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Alphamstone market report CO8, Bures
The CO8 (Alphamstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,110 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CO8 (Bures) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CO8 (Bures) sold for £335,000 in 2026, the median of 10 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £345,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,890 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,110 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CO8 is a postcode district covering Bures, Alphamstone in Bures. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CO8 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 buyers actually paid in CO8
Take the 10 registered 2026 sales in CO8 and the middle price, the median, is £335,000. The mean lands at £345,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in CO8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CO8 costs about £3,890 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CO8 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CO8 home, 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 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 10 |
| 2025 | £430,000 | £440,283 | 33 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 27 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 23 |
| 2022 | £416,000 | £487,807 | 33 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 46 |
| 2020 | £396,800 | £514,856 | 31 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 35 |
| 2018 | £344,000 | £458,558 | 42 |
| 2017 | £462,500 | £630,804 | 29 |
| 2016 | £347,500 | £486,156 | 38 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 31 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 59 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 33 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 19 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 35 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 35 |
| 2009 | £197,500 | £317,483 | 26 |
| 2008 | £237,500 | £389,313 | 26 |
| 2007 | £241,200 | £409,142 | 38 |
| 2006 | £228,500 | £396,647 | 43 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 26 |
| 2004 | £255,000 | £463,130 | 26 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 35 |
| 2002 | £152,500 | £286,927 | 38 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 41 |
| 2000 | £119,700 | £234,911 | 42 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 48 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 37 |
| 1997 | £80,500 | £165,089 | 40 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 53 |
| 1995 | £77,500 | £168,473 | 32 |
In cash terms the typical CO8 home went from £77,500 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 99%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 47% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO8 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 2010 (+57.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−27.4%). 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, 57% of the typed total.
Median by property type, CO8
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 | £593,500 (2025) | – | 593 |
| Semi-detached | £335,000 | 6 | 283 |
| Terraced | £300,000 (2022) | – | 166 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −22.1% | −23.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.7% | −7.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −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
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.
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, 30 sales completed in CO8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 36 sales a year before the financial crisis and 25 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the CO8 market
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CO8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, CO8 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around CO8
For renting purposes CO8 sits in Braintree. The ONS average private rent there is £1,232 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £863 a month here against £2,003 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Braintree
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £335,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,232 a month (£14,784 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
CO8 (Alphamstone): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CO8 (Alphamstone)?
Is CO8 (Alphamstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CO8 (Alphamstone)?
Where do CO8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in CO8 now
Everything above is what homes in CO8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 13 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 57% above the CO8 median sold price.
15% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 CO8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CO8 ranks 16 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.
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.
Inside CO8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CO8 5 | £335,000 | 10 |
How CO8 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 (this report) | £335,000 | -13% |
| CO7 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in CO8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO8, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO8 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 CO8.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every CO8 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.