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Gants Hill market report IG2 7, Ilford
The IG2 7 (Gants Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,147 registered sales in IG2 7 (Ilford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for IG2 7 (Ilford) is £482,500, from 32 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £455,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,050 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,147 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
IG2 7 is one sector of IG2 (Ilford): 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 IG2 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 IG2 7 homes really sell for
The IG2 7 median stands at £482,500 for 2026, built from 32 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £455,600, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
IG2 7 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of IG2 7 sales average about £5,050 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving IG2 7 69% above the national figure.
IG2 7'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 | £482,500 | £482,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £492,500 | £504,277 | 68 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 59 |
| 2023 | £465,500 | £511,471 | 58 |
| 2022 | £492,500 | £577,512 | 92 |
| 2021 | £476,000 | £602,677 | 95 |
| 2020 | £427,500 | £554,690 | 72 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 82 |
| 2018 | £417,500 | £556,535 | 78 |
| 2017 | £366,000 | £499,187 | 104 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 126 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 159 |
| 2014 | £297,500 | £422,056 | 128 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 120 |
| 2012 | £256,000 | £376,800 | 93 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 97 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 123 |
| 2009 | £229,000 | £368,119 | 100 |
| 2008 | £249,200 | £408,491 | 124 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 250 |
| 2006 | £231,100 | £401,160 | 254 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 264 |
| 2004 | £217,500 | £395,022 | 443 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 265 |
| 2002 | £162,200 | £305,178 | 312 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 307 |
| 2000 | £116,000 | £227,650 | 227 |
| 1999 | £94,500 | £188,334 | 248 |
| 1998 | £84,000 | £169,560 | 204 |
| 1997 | £75,800 | £155,451 | 202 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 194 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 167 |
In cash terms the typical IG2 7 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £482,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 239%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IG2 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 2003 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.0% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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 IG2 7
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in IG2 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 290 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 rental side of IG2 7
The local authority for IG2 7 is Redbridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £482,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,725 a month (£20,700 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
How IG2 7 trades
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IG2 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
IG2 7 (Gants Hill): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in IG2 7 (Gants Hill)?
Is IG2 7 (Gants Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IG2 7 (Gants Hill)?
Are IG2 7 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in IG2 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 9 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IG2 district, not just IG2 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% 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.
See every IG2 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 IG
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the IG area. 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 | £637,650 | £740,000 (+16%) | £950,000 (+28%) | £1,285,000 (+35%) | £1,625,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £421,175 | £485,000 (+15%) | £575,000 (+19%) | £723,000 (+26%) | £865,000 (+20%) |
| Terraced | £380,000 | £440,000 (+16%) | £500,000 (+14%) | £568,000 (+14%) | £640,000 (+13%) |
| Flat | £244,500 | £315,000 (+29%) | £370,000 (+17%) | £428,995 (+16%) | £575,000 (+34%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the IG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, IG area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 6 | £535,000 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full IG2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IG2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IG2 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IG2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the IG2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IG2 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IG2 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IG2 7 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.
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.