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Chigwell Row market report IG7, Chigwell
The standing IG7 (Chigwell Row) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 9,763 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in IG7 (Chigwell) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in IG7 (Chigwell) sold for £475,000 in 2026, the median of 77 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £622,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,690 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,763 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
IG7 is a postcode district covering Chigwell, Chigwell Row, Hainault (north) in Chigwell. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where IG7 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 IG7 sells for
In the IG7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £475,000, from 77 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £622,200, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in IG7
The last five years of sales put IG7 at roughly £5,690 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so IG7 trades 67% above the country as a whole.
A typical IG7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 77 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 236 |
| 2024 | £460,000 | £489,074 | 230 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 177 |
| 2022 | £510,000 | £598,033 | 242 |
| 2021 | £457,500 | £579,254 | 393 |
| 2020 | £502,500 | £652,004 | 266 |
| 2019 | £421,800 | £552,879 | 317 |
| 2018 | £515,000 | £686,505 | 360 |
| 2017 | £445,000 | £606,935 | 326 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 288 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 322 |
| 2014 | £365,000 | £517,816 | 324 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 285 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 204 |
| 2011 | £245,500 | £370,611 | 224 |
| 2010 | £285,000 | £446,953 | 194 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 177 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 192 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 457 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 455 |
| 2005 | £203,500 | £362,148 | 339 |
| 2004 | £218,000 | £395,931 | 410 |
| 2003 | £212,000 | £390,555 | 417 |
| 2002 | £161,000 | £302,920 | 423 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 373 |
| 2000 | £126,000 | £247,275 | 377 |
| 1999 | £113,600 | £226,399 | 438 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 342 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 324 |
| 1996 | £74,500 | £157,117 | 324 |
| 1995 | £87,400 | £189,994 | 250 |
In cash terms the typical IG7 home went from £87,400 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 150%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the IG7 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 (+35.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−18.1%). 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) | −5.0% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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, 27% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,402,500 against £350,000 for a flat, 4.0 times the price.
Median by property type, IG7
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 | £1,402,500 | 14 | 2,263 |
| Semi-detached | £500,000 | 25 | 2,659 |
| Terraced | £430,500 | 22 | 2,681 |
| Flats | £350,000 | 16 | 2,160 |
How many homes change hands in IG7
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
IG7 recorded 178 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 406 sales a year before the financial crisis and 192 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the IG7 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of IG7
The local authority for IG7 is Epping Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,842 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,228 a month here against £2,879 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Epping Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £475,000 median sold price, £1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: IG7 (Chigwell Row)
Are property prices falling in IG7 (Chigwell Row)?
Is IG7 (Chigwell Row) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in IG7 (Chigwell Row)?
Are IG7 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 IG7 now
Everything above is what homes in IG7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the IG7 median sold price.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in IG
What homes of each size actually sold for across the IG area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
IG7 ranks 5 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.
Five-year change in the median, IG area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside IG7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| IG7 4 | £430,000 | 33 |
| IG7 5 | £500,000 | 17 |
| IG7 6 | £631,000 | 27 |
How IG7 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 | £500,000 | +6% |
| IG10 | £500,000 | +0% |
| IG3 | £497,500 | +5% |
| IG2 | £490,000 | -2% |
| IG7 (this report) | £475,000 | +4% |
| IG1 | £435,000 | +5% |
| IG11 | £340,000 | +2% |
Before you sell in IG7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in IG7, open the average prices map and zoom from the IG7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded IG7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim IG7.
Dig further
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See every individual IG7 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.
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.