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Badgers Dene market report RM17 6, Grays
The RM17 6 (Badgers Dene) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 10,143 registered sales in RM17 6 (Grays) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical RM17 6 (Grays) home changed hands for £306,500 in 2026 (median of 64 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £295,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,260 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 10,143 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RM17 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM17 (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 RM17 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.
What RM17 6 homes really sell for
64 sales were registered in RM17 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £306,500. The mean works out at £295,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
RM17 6 prices by floor area
A square metre of RM17 6 home has cost about £4,260 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RM17 6 runs 8% above it.
The price of a typical RM17 6 home, 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 | £306,500 | £306,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 187 |
| 2024 | £268,500 | £285,471 | 160 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 143 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 184 |
| 2021 | £279,500 | £353,883 | 241 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 147 |
| 2019 | £241,000 | £315,893 | 180 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 232 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 247 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 277 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 282 |
| 2014 | £148,000 | £209,964 | 250 |
| 2013 | £145,500 | £209,360 | 212 |
| 2012 | £144,500 | £212,686 | 187 |
| 2011 | £135,500 | £204,553 | 164 |
| 2010 | £140,500 | £220,340 | 167 |
| 2009 | £137,800 | £221,515 | 132 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 183 |
| 2007 | £149,000 | £252,745 | 487 |
| 2006 | £150,500 | £261,249 | 578 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 488 |
| 2004 | £126,000 | £228,841 | 524 |
| 2003 | £111,200 | £204,857 | 494 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 599 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 554 |
| 2000 | £68,600 | £134,628 | 744 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 554 |
| 1998 | £45,200 | £91,239 | 388 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 369 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 461 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 264 |
In cash terms the typical RM17 6 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £306,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 252%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. 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 RM17 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 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−5.8%). 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) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 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.
Sales activity in RM17 6
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
RM17 6 recorded 64 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 559 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 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.
Reading the RM17 6 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of RM17 6
For renting purposes RM17 6 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.
Set against the £306,500 median sold price, £1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
What people ask about RM17 6 (Badgers Dene)
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Where do RM17 6 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 RM17 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in RM
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RM area, 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 5 | £360,000 | 53 |
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 6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RM17 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the RM17 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RM17 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RM17 6.
Go deeper
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See every individual RM17 6 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.