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Brightlingsea market report CO7 0, Colchester
The standing CO7 0 (Brightlingsea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,829 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO7 0 (Colchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CO7 0 (Colchester) home changed hands for £257,500 in 2026 (median of 48 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £268,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,440 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,829 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CO7 0 is one sector of CO7 (Colchester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CO7 0 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 a home in CO7 0 sells for
48 sales were registered in CO7 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £257,500. The mean works out at £268,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in CO7 0
The last five years of sales put CO7 0 at roughly £3,440 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, CO7 0 runs 10% below it.
A typical CO7 0 home, priced year by year (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 | £257,500 | £257,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 139 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 150 |
| 2023 | £271,500 | £298,312 | 150 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 203 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 228 |
| 2020 | £247,800 | £321,526 | 176 |
| 2019 | £229,500 | £300,820 | 162 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 177 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 201 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 185 |
| 2015 | £177,500 | £250,808 | 189 |
| 2014 | £167,200 | £237,202 | 184 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 160 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 125 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 122 |
| 2010 | £154,500 | £242,296 | 130 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 135 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 114 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 277 |
| 2006 | £151,200 | £262,464 | 246 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 160 |
| 2004 | £133,500 | £242,462 | 259 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 201 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 257 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 208 |
| 2000 | £67,500 | £132,469 | 241 |
| 1999 | £57,600 | £114,794 | 242 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 237 |
| 1997 | £47,200 | £96,798 | 216 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 175 |
| 1995 | £42,200 | £91,736 | 132 |
In cash terms the typical CO7 0 home went from £42,200 in 1995 to £257,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 181%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO7 0 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 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CO7 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.4% | −8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
CO7 0 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 231 sales a year before the financial crisis and 138 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.
What tenants pay around CO7 0
For renting purposes CO7 0 sits in Tendring. The ONS average private rent there is £1,051 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £757 a month here against £1,585 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £257,500 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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 CO7 0 trades
This is a thin market: 48 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 CO7 district median, CO7 0 sits 21% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
CO7 0 (Brightlingsea): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CO7 0 (Brightlingsea)?
Are property prices falling in CO7 0 (Brightlingsea)?
Is CO7 0 (Brightlingsea) a good place to buy a house?
Will CO7 0 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CO7 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 83 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO7 district, not just CO7 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Broom Knoll, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk
- Frances Close, Wivenhoe, Colchester
- Stable Cottage, Ford Lane, Alresford, Colchester, CO7
"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 CO7 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CO: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 CO7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CO7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO7 6 | £505,000 | 22 |
| CO7 7 | £380,000 | 23 |
| CO7 8 | £353,800 | 52 |
| CO7 9 | £320,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full CO7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CO7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CO7 0? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO7 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO7 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO7 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CO7 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CO7 0.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every CO7 0 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.