Local market reports › IG area › IG2 › IG2 6
Gants Hill market report IG2 6, Ilford
The IG2 6 (Gants Hill) 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: 4,854 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IG2 6 (Ilford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for IG2 6 (Ilford) is £535,000, from 36 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £485,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,190 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,854 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
IG2 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside IG2 (Ilford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where IG2 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.
IG2 6 sold prices: where the market stands
36 sales were registered in IG2 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £535,000. The mean works out at £485,800, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
Price per square metre in IG2 6
A square metre of IG2 6 home has cost about £5,190 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, IG2 6 sits 88% above the national market.
The price of a typical IG2 6 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £535,000 | £535,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £530,000 | £542,674 | 67 |
| 2024 | £540,000 | £574,131 | 65 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 75 |
| 2022 | £560,000 | £656,664 | 80 |
| 2021 | £520,000 | £658,387 | 123 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 57 |
| 2019 | £468,800 | £614,485 | 108 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 101 |
| 2017 | £470,000 | £641,033 | 111 |
| 2016 | £366,100 | £512,178 | 160 |
| 2015 | £380,600 | £537,788 | 140 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 114 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 110 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 113 |
| 2011 | £270,000 | £407,596 | 94 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 216 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 219 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 196 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 335 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 201 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 167 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 220 |
| 2003 | £228,000 | £420,031 | 205 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 214 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 232 |
| 2000 | £133,500 | £261,994 | 202 |
| 1999 | £117,000 | £233,175 | 208 |
| 1998 | £98,500 | £198,829 | 192 |
| 1997 | £87,000 | £178,419 | 196 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 163 |
| 1995 | £73,000 | £158,691 | 134 |
In cash terms the typical IG2 6 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £535,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 237%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IG2 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 2011 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What IG2 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.9% | −1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
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.
IG2 6 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 222 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
The shape of the IG2 6 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IG2 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the IG2 district median, IG2 6 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around IG2 6
IG2 6 falls under Redbridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,725 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,365 a month here against £2,714 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Redbridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £535,000 median sold price, £1,725 a month is £20,700 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, IG2 6DN among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: IG2 6 (Gants Hill)
Are property prices falling in IG2 6 (Gants Hill)?
Is IG2 6 (Gants Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IG2 6 (Gants Hill)?
Are IG2 6 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in IG2 now
Turning to what is actually available: 53 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IG2 district, not just IG2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 13% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 IG2 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in IG
Real sold prices by size across the IG area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £530,000 | £800,000 (+51%) | £1,150,000 (+44%) | £1,600,000 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £400,325 | £485,000 (+21%) | £590,000 (+22%) | £755,000 (+28%) | £930,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £380,000 | £450,000 (+18%) | £525,000 (+17%) | £620,000 (+18%) | £750,000 (+21%) |
| Flat | £260,000 | £355,500 (+37%) | £485,000 (+36%) | — | — |
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 IG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
IG area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in IG2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are IG2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IG2 7 | £470,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full IG2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IG2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IG2 6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IG2 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IG2 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IG2 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working IG2 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IG2 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IG2 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IG2 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.
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.