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Fairlop market report IG6 2, Ilford
The IG6 2 (Fairlop) 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: 5,845 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IG6 2 (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 typical home in IG6 2 (Ilford) sold for £500,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £480,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,570 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,845 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like IG6 2 is a single group of streets within IG6 (Ilford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where IG6 2 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.
The going rate for a home in IG6 2
Across 41 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IG6 2 home went for £500,000. The mean is £480,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
IG6 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of IG6 2 home has cost about £5,570 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts IG6 2 75% above the country at large.
The price of a typical IG6 2 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £495,000 | £506,837 | 118 |
| 2024 | £495,800 | £527,137 | 98 |
| 2023 | £467,200 | £513,339 | 80 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 113 |
| 2021 | £475,000 | £601,411 | 150 |
| 2020 | £432,500 | £561,178 | 116 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 128 |
| 2018 | £434,000 | £578,530 | 147 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 255 |
| 2016 | £397,500 | £556,106 | 162 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 182 |
| 2014 | £292,000 | £414,253 | 187 |
| 2013 | £272,000 | £391,381 | 158 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 126 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 125 |
| 2010 | £243,500 | £381,871 | 140 |
| 2009 | £223,000 | £358,474 | 143 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 151 |
| 2007 | £269,500 | £457,147 | 314 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 281 |
| 2005 | £210,800 | £375,139 | 224 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 278 |
| 2003 | £208,500 | £384,108 | 285 |
| 2002 | £177,500 | £333,965 | 359 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 317 |
| 2000 | £126,800 | £248,845 | 236 |
| 1999 | £101,000 | £201,288 | 227 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 183 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 195 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 166 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical IG6 2 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 224%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the IG6 2 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 2000 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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, 41 sales completed in IG6 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 287 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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.
What tenants pay around IG6 2
For renting purposes IG6 2 sits in Redbridge. The ONS average private rent there is £1,725 a month (May 2026). 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 £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,725 a month (£20,700 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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 2 is
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IG6 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: IG6 2 (Fairlop)
Is IG6 2 (Fairlop) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IG6 2 (Fairlop)?
Are property prices falling in IG6 2 (Fairlop)?
Where do IG6 2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in IG6 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 47 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IG6 district, not just IG6 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 IG6 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.
Moving up a bedroom in IG: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IG area, 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 | — | £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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in IG6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IG6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IG6 1 | £595,000 | 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.
Before you sell in IG6 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IG6 2'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim IG6 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to IG6 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual IG6 2 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.