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Tiptree market report CO5, Colchester
The standing CO5 (Tiptree) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 17,503 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO5 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CO5 (Colchester) is £385,000, from 180 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £424,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,503 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO5 is the postcode district covering Tiptree, Kelvedon, West Mersea 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 CO5 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.
Today's CO5 prices, from the sold record
The CO5 median stands at £385,000 for 2026, built from 180 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £424,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CO5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put CO5 at roughly £4,170 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO5 sits 35% above the national market.
CO5's median sold price, 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 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 180 |
| 2025 | £386,500 | £395,742 | 569 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 520 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 419 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 552 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 714 |
| 2020 | £338,700 | £439,470 | 494 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 478 |
| 2018 | £327,500 | £436,564 | 507 |
| 2017 | £314,000 | £428,264 | 491 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 542 |
| 2015 | £258,000 | £364,554 | 563 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 568 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 494 |
| 2012 | £224,000 | £329,700 | 386 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 460 |
| 2010 | £222,500 | £348,937 | 398 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 414 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 306 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 698 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 720 |
| 2005 | £209,000 | £371,936 | 517 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 653 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 631 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 842 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 781 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 627 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 726 |
| 1998 | £83,200 | £167,945 | 602 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 656 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 559 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 436 |
In cash terms the typical CO5 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO5 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 (+20.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £485,000 against £172,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CO5
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 | £485,000 | 85 | 8,613 |
| Semi-detached | £375,000 | 63 | 5,062 |
| Terraced | £310,000 | 19 | 2,195 |
| Flats | £172,000 | 13 | 1,633 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 402 sales completed in CO5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 684 sales a year before the financial crisis and 448 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.
The rental side of CO5
CO5 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 £385,000 median sold price, £1,211 a month is £14,532 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
What kind of market CO5 is
CO5 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Common questions on CO5 (Tiptree)
Is CO5 (Tiptree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO5 (Tiptree)?
Are property prices falling in CO5 (Tiptree)?
What happens to CO5 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 CO5 today
Everything above is what homes in CO5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 75% above the CO5 median sold price.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CO5 ranks 8 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.
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.
Inside CO5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 0 | £365,000 | 68 |
| CO5 7 | £350,000 | 33 |
| CO5 8 | £426,500 | 43 |
| CO5 9 | £475,000 | 36 |
How CO5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 (this report) | £385,000 | +3% |
| CO6 | £385,000 | +1% |
| CO3 | £340,000 | +4% |
| CO8 | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 | £324,000 | -2% |
| CO9 | £323,500 | +8% |
| CO4 | £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 CO5? 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 CO5'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.
Estate agents working CO5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CO5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CO5 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.
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.