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Brightlingsea market report CO7 6, Colchester
The standing CO7 6 (Brightlingsea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,991 HM Land Registry entries for CO7 6 (Colchester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CO7 6 (Colchester) sold for £505,000 in 2026, the median of 22 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £592,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,310 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,991 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CO7 6 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 6 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 CO7 6 homes really sell for
22 sales were registered in CO7 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £505,000. The mean works out at £592,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in CO7 6
A square metre of CO7 6 home has cost about £4,310 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CO7 6 trades 77% above the country as a whole.
A typical CO7 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £505,000 | £505,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £468,000 | £479,191 | 119 |
| 2024 | £460,000 | £489,074 | 105 |
| 2023 | £482,000 | £529,600 | 67 |
| 2022 | £530,000 | £621,485 | 75 |
| 2021 | £454,200 | £575,076 | 120 |
| 2020 | £428,000 | £555,339 | 77 |
| 2019 | £410,000 | £537,412 | 75 |
| 2018 | £400,000 | £533,208 | 96 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 97 |
| 2016 | £357,800 | £500,566 | 88 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 93 |
| 2014 | £325,000 | £461,069 | 108 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 94 |
| 2012 | £288,000 | £423,900 | 85 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 73 |
| 2010 | £318,800 | £499,960 | 86 |
| 2009 | £317,500 | £510,384 | 58 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 61 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 117 |
| 2006 | £249,500 | £433,100 | 116 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 79 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 105 |
| 2003 | £230,000 | £423,716 | 113 |
| 2002 | £205,000 | £385,706 | 119 |
| 2001 | £158,800 | £305,285 | 114 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 88 |
| 1999 | £132,200 | £263,468 | 126 |
| 1998 | £98,600 | £199,031 | 108 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 116 |
| 1996 | £78,000 | £164,499 | 103 |
| 1995 | £74,200 | £161,299 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical CO7 6 home went from £74,200 in 1995 to £505,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 213%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. 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 CO7 6 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 1999 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−21.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 22 sales completed in CO7 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 106 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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 homes rent for around CO7 6
For renting purposes CO7 6 sits in Babergh. The ONS average private rent there is £972 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £722 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,612, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Babergh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£972 a month is £11,664 a year, which against the £505,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.3%. 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.
The shape of the CO7 6 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO7 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CO7, this sector trades 56% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CO7 6 (Brightlingsea)
Are property prices falling in CO7 6 (Brightlingsea)?
Is CO7 6 (Brightlingsea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO7 6 (Brightlingsea)?
Where do CO7 6 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 you could buy in CO7 now
Turning to what is actually available: 83 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO7 district, not just CO7 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Broom Knoll, East Bergholt, Colchester, Suffolk
- Frances Close, Wivenhoe, Colchester
- Stable Cottage, Ford Lane, Alresford, Colchester, CO7
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in CO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CO area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 CO7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CO7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO7 0 | £257,500 | 48 |
| 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 in CO7 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO7 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO7 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO7 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CO7 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CO7 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CO7 6 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.
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.