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Brightlingsea market report CO7 8, Colchester
The standing CO7 8 (Brightlingsea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,780 HM Land Registry entries for CO7 8 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CO7 8 (Colchester) is £353,800, from 52 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £366,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,780 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CO7 8 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 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.
Today's CO7 8 prices, from the sold record
The CO7 8 median stands at £353,800 for 2026, built from 52 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £366,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in CO7 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO7 8 costs about £3,770 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CO7 8 runs 24% above it.
CO7 8's median sold price, 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 | £353,800 | £353,800 | 52 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 171 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 137 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 103 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 181 |
| 2021 | £338,800 | £428,965 | 290 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 156 |
| 2019 | £311,200 | £407,909 | 188 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 113 |
| 2017 | £283,800 | £387,075 | 94 |
| 2016 | £295,000 | £412,708 | 134 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 103 |
| 2014 | £221,500 | £314,236 | 94 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 99 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 100 |
| 2011 | £204,000 | £307,962 | 69 |
| 2010 | £196,000 | £307,378 | 64 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 70 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 61 |
| 2007 | £206,800 | £350,790 | 120 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 131 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 96 |
| 2004 | £169,000 | £306,937 | 122 |
| 2003 | £152,100 | £280,205 | 110 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 121 |
| 2001 | £104,200 | £200,319 | 156 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 105 |
| 1999 | £84,500 | £168,404 | 134 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 85 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 120 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 121 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 80 |
In cash terms the typical CO7 8 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £353,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 196%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CO7 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 2002 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.5%). 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) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
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.
The register shows 52 CO7 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 129 sales a year recently, against 120 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of CO7 8
The local authority for CO7 8 is Tendring, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,051 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £353,800 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
The shape of the CO7 8 market
This is a thin market: 52 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 8 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on CO7 8 (Brightlingsea)
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Will CO7 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% 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.
What you could buy in CO7 now
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CO: the cost
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. 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.
CO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 6 | £505,000 | 22 |
| CO7 7 | £380,000 | 23 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CO7 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CO7 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO7 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO7 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CO7 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO7 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CO7 8 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.
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.