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Elm Park market report RM12, Hornchurch
The RM12 (Elm Park) 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: 16,692 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM12 (Hornchurch) 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: a typical RM12 (Hornchurch) home changed hands for £475,000 in 2026 (median of 191 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £469,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,250 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 16,692 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RM12 is the postcode district covering Hornchurch, Elm Park in Hornchurch. 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 RM12 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 RM12 sells for
Across 191 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RM12 home went for £475,000. The mean is £469,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in RM12
By floor space, homes in RM12 have sold for about £5,250 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RM12 runs 67% above it.
RM12'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 191 |
| 2025 | £465,000 | £476,120 | 508 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 473 |
| 2023 | £435,000 | £477,959 | 421 |
| 2022 | £460,000 | £539,402 | 461 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 764 |
| 2020 | £398,000 | £516,413 | 467 |
| 2019 | £388,000 | £508,575 | 447 |
| 2018 | £382,000 | £509,213 | 446 |
| 2017 | £372,000 | £507,371 | 467 |
| 2016 | £357,000 | £499,447 | 471 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 514 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 549 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 496 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 423 |
| 2011 | £227,500 | £343,438 | 375 |
| 2010 | £226,000 | £354,426 | 379 |
| 2009 | £209,000 | £335,969 | 321 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 368 |
| 2007 | £239,500 | £406,259 | 694 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 659 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 636 |
| 2004 | £197,000 | £357,790 | 764 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 623 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 696 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 672 |
| 2000 | £113,000 | £221,763 | 555 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 619 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 562 |
| 1997 | £79,500 | £163,038 | 622 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 598 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 451 |
In cash terms the typical RM12 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 224%, 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 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM12 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 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £525,000 against £270,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, RM12
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 | £525,000 | 9 | 834 |
| Semi-detached | £525,000 | 90 | 7,137 |
| Terraced | £440,000 | 63 | 5,906 |
| Flats | £270,000 | 29 | 2,815 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Sales activity in RM12
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 378 sales completed in RM12. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 662 sales a year before the financial crisis and 411 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.
Reading the RM12 market
RM12 sits 5 of 20 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around RM12
RM12 falls under Havering, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,564 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,215 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,497 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Havering
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £475,000 median sold price, £1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
Common questions on RM12 (Elm Park)
Are property prices falling in RM12 (Elm Park)?
Is RM12 (Elm Park) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM12 (Elm Park)?
Where do RM12 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
RM12's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in RM12 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 73 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the RM12 median sold price.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 RM12 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RM: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
RM12 ranks 11 of 20 in the RM 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, RM area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside RM12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM12 4 | £487,500 | 88 |
| RM12 5 | £460,000 | 52 |
| RM12 6 | £485,000 | 51 |
How RM12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RM area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RM4 | £570,000 | -8% |
| RM14 | £535,000 | -3% |
| RM11 | £498,000 | +8% |
| RM2 | £487,500 | +3% |
| RM12 (this report) | £475,000 | +12% |
| RM1 | £467,500 | +37% |
| RM6 | £435,000 | +9% |
| RM13 | £435,000 | +18% |
| RM5 | £430,000 | +10% |
| RM3 | £420,000 | +16% |
| RM7 | £420,000 | +10% |
| RM16 | £400,000 | +13% |
| RM10 | £390,000 | +15% |
| RM8 | £387,800 | +16% |
| RM9 | £372,500 | +13% |
| RM15 | £357,500 | +12% |
| RM18 | £332,500 | +16% |
| RM17 | £330,000 | +14% |
| RM20 | £305,200 | +15% |
| RM19 | £223,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in RM12: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RM12, open the average prices map and zoom from the RM12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RM12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RM12: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RM12.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RM12 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RM12 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.
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.