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Chafford Hundred market report RM16 6, Grays
The standing RM16 6 (Chafford Hundred) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 12,857 HM Land Registry entries for RM16 6 (Grays), 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for RM16 6 (Grays) is £358,000, from 71 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £391,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,810 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 12,857 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RM16 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM16 (Grays). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where RM16 6 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 RM16 6
The RM16 6 median stands at £358,000 for 2026, built from 71 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £391,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in RM16 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RM16 6 costs about £4,810 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RM16 6 sits 26% above the national market.
The price of a typical RM16 6 home, 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 | £358,000 | £358,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £368,500 | £377,312 | 209 |
| 2024 | £363,500 | £386,475 | 186 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 156 |
| 2022 | £341,000 | £399,861 | 224 |
| 2021 | £349,000 | £441,879 | 318 |
| 2020 | £315,900 | £409,887 | 194 |
| 2019 | £294,000 | £385,364 | 200 |
| 2018 | £287,500 | £383,243 | 239 |
| 2017 | £293,800 | £400,714 | 308 |
| 2016 | £244,000 | £341,358 | 334 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 298 |
| 2014 | £186,000 | £263,873 | 303 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 226 |
| 2012 | £189,500 | £278,920 | 207 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 213 |
| 2010 | £193,000 | £302,674 | 238 |
| 2009 | £182,800 | £293,853 | 172 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 233 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 588 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 644 |
| 2005 | £186,000 | £331,005 | 489 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 798 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 962 |
| 2002 | £147,000 | £276,579 | 1,197 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 920 |
| 2000 | £98,200 | £192,718 | 724 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 580 |
| 1998 | £87,200 | £176,019 | 528 |
| 1997 | £82,400 | £168,986 | 424 |
| 1996 | £72,600 | £153,110 | 338 |
| 1995 | £68,800 | £149,561 | 336 |
In cash terms the typical RM16 6 home went from £68,800 in 1995 to £358,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RM16 6 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 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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 RM16 6
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 71 sales completed in RM16 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 790 sales a year before the financial crisis and 169 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.
Rents around RM16 6
RM16 6 falls under Thurrock, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,366 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £930 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,174 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Thurrock
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £358,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,366 a month (£16,392 a year) works out at a 4.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How RM16 6 trades
Within RM16, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
RM16 6 (Chafford Hundred): the questions that come up
Is RM16 6 (Chafford Hundred) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM16 6 (Chafford Hundred)?
Are property prices falling in RM16 6 (Chafford Hundred)?
Are RM16 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
On the market in RM16 today
Turning to what is actually available: 77 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM16 district, not just RM16 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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.
- Cardinal Road, Chafford Hundred, Gray...
- Chichester Close, Chafford Hundred, G...
- Mayflower Road, Chafford Hundred, Gra...
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every RM16 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: RM prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RM area. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, RM area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RM16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RM16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM16 2 | £430,000 | 58 |
| RM16 3 | £414,000 | 17 |
| RM16 4 | £365,000 | 41 |
| RM16 5 | £437,600 | 3 |
Zoom out to the full RM16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RM16 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM16 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM16 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM16 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RM16 6.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RM16 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RM16 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.