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Fairlop market report IG6 1, Ilford
The standing IG6 1 (Fairlop) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,618 registered sales in IG6 1 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 41 registered 2026 sales put the IG6 1 (Ilford) median at £595,000, up 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £542,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,130 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,618 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
IG6 1 is one sector of IG6 (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 IG6 1 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 IG6 1 sells for
Take the 41 registered 2026 sales in IG6 1 and the middle price, the median, is £595,000. The mean lands at £542,200, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in IG6 1
Per square metre, IG6 1 homes have averaged around £5,130 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, IG6 1 runs 109% above it.
A typical IG6 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £595,000 | £595,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £515,000 | £527,315 | 84 |
| 2024 | £507,800 | £539,896 | 76 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 49 |
| 2022 | £515,000 | £603,896 | 91 |
| 2021 | £518,500 | £656,488 | 122 |
| 2020 | £475,000 | £616,322 | 55 |
| 2019 | £460,500 | £603,605 | 78 |
| 2018 | £455,000 | £606,524 | 82 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 104 |
| 2016 | £440,000 | £615,564 | 111 |
| 2015 | £410,000 | £579,330 | 116 |
| 2014 | £345,000 | £489,443 | 181 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 138 |
| 2012 | £281,200 | £413,891 | 84 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 86 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 92 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 76 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 77 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 178 |
| 2006 | £241,000 | £418,345 | 148 |
| 2005 | £247,800 | £440,984 | 110 |
| 2004 | £244,500 | £444,060 | 162 |
| 2003 | £218,000 | £401,609 | 149 |
| 2002 | £193,000 | £363,128 | 173 |
| 2001 | £157,000 | £301,824 | 151 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 123 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 174 |
| 1998 | £101,000 | £203,876 | 123 |
| 1997 | £85,500 | £175,343 | 139 |
| 1996 | £78,400 | £165,342 | 136 |
| 1995 | £79,000 | £171,734 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical IG6 1 home went from £79,000 in 1995 to £595,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 246%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IG6 1 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 2014 (+38.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.0%). 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) | +15.5% | +12.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
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
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.
The register shows 41 IG6 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 149 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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.
Rents around IG6 1
For renting purposes IG6 1 sits in Redbridge. The ONS average private rent there is £1,725 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,365 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,714, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Redbridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £595,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,725 a month (£20,700 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
What kind of market IG6 1 is
This is a thin market: 41 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 IG6 district median, IG6 1 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on IG6 1 (Fairlop)
Is IG6 1 (Fairlop) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IG6 1 (Fairlop)?
Are property prices falling in IG6 1 (Fairlop)?
Are IG6 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in IG6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 47 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IG6 district, not just IG6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% 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.
"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 IG6 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
Real sold prices by size across the IG area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, IG area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in IG6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are IG6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IG6 2 | £500,000 | 41 |
| IG6 3 | £467,500 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full IG6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IG6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in IG6 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IG6 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working IG6 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IG6 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IG6 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual IG6 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.