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Greenstead market report CO4, Colchester
The CO4 (Greenstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 29,117 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO4 (Colchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CO4 (Colchester) is £320,000, from 273 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £326,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,780 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 29,117 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO4 is the postcode district covering Greenstead, Highwoods, St Johns in Colchester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CO4 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
Across 273 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CO4 home went for £320,000. The mean is £326,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CO4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CO4 sales average about £3,780 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO4 sits 12% above the national market.
CO4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 273 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 685 |
| 2024 | £312,500 | £332,252 | 648 |
| 2023 | £312,000 | £342,812 | 583 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 801 |
| 2021 | £311,500 | £394,399 | 1,099 |
| 2020 | £293,200 | £380,433 | 716 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 938 |
| 2018 | £277,800 | £370,313 | 1,032 |
| 2017 | £262,500 | £358,024 | 920 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 978 |
| 2015 | £197,700 | £279,350 | 912 |
| 2014 | £182,000 | £258,199 | 855 |
| 2013 | £179,000 | £257,563 | 719 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 719 |
| 2011 | £173,000 | £261,163 | 659 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 706 |
| 2009 | £149,000 | £239,519 | 657 |
| 2008 | £164,700 | £269,978 | 744 |
| 2007 | £169,000 | £286,671 | 1,403 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 1,337 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 1,081 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 1,252 |
| 2003 | £139,400 | £256,809 | 1,382 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 1,209 |
| 2001 | £86,000 | £165,331 | 1,118 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 1,008 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 1,159 |
| 1998 | £63,400 | £127,977 | 1,057 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 1,063 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 768 |
| 1995 | £51,500 | £111,953 | 636 |
In cash terms the typical CO4 home went from £51,500 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 186%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO4 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 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.5%). 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) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £410,000 against £172,500 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, CO4
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £410,000 | 87 | 8,496 |
| Semi-detached | £316,800 | 86 | 8,253 |
| Terraced | £271,200 | 60 | 7,312 |
| Flats | £172,500 | 40 | 5,056 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 552 CO4 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 1,224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 598 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.
What tenants pay around CO4
CO4 falls under Colchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £320,000 median sold price, £1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
CO4 (Greenstead): the questions that come up
Is CO4 (Greenstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO4 (Greenstead)?
Are property prices falling in CO4 (Greenstead)?
What happens to CO4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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
Everything above is what homes in CO4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 138 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the CO4 median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"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.
What another bedroom costs in CO
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CO4 ranks 7 of 16 in the CO area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside CO4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| CO4 9 | £295,000 | 60 |
How CO4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 | £385,000 | +3% |
| CO6 | £385,000 | +1% |
| CO3 | £340,000 | +4% |
| CO8 | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 | £324,000 | -2% |
| CO9 | £323,500 | +8% |
| CO4 (this report) | £320,000 | +3% |
| CO13 | £320,000 | +0% |
| CO10 | £315,000 | +1% |
| CO11 | £310,000 | +0% |
| CO2 | £275,000 | +10% |
| CO14 | £266,500 | +9% |
| CO16 | £265,000 | -9% |
| CO15 | £236,000 | +7% |
| CO12 | £234,500 | +2% |
| CO1 | £231,500 | +4% |
Thinking of selling in CO4? 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'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 CO4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CO4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO4 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.