Local market reports › CO area › CO4 › CO4 9
Greenstead market report CO4 9, Colchester
The standing CO4 9 (Greenstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,414 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO4 9 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CO4 9 (Colchester) home changed hands for £295,000 in 2026 (median of 60 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £313,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,030 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,414 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CO4 9 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 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.
What buyers actually paid in CO4 9
In the CO4 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 60 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £313,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CO4 9
A square metre of CO4 9 home has cost about £4,030 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO4 9 runs 4% above it.
The price of a typical CO4 9 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £296,000 | £303,078 | 134 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 138 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 128 |
| 2022 | £271,000 | £317,778 | 159 |
| 2021 | £258,000 | £326,661 | 161 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 165 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 204 |
| 2018 | £253,000 | £337,254 | 189 |
| 2017 | £252,500 | £344,385 | 195 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 222 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 211 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 181 |
| 2013 | £154,000 | £221,591 | 153 |
| 2012 | £149,000 | £219,309 | 123 |
| 2011 | £164,500 | £248,332 | 109 |
| 2010 | £148,000 | £232,102 | 121 |
| 2009 | £149,000 | £239,519 | 130 |
| 2008 | £152,200 | £249,488 | 138 |
| 2007 | £163,000 | £276,493 | 326 |
| 2006 | £150,500 | £261,249 | 338 |
| 2005 | £147,500 | £262,491 | 320 |
| 2004 | £149,000 | £270,613 | 407 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 449 |
| 2002 | £106,000 | £199,438 | 476 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 383 |
| 2000 | £69,500 | £136,394 | 357 |
| 1999 | £56,200 | £112,004 | 342 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 334 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 299 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 232 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 230 |
In cash terms the typical CO4 9 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 166%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO4 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 (+43.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−9.4%). 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) | −0.3% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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 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.
The register shows 60 CO4 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 382 sales a year before the financial crisis and 124 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of CO4 9
The local authority for CO4 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.
£1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, which against the £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
Reading the CO4 9 market
Against the CO4 district median, CO4 9 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on CO4 9 (Greenstead)
How much did a house sell for in CO4 9 (Greenstead)?
Are property prices falling in CO4 9 (Greenstead)?
Is CO4 9 (Greenstead) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CO4 9 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 CO4 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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Orchard Gardens, Ipswich Road, Colche...
- Septimus Drive, Highwoods, Colchester
- 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Five-year change in the median, CO area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 6 | £380,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full CO4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CO4 9? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CO4 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CO4 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO4 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO4 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.