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Badgers Dene market report RM17 5, Grays
The standing RM17 5 (Badgers Dene) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,055 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM17 5 (Grays) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for RM17 5 (Grays) is £360,000, from 53 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £387,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,440 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,055 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RM17 5 is one sector of RM17 (Grays): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where RM17 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.
What RM17 5 homes really sell for
53 sales were registered in RM17 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £360,000. The mean works out at £387,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in RM17 5
A square metre of RM17 5 home has cost about £4,440 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RM17 5 sits 26% above the national market.
RM17 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £360,000 | £360,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £350,400 | £358,779 | 158 |
| 2024 | £355,000 | £377,438 | 117 |
| 2023 | £332,500 | £365,336 | 122 |
| 2022 | £348,000 | £408,070 | 166 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 218 |
| 2020 | £292,000 | £378,876 | 145 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 211 |
| 2018 | £302,000 | £402,572 | 306 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 228 |
| 2016 | £261,000 | £365,142 | 202 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 203 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 221 |
| 2013 | £169,000 | £243,174 | 154 |
| 2012 | £167,800 | £246,981 | 142 |
| 2011 | £171,200 | £258,446 | 128 |
| 2010 | £161,000 | £252,489 | 135 |
| 2009 | £162,500 | £261,220 | 105 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 134 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 347 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 289 |
| 2005 | £156,100 | £277,795 | 306 |
| 2004 | £147,500 | £267,889 | 291 |
| 2003 | £132,100 | £243,360 | 298 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 299 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 329 |
| 2000 | £74,500 | £146,206 | 308 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 322 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 294 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 300 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 317 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 207 |
In cash terms the typical RM17 5 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 225%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RM17 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 2002 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−7.3%). 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) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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 RM17 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.
RM17 5 recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 308 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 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.
What tenants pay around RM17 5
For renting purposes RM17 5 sits in Thurrock. The ONS average private rent there is £1,366 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £930 a month here against £2,174 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Thurrock
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, which against the £360,000 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.
Reading the RM17 5 market
Only 53 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RM17 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within RM17, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on RM17 5 (Badgers Dene)
How much did a house sell for in RM17 5 (Badgers Dene)?
Are property prices falling in RM17 5 (Badgers Dene)?
Is RM17 5 (Badgers Dene) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to RM17 5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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 is for sale in RM17 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 61 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM17 district, not just RM17 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 RM17 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 RM: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RM area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the RM area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RM17
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RM17, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM17 6 | £306,500 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full RM17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM17 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RM17 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM17 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM17 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM17 5 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 RM17 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RM17 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual RM17 5 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.