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Lexden market report CO3 9, Colchester
The CO3 9 (Lexden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,007 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CO3 9 (Colchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in CO3 9 (Colchester) sold for £322,500 in 2026, the median of 26 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £322,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,960 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,007 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CO3 9 is a single group of streets within CO3 (Colchester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CO3 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.
Today's CO3 9 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CO3 9 is £322,500, taken from 26 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £322,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in CO3 9
Per square metre, CO3 9 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO3 9 sits 13% above the national market.
The price of a typical CO3 9 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £322,500 | £322,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 79 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 119 |
| 2023 | £384,000 | £421,922 | 118 |
| 2022 | £361,200 | £423,548 | 124 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 129 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 63 |
| 2019 | £286,000 | £374,878 | 75 |
| 2018 | £282,000 | £375,911 | 77 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 96 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 95 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 81 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 93 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 83 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 62 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 69 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 65 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 61 |
| 2008 | £174,500 | £286,042 | 60 |
| 2007 | £183,500 | £311,267 | 118 |
| 2006 | £181,000 | £314,193 | 126 |
| 2005 | £166,400 | £296,125 | 105 |
| 2004 | £156,800 | £284,779 | 108 |
| 2003 | £167,500 | £308,576 | 106 |
| 2002 | £127,500 | £239,890 | 109 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 123 |
| 2000 | £83,500 | £163,869 | 82 |
| 1999 | £76,500 | £152,461 | 114 |
| 1998 | £66,500 | £134,235 | 114 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 123 |
| 1996 | £57,200 | £120,632 | 93 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical CO3 9 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £322,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, 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 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO3 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 2002 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−14.6%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 9
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CO3 9 recorded 26 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 93 sales a year recently, against 110 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 CO3 9 is
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO3 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around CO3 9
The local authority for CO3 9 is Colchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £322,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,211 a month (£14,532 a year) works out at a 4.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
CO3 9 (Lexden): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CO3 9 (Lexden)?
Are property prices falling in CO3 9 (Lexden)?
Is CO3 9 (Lexden) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CO3 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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
The live side of the market holds 123 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO3 district, not just CO3 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in CO
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. 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.
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 CO3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO3 0 | £335,000 | 63 |
| CO3 3 | £321,200 | 50 |
| CO3 4 | £372,500 | 27 |
| CO3 8 | £325,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full CO3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CO3 9? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO3 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CO3 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO3 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CO3 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.
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.