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Greenstead market report CO4 0, Colchester
The CO4 0 (Greenstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,589 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CO4 0 (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 2026 median for CO4 0 (Colchester) is £317,000, from 40 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £310,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,589 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CO4 0 is a single group of streets within CO4 (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 CO4 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.
What buyers actually paid in CO4 0
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CO4 0 home went for £317,000. The mean is £310,400, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in CO4 0
The last five years of sales put CO4 0 at roughly £3,740 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, CO4 0 sits 11% above the national market.
CO4 0's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £317,000 | £317,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £328,000 | £335,843 | 89 |
| 2024 | £306,500 | £325,872 | 82 |
| 2023 | £308,000 | £338,417 | 73 |
| 2022 | £326,200 | £382,507 | 112 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 176 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 79 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 107 |
| 2018 | £269,000 | £358,582 | 88 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 89 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 103 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 98 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 143 |
| 2013 | £179,500 | £258,283 | 96 |
| 2012 | £183,500 | £270,089 | 88 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 91 |
| 2010 | £173,000 | £271,309 | 95 |
| 2009 | £162,500 | £261,220 | 83 |
| 2008 | £166,000 | £272,109 | 94 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 204 |
| 2006 | £172,500 | £299,438 | 151 |
| 2005 | £168,800 | £300,396 | 112 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 136 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 156 |
| 2002 | £119,000 | £223,897 | 145 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 134 |
| 2000 | £87,200 | £171,130 | 118 |
| 1999 | £78,400 | £156,247 | 128 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 114 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 144 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 130 |
| 1995 | £56,800 | £123,474 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical CO4 0 home went from £56,800 in 1995 to £317,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 157%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO4 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 2002 (+19.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−5.6%). 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) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CO4 0
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in CO4 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 a year over the last five. 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 tenants pay around CO4 0
For renting purposes CO4 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 £317,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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 kind of market CO4 0 is
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO4 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: CO4 0 (Greenstead)
How much did a house sell for in CO4 0 (Greenstead)?
Are property prices falling in CO4 0 (Greenstead)?
Is CO4 0 (Greenstead) a good place to buy a house?
Are CO4 0 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in CO4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 138 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO4 district, not just CO4 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Orchard Gardens, Ipswich Road, Colche...
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- Viceroy Close, Colchester
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 CO4 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CO4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO4 3 | £285,000 | 51 |
| CO4 5 | £332,000 | 93 |
| CO4 6 | £380,000 | 29 |
| CO4 9 | £295,000 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full CO4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CO4 0? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO4 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO4 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO4 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual CO4 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.