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Greenstead market report CO4 6, Colchester
The standing CO4 6 (Greenstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,693 registered sales in CO4 6 (Colchester) since 2013, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: the middle 2026 sale in CO4 6 (Colchester) came in at £380,000, out of 29 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £389,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,693 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 2013, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CO4 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CO4 (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 CO4 6 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 6
In the CO4 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £380,000, from 29 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £389,200, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CO4 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put CO4 6 at roughly £3,860 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO4 6 runs 33% above it.
The price of a typical CO4 6 home, 2013 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £390,000 | £399,326 | 111 |
| 2024 | £380,000 | £404,018 | 113 |
| 2023 | £395,000 | £434,009 | 77 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 167 |
| 2021 | £360,000 | £455,806 | 233 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 146 |
| 2019 | £323,000 | £423,376 | 245 |
| 2018 | £319,000 | £425,233 | 344 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 173 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 45 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 1 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 9 |
In cash terms the typical CO4 6 home went from £285,000 in 2013 to £380,000 in 2026, a 33% rise. Strip out inflation, though, and the change is small: about -7% in real terms. Most of the cash growth is money losing value rather than homes gaining it. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO4 6 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 2016 (+39.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−3.8%). 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) | −2.6% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
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 CO4 6
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.
CO4 6 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market CO4 6 is
This is a thin market: 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the CO4 district median, CO4 6 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around CO4 6
The local authority for CO4 6 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.
£1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, which against the £380,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
Common questions on CO4 6 (Greenstead)
How much did a house sell for in CO4 6 (Greenstead)?
Are property prices falling in CO4 6 (Greenstead)?
Is CO4 6 (Greenstead) a good place to buy a house?
Are CO4 6 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in CO4 right now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, from the Land Registry record. 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. 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 CO4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CO4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO4 0 | £317,000 | 40 |
| CO4 3 | £285,000 | 51 |
| CO4 5 | £332,000 | 93 |
| 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 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO4 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO4 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO4 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CO4 6.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO4 6. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO4 6 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.