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Greenstead market report CO4 5, Colchester
The CO4 5 (Greenstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,345 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CO4 5 (Colchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CO4 5 (Colchester) is £332,000, from 93 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £350,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,345 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO4 5 is one sector of CO4 (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.
Where CO4 5 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.
The going rate for a home in CO4 5
Across 93 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CO4 5 home went for £332,000. The mean is £350,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CO4 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO4 5 costs about £3,740 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO4 5 runs 16% above it.
CO4 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £332,000 | £332,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 205 |
| 2024 | £330,000 | £350,858 | 208 |
| 2023 | £328,000 | £360,392 | 215 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 251 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 336 |
| 2020 | £307,500 | £398,988 | 211 |
| 2019 | £279,000 | £365,702 | 258 |
| 2018 | £272,500 | £363,248 | 267 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 316 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 413 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 402 |
| 2014 | £207,500 | £294,375 | 333 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 326 |
| 2012 | £195,500 | £287,752 | 360 |
| 2011 | £198,200 | £299,206 | 322 |
| 2010 | £186,200 | £292,010 | 334 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 308 |
| 2008 | £176,500 | £289,321 | 319 |
| 2007 | £177,000 | £300,241 | 572 |
| 2006 | £177,000 | £307,249 | 546 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 422 |
| 2004 | £179,500 | £326,007 | 470 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 478 |
| 2002 | £135,800 | £255,507 | 278 |
| 2001 | £114,000 | £219,159 | 327 |
| 2000 | £97,000 | £190,363 | 284 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 376 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 373 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 376 |
| 1996 | £61,200 | £129,068 | 224 |
| 1995 | £61,200 | £133,039 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical CO4 5 home went from £61,200 in 1995 to £332,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. 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 5 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 2010 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 93 sales completed in CO4 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 422 sales a year before the financial crisis and 194 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 homes rent for around CO4 5
The local authority for CO4 5 is Colchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,211 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £829 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,819 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Colchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £332,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,211 a month (£14,532 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Common questions on CO4 5 (Greenstead)
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The questions people bring to CO4 5 (Greenstead)
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, CO4 5HG among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Where do CO4 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in CO4 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 138 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO4 district, not just CO4 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Orchard Gardens, Ipswich Road, Colche...
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- Viceroy Close, Colchester
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CO4 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.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CO4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO4 0 | £317,000 | 40 |
| CO4 3 | £285,000 | 51 |
| 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 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO4 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO4 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO4 5 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 CO4 5.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CO4 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO4 5 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.