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Lexden market report CO3 0, Colchester
The CO3 0 (Lexden) 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: 5,144 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO3 0 (Colchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CO3 0 (Colchester) home changed hands for £335,000 in 2026 (median of 63 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £348,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,030 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,144 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CO3 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CO3 (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 CO3 0 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 CO3 0 prices, from the sold record
Take the 63 registered 2026 sales in CO3 0 and the middle price, the median, is £335,000. The mean lands at £348,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in CO3 0
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO3 0 costs about £4,030 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CO3 0 18% above the country at large.
CO3 0'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 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 135 |
| 2024 | £359,000 | £381,691 | 96 |
| 2023 | £357,000 | £392,256 | 119 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 135 |
| 2021 | £316,000 | £400,097 | 268 |
| 2020 | £313,700 | £407,032 | 160 |
| 2019 | £287,500 | £376,844 | 118 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 208 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 176 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 204 |
| 2015 | £238,800 | £337,424 | 136 |
| 2014 | £211,000 | £299,340 | 149 |
| 2013 | £202,800 | £291,809 | 164 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 141 |
| 2011 | £178,000 | £268,712 | 98 |
| 2010 | £187,500 | £294,048 | 98 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 119 |
| 2008 | £185,500 | £304,074 | 110 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 241 |
| 2006 | £193,000 | £335,023 | 213 |
| 2005 | £182,000 | £323,887 | 201 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 177 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 163 |
| 2002 | £121,000 | £227,660 | 176 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 203 |
| 2000 | £82,500 | £161,906 | 176 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 225 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 181 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 175 |
| 1996 | £58,500 | £123,374 | 159 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical CO3 0 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 180%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO3 0 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 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−7.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO3 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in CO3 0
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CO3 0 recorded 63 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 110 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.
Rents around CO3 0
For renting purposes CO3 0 sits in Colchester. The ONS average private rent there is £1,211 a month (May 2026). 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 £335,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
CO3 0 (Lexden): the questions that come up
Is CO3 0 (Lexden) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO3 0 (Lexden)?
Are property prices falling in CO3 0 (Lexden)?
Will CO3 0 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in CO3 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 123 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO3 district, not just CO3 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Maldon Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3
- Lexden Road, Lexden, Colchester, Essex, CO3
- Fountain Lane, Heckford Bridge, Colchester, Essex, CO3
"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 CO3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CO
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the CO area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CO3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO3 3 | £321,200 | 50 |
| CO3 4 | £372,500 | 27 |
| CO3 8 | £325,000 | 35 |
| CO3 9 | £322,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full CO3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CO3 0? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO3 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO3 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO3 0 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 CO3 0.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO3 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CO3 0 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.