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Romford market report RM
The standing RM (Romford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 248,931 HM Land Registry entries for the RM postcode area (Romford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the RM postcode area (Romford) came in at £410,000, out of 2,192 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £427,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 248,931 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The figures for RM centred on Romford run across 20 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where RM 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.
RM sold prices: where the market stands
In the RM property market, the 2026 median sale price is £410,000, from 2,192 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £427,100, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in RM
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RM costs about £4,880 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RM 44% above the national figure.
RM's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 2,192 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 6,004 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 5,509 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 4,975 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 6,689 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 8,646 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 5,725 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 6,351 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 6,929 |
| 2017 | £316,000 | £430,992 | 7,226 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 8,001 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 8,355 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 8,234 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 6,713 |
| 2012 | £193,000 | £284,072 | 5,464 |
| 2011 | £193,000 | £291,356 | 5,279 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 5,336 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 4,472 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 5,469 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 12,037 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 11,796 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 9,719 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 11,350 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 11,066 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 12,091 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 11,043 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 9,605 |
| 1999 | £75,500 | £150,468 | 9,784 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 8,802 |
| 1997 | £63,800 | £130,841 | 9,173 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 8,108 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 6,788 |
In cash terms the typical RM home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 225%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.5%). 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) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £600,000 against £240,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, RM
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 | £600,000 | 191 | 22,139 |
| Semi-detached | £475,000 | 695 | 65,272 |
| Terraced | £400,000 | 868 | 103,731 |
| Flats | £240,000 | 438 | 57,789 |
Sales activity in RM
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
RM recorded 4,620 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 11,088 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5,074 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.
Rents around RM
For renting purposes RM sits in Havering, the local authority covering most of the RM area (parts fall under Thurrock and Barking and Dagenham, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,564 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,215 a month here against £2,497 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Havering
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, which against the £410,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
Asked and answered: RM (Romford)
Is RM (Romford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM (Romford)?
Are property prices falling in RM (Romford)?
Will RM prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
RM's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in RM sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1,203 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the RM median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Chigwell View, Romford, RM5
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 RM 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 RM
Real sold prices by size across the RM 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 | — | £450,000 | £575,000 (+28%) | £830,000 (+44%) | £1,150,000 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £365,000 | £425,000 (+16%) | £485,000 (+14%) | £635,000 (+31%) | £772,500 (+22%) |
| Terraced | £330,000 | £380,000 (+15%) | £435,000 (+14%) | £527,750 (+21%) | £662,500 (+26%) |
| Flat | £222,000 | £280,000 (+26%) | £360,000 (+29%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the RM area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The spread inside RM matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM4 Havering-atte-Bower, Abridge | £570,000 | -8% | 15 |
| RM14 Upminster, Cranham | £535,000 | -3% | 129 |
| RM11 Hornchurch, Emerson Park | £498,000 | +8% | 175 |
| RM2 Gidea Park, Heath Park | £487,500 | +3% | 76 |
| RM12 Hornchurch, Elm Park | £475,000 | +12% | 191 |
| RM1 Romford, Rise Park | £467,500 | +37% | 148 |
| RM6 Chadwell Heath, Marks Gate | £435,000 | +9% | 85 |
| RM13 Rainham, South Hornchurch | £435,000 | +18% | 125 |
| RM5 Collier Row | £430,000 | +10% | 93 |
| RM3 Harold Wood, Harold Hill | £420,000 | +16% | 176 |
| RM7 Rush Green, Mawneys | £420,000 | +10% | 135 |
| RM16 Chafford Hundred, Chadwell St Mary | £400,000 | +13% | 190 |
| RM10 Dagenham, Becontree | £390,000 | +15% | 83 |
| RM8 Dagenham, Becontree | £387,800 | +16% | 114 |
| RM9 Dagenham, Becontree Castle Green | £372,500 | +13% | 99 |
| RM15 Thurrock, Havering | £357,500 | +12% | 132 |
| RM18 Tilbury, East Tilbury | £332,500 | +16% | 56 |
| RM17 Grays, Badgers Dene | £330,000 | +14% | 117 |
| RM20 West Thurrock, South Stifford | £305,200 | +15% | 30 |
| RM19 Purfleet | £223,000 | -2% | 23 |
Selling a home in RM? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RM, open the average prices map and zoom from the RM shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RM sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Two maps carry on from here: every RM 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.