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Chigwell Row market report IG7 5, Chigwell
The standing IG7 5 (Chigwell Row) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,715 registered sales in IG7 5 (Chigwell) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for IG7 5 (Chigwell) is £500,000, from 17 registered sales, down 30% on five years earlier; the mean is £659,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,050 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,715 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like IG7 5 is a single group of streets within IG7 (Chigwell), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where IG7 5 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 IG7 5
The IG7 5 median stands at £500,000 for 2026, built from 17 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £659,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in IG7 5
By floor space, homes in IG7 5 have sold for about £6,050 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, IG7 5 sits 75% above the national market.
A typical IG7 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £740,000 | £757,696 | 92 |
| 2024 | £702,500 | £746,902 | 90 |
| 2023 | £750,000 | £824,067 | 67 |
| 2022 | £850,000 | £996,722 | 73 |
| 2021 | £715,000 | £905,282 | 129 |
| 2020 | £602,500 | £781,756 | 78 |
| 2019 | £592,500 | £776,626 | 96 |
| 2018 | £622,500 | £829,804 | 128 |
| 2017 | £640,000 | £872,896 | 119 |
| 2016 | £578,800 | £809,747 | 112 |
| 2015 | £477,500 | £674,708 | 118 |
| 2014 | £522,000 | £740,548 | 119 |
| 2013 | £468,000 | £673,405 | 115 |
| 2012 | £395,000 | £581,391 | 69 |
| 2011 | £384,000 | £579,692 | 86 |
| 2010 | £450,000 | £705,716 | 83 |
| 2009 | £324,800 | £522,119 | 72 |
| 2008 | £370,000 | £606,508 | 69 |
| 2007 | £286,000 | £485,136 | 168 |
| 2006 | £320,000 | £555,479 | 185 |
| 2005 | £247,500 | £440,450 | 123 |
| 2004 | £315,000 | £572,102 | 155 |
| 2003 | £295,000 | £543,462 | 167 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 169 |
| 2001 | £230,000 | £442,163 | 159 |
| 2000 | £198,000 | £388,575 | 181 |
| 1999 | £156,000 | £310,900 | 150 |
| 1998 | £127,500 | £257,368 | 131 |
| 1997 | £115,000 | £235,842 | 145 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 140 |
| 1995 | £134,000 | £291,295 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical IG7 5 home went from £134,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 72%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 50% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the IG7 5 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 2010 (+38.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−32.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What IG7 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −32.4% | −34.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.9% | −11.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.5% | −4.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 IG7 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
IG7 5 recorded 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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 IG7 5 market
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes IG7 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around IG7 5
The local authority for IG7 5 is Epping Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,842 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,228 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,879, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Epping Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, which against the £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
IG7 5 (Chigwell Row): the questions that come up
Is IG7 5 (Chigwell Row) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IG7 5 (Chigwell Row)?
Are property prices falling in IG7 5 (Chigwell Row)?
What happens to IG7 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 30% over five years in cash but down 45% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in IG7 now
Turning to what is actually available: 25 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole IG7 district, not just IG7 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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.
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 IG7 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the IG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in IG7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of IG7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IG7 4 | £430,000 | 33 |
| IG7 6 | £631,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full IG7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how IG7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in IG7 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at IG7 5'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 IG7 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim IG7 5.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about IG7 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every IG7 5 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.
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.