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Lexden market report CO3 4, Colchester

The standing CO3 4 (Lexden) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,491 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO3 4 (Colchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the typical home in CO3 4 (Colchester) sold for £372,500 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £396,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,150 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,491 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

CO3 4 is one sector of CO3 (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.

The going rate for a home in CO3 4

In the CO3 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £372,500, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £396,400, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

What a square metre costs in CO3 4

The last five years of sales put CO3 4 at roughly £4,150 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO3 4 sits 31% above the national market.

In cash terms the typical CO3 4 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £372,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 164%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+22.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.4%). 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

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 CO3 4

The register shows 27 CO3 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 125 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 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 CO3 4

CO3 4 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.

Set against the £372,500 median sold price, £1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.

The shape of the CO3 4 market

Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO3 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CO3, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

What people ask about CO3 4 (Lexden)

What happens to CO3 4 prices now?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

On the market in CO3 today

What another bedroom costs in CO

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in CO3

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CO3's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full CO3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO3 compares with its neighbours.

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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.