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Brightlingsea market report CO7 7, Colchester
The CO7 7 (Brightlingsea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,297 HM Land Registry entries for CO7 7 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in CO7 7 (Colchester) sold for £380,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £512,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,297 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CO7 7 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 7 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 7 sells for
The 2026 median for CO7 7 is £380,000, taken from 23 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £512,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
CO7 7 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CO7 7 homes have averaged around £3,940 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 CO7 7 trades 33% above the country as a whole.
A typical CO7 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £409,500 | £419,292 | 154 |
| 2024 | £402,500 | £427,940 | 144 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 157 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 229 |
| 2021 | £367,500 | £465,302 | 178 |
| 2020 | £382,500 | £496,302 | 87 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 105 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 119 |
| 2017 | £362,500 | £494,414 | 84 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 87 |
| 2015 | £261,000 | £368,793 | 108 |
| 2014 | £224,500 | £318,492 | 102 |
| 2013 | £232,500 | £334,544 | 74 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 41 |
| 2011 | £209,000 | £315,510 | 56 |
| 2010 | £228,800 | £358,817 | 66 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 70 |
| 2008 | £233,500 | £382,756 | 66 |
| 2007 | £210,500 | £357,067 | 98 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 117 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 84 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 103 |
| 2003 | £171,000 | £315,023 | 91 |
| 2002 | £149,000 | £280,342 | 102 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 105 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 83 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 109 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 113 |
| 1997 | £71,800 | £147,247 | 130 |
| 1996 | £78,000 | £164,499 | 119 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 93 |
In cash terms the typical CO7 7 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 167%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO7 7 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 (+34.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.5%). 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) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in CO7 7. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 141 sales a year over the last five years against 98 before the financial crisis. 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.
Rents around CO7 7
For renting purposes CO7 7 sits in Tendring. The ONS average private rent there is £1,051 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £757 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,585, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £380,000 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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 7 trades
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO7 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within CO7, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
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What happens to CO7 7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
CO7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CO7 district, not just CO7 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 0 | £257,500 | 48 |
| CO7 6 | £505,000 | 22 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in CO7 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO7 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO7 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO7 7 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 7.
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Two maps carry on from here: every CO7 7 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.