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Tiptree market report CO5 8, Colchester
The standing CO5 8 (Tiptree) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,061 registered sales in CO5 8 (Colchester) since 1995, 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 43 registered 2026 sales put the CO5 8 (Colchester) median at £426,500, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £445,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,310 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,061 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CO5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CO5 (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 CO5 8 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 CO5 8 homes really sell for
43 sales were registered in CO5 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £426,500. The mean works out at £445,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in CO5 8
Per square metre, CO5 8 homes have averaged around £4,310 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CO5 8 trades 50% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CO5 8 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £426,500 | £426,500 | 43 |
| 2025 | £457,500 | £468,440 | 134 |
| 2024 | £448,000 | £476,316 | 129 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 102 |
| 2022 | £416,200 | £488,042 | 100 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 172 |
| 2020 | £348,000 | £451,537 | 127 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 124 |
| 2018 | £342,500 | £456,559 | 121 |
| 2017 | £327,500 | £446,677 | 120 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 179 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 159 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 203 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 150 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 103 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 135 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 131 |
| 2009 | £212,500 | £341,596 | 119 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 98 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 229 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 210 |
| 2005 | £227,500 | £404,858 | 164 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 187 |
| 2003 | £177,000 | £326,077 | 159 |
| 2002 | £156,000 | £293,513 | 212 |
| 2001 | £129,000 | £247,996 | 210 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 181 |
| 1999 | £86,000 | £171,394 | 247 |
| 1998 | £82,500 | £166,532 | 205 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 257 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 199 |
| 1995 | £64,200 | £139,561 | 152 |
In cash terms the typical CO5 8 home went from £64,200 in 1995 to £426,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 206%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO5 8 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 2000 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO5 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.8% | −9.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in CO5 8
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 43 CO5 8 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 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of CO5 8
For renting purposes CO5 8 sits in Colchester. The ONS average private rent there is £1,211 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £829 a month here against £1,819 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Colchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £426,500 median sold price, £1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
How CO5 8 trades
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO5 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CO5, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
CO5 8 (Tiptree): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CO5 8 (Tiptree)?
Is CO5 8 (Tiptree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO5 8 (Tiptree)?
What happens to CO5 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CO5 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO5 district, not just CO5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% 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.
- Bittern Close, Kelvedon, Colchester, Essex
- Birch Street, Birch
- London Road, Kelvedon, Colchester, Essex
"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 CO5 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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%) | — | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CO5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CO5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 0 | £365,000 | 68 |
| CO5 7 | £350,000 | 33 |
| CO5 9 | £475,000 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full CO5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CO5 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO5 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO5 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO5 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CO5 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CO5 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CO5 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual CO5 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.