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Lexden market report CO3 8, Colchester
The CO3 8 (Lexden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,944 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO3 8 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 35 registered 2026 sales put the CO3 8 (Colchester) median at £325,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £334,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,960 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,944 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CO3 8 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 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.
What a home in CO3 8 sells for
The CO3 8 median stands at £325,000 for 2026, built from 35 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £334,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in CO3 8
Per square metre, CO3 8 homes have averaged around £3,960 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO3 8 runs 14% above it.
CO3 8's median sold price, 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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £348,200 | £356,527 | 76 |
| 2024 | £354,600 | £377,013 | 94 |
| 2023 | £353,000 | £387,861 | 70 |
| 2022 | £359,000 | £420,968 | 86 |
| 2021 | £321,000 | £406,427 | 149 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 111 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 195 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 262 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 198 |
| 2016 | £287,000 | £401,516 | 91 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 84 |
| 2014 | £231,000 | £327,714 | 54 |
| 2013 | £255,000 | £366,920 | 52 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 9 |
| 2011 | £243,000 | £366,837 | 11 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 11 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 9 |
| 2008 | £224,500 | £368,003 | 10 |
| 2007 | £197,500 | £335,015 | 24 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 19 |
| 2005 | £196,000 | £348,801 | 20 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 51 |
| 2003 | £240,200 | £442,507 | 14 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 47 |
| 2001 | £142,000 | £272,988 | 55 |
| 2000 | £132,000 | £259,050 | 51 |
| 1999 | £127,500 | £254,101 | 27 |
| 1998 | £92,500 | £186,718 | 14 |
| 1997 | £84,000 | £172,267 | 7 |
| 1996 | £170,000 | £358,522 | 5 |
| 1995 | £73,000 | £158,691 | 3 |
In cash terms the typical CO3 8 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 105%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2003; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2003 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CO3 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 1996 (+132.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−50.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.2% |
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.
Sales activity in CO3 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 35 CO3 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 72 sales a year over the last five years against 35 before the financial crisis. 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.
The rental side of CO3 8
For renting purposes CO3 8 sits in Colchester. The ONS average private rent there is £1,211 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Reading the CO3 8 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about CO3 8 (Lexden)
How much did a house sell for in CO3 8 (Lexden)?
Are property prices falling in CO3 8 (Lexden)?
Is CO3 8 (Lexden) a good place to buy a house?
Are CO3 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CO3 now
Turning to what is actually available: 123 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO3 district, not just CO3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CO3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CO: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CO3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CO3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO3 0 | £335,000 | 63 |
| CO3 3 | £321,200 | 50 |
| CO3 4 | £372,500 | 27 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CO3 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO3 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO3 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO3 8 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 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CO3 8 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.