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Brightlingsea market report CO7, Colchester
The standing CO7 (Brightlingsea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 20,958 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CO7 (Colchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CO7 (Colchester) home changed hands for £324,000 in 2026 (median of 189 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £381,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,850 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,958 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district CO7 covering Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe, Great Bentley sits in Colchester. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CO7 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 sells for
In the CO7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £324,000, from 189 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £381,600, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in CO7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CO7 sales average about £3,850 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CO7 sits 14% above the national market.
CO7'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 | £324,000 | £324,000 | 189 |
| 2025 | £355,000 | £363,489 | 724 |
| 2024 | £360,000 | £382,754 | 628 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 585 |
| 2022 | £369,000 | £432,695 | 825 |
| 2021 | £330,000 | £417,823 | 984 |
| 2020 | £312,500 | £405,475 | 613 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 652 |
| 2018 | £285,000 | £379,910 | 641 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 608 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 634 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 641 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 642 |
| 2013 | £209,400 | £301,306 | 561 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 511 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 478 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 494 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 476 |
| 2008 | £197,500 | £323,744 | 411 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 816 |
| 2006 | £183,000 | £317,665 | 828 |
| 2005 | £182,000 | £323,887 | 609 |
| 2004 | £162,800 | £295,677 | 822 |
| 2003 | £152,100 | £280,205 | 698 |
| 2002 | £132,100 | £248,545 | 826 |
| 2001 | £102,500 | £197,051 | 805 |
| 2000 | £89,000 | £174,663 | 749 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 821 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 704 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 793 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 663 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 527 |
In cash terms the typical CO7 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £324,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 161%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CO7 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 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.4%). 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, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £410,000 against £153,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, CO7
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 | £410,000 | 85 | 8,893 |
| Semi-detached | £295,000 | 63 | 7,144 |
| Terraced | £260,000 | 35 | 3,393 |
| Flats | £153,500 | 6 | 1,528 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.7% | −10.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in CO7
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
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, 475 sales completed in CO7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 769 sales a year before the financial crisis and 590 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.
How CO7 trades
CO7 sits 5 of 16 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around CO7
For renting purposes CO7 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 £324,000 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
CO7 (Brightlingsea): the questions that come up
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What happens to CO7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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 is for sale in CO7 right now
Everything above is what homes in CO7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 83 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 62% above the CO7 median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in CO
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
CO7 ranks 14 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.
Five-year change in the median, CO area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CO7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO7 0 | £257,500 | 48 |
| CO7 6 | £505,000 | 22 |
| CO7 7 | £380,000 | 23 |
| CO7 8 | £353,800 | 52 |
| CO7 9 | £320,000 | 44 |
How CO7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CO5 | £385,000 | +3% |
| CO6 | £385,000 | +1% |
| CO3 | £340,000 | +4% |
| CO8 | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in CO7: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CO7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CO7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every CO7 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.