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Fairlop market report IG6, Ilford
The IG6 (Fairlop) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 12,615 sales registered with HM Land Registry in IG6 (Ilford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical IG6 (Ilford) home changed hands for £500,000 in 2026 (median of 111 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £500,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,390 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 12,615 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
IG6 is the postcode district covering Fairlop, Barkingside, Chigwell in Ilford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where IG6 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.
IG6 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 111 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) IG6 home went for £500,000. The mean is £500,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
IG6 prices by floor area
Per square metre, IG6 homes have averaged around £5,390 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IG6 trades 75% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical IG6 home, 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 111 |
| 2025 | £485,000 | £496,598 | 271 |
| 2024 | £490,700 | £521,715 | 220 |
| 2023 | £468,000 | £514,218 | 184 |
| 2022 | £488,500 | £572,822 | 278 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 363 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 232 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 262 |
| 2018 | £425,000 | £566,533 | 302 |
| 2017 | £407,500 | £555,789 | 449 |
| 2016 | £384,000 | £537,220 | 419 |
| 2015 | £343,500 | £485,366 | 406 |
| 2014 | £287,000 | £407,160 | 482 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 376 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 281 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 271 |
| 2010 | £243,000 | £381,087 | 293 |
| 2009 | £227,500 | £365,708 | 299 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 289 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 629 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 591 |
| 2005 | £209,000 | £371,936 | 475 |
| 2004 | £212,000 | £385,033 | 571 |
| 2003 | £197,200 | £363,290 | 580 |
| 2002 | £173,000 | £325,498 | 689 |
| 2001 | £143,000 | £274,910 | 613 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 483 |
| 1999 | £101,000 | £201,288 | 549 |
| 1998 | £87,500 | £176,625 | 425 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 447 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 422 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 353 |
In cash terms the typical IG6 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 229%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% 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 IG6 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 2002 (+21.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.0%). 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) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £655,000 against £315,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, IG6
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 | £655,000 (2025) | – | 550 |
| Semi-detached | £560,000 | 26 | 2,985 |
| Terraced | £526,000 | 60 | 6,315 |
| Flats | £310,500 | 22 | 2,762 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
IG6 recorded 229 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 579 sales a year before the financial crisis and 213 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.
The rental side of IG6
IG6 falls under Redbridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,725 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,725 a month is £20,700 a year, which against the £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on IG6 (Fairlop)
How much did a house sell for in IG6 (Fairlop)?
Are property prices falling in IG6 (Fairlop)?
Is IG6 (Fairlop) a good place to buy a house?
Where do IG6 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
Everything above is what homes in IG6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 47 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the IG6 median sold price.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: IG prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IG area, 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%) | — | — |
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
IG6 ranks 2 of 11 in the IG 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 IG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside IG6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IG6 1 | £595,000 | 41 |
| IG6 2 | £500,000 | 41 |
| IG6 3 | £467,500 | 29 |
How IG6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the IG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| IG9 | £645,000 | +9% |
| IG8 | £555,000 | +1% |
| IG5 | £540,000 | +2% |
| IG4 | £525,000 | -9% |
| IG6 (this report) | £500,000 | +6% |
| IG10 | £500,000 | +0% |
| IG3 | £497,500 | +5% |
| IG2 | £490,000 | -2% |
| IG7 | £475,000 | +4% |
| IG1 | £435,000 | +5% |
| IG11 | £340,000 | +2% |
Thinking of selling in IG6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in IG6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from IG6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded IG6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working IG6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IG6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with IG6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IG6 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.
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.