £376,324 | 130 |
| 2022 | £308,000 | £361,165 | 178 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 160 |
| 2020 | £242,500 | £314,649 | 79 |
| 2019 | £237,000 | £310,650 | 70 |
| 2018 | £252,500 | £336,587 | 115 |
| 2017 | £236,200 | £322,153 | 122 |
| 2016 | £223,800 | £313,098 | 124 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 122 |
| 2014 | £187,500 | £266,002 | 222 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 145 |
| 2012 | £182,000 | £267,881 | 128 |
| 2011 | £152,500 | £230,216 | 146 |
| 2010 | £153,000 | £239,943 | 150 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 58 |
| 2008 | £170,400 | £279,322 | 117 |
| 2007 | £174,000 | £295,152 | 177 |
| 2006 | £158,500 | £275,136 | 88 |
| 2005 | £144,000 | £256,262 | 107 |
| 2004 | £146,400 | £265,891 | 117 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 119 |
| 2002 | £109,000 | £205,083 | 105 |
| 2001 | £86,200 | £165,715 | 90 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 65 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 85 |
| 1998 | £70,500 | £142,309 | 114 |
| 1997 | £56,800 | £116,485 | 156 |
| 1996 | £54,100 | £114,094 | 96 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 37 |
In cash terms the typical CO2 9 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £305,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 193%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO2 9 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 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.0%). 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) | −5.4% | −7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The register shows 38 CO2 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 118 sales a year recently, against 109 a year before 2008. 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.
What kind of market CO2 9 is
This is a thin market: 38 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. Within CO2, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around CO2 9
CO2 9 falls under Colchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,211 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £829 a month here against £1,819 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £305,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
What people ask about CO2 9 (Old Heath)
Is CO2 9 (Old Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO2 9 (Old Heath)?
Are property prices falling in CO2 9 (Old Heath)?
Are CO2 9 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in CO2 today
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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 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 7 | £250,000 | 71 |
| CO2 8 | £280,000 | 73 |
Zoom out to the full CO2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CO2 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO2 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO2 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO2 9 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 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO2 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CO2 9 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.
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.