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Badgers Dene market report RM17, Grays
The standing RM17 (Badgers Dene) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 17,198 registered sales in RM17 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 117 registered 2026 sales put the RM17 (Grays) median at £330,000, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £337,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,350 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 17,198 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RM17 is a postcode district covering Grays, Badgers Dene in Grays. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where RM17 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.
RM17 sold prices: where the market stands
117 sales were registered in RM17 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £330,000. The mean works out at £337,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
RM17 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in RM17 have sold for about £4,350 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RM17 16% above the country at large.
RM17's median sold price, 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 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 117 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 345 |
| 2024 | £303,000 | £322,151 | 277 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 265 |
| 2022 | £325,500 | £381,686 | 350 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 459 |
| 2020 | £262,800 | £340,988 | 292 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 391 |
| 2018 | £262,000 | £349,251 | 538 |
| 2017 | £252,500 | £344,385 | 475 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 479 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 485 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 471 |
| 2013 | £157,200 | £226,195 | 366 |
| 2012 | £154,000 | £226,669 | 329 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 292 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 302 |
| 2009 | £147,000 | £236,304 | 237 |
| 2008 | £156,000 | £255,717 | 317 |
| 2007 | £157,500 | £267,164 | 834 |
| 2006 | £156,000 | £270,796 | 867 |
| 2005 | £146,000 | £259,821 | 794 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 815 |
| 2003 | £117,200 | £215,911 | 792 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 898 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 883 |
| 2000 | £70,200 | £137,768 | 1,052 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 876 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 682 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 669 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 778 |
| 1995 | £44,400 | £96,519 | 471 |
In cash terms the typical RM17 home went from £44,400 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 242%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RM17 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 2003 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.8%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £465,000 against £190,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, RM17
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 | £465,000 | 10 | 1,300 |
| Semi-detached | £385,000 | 31 | 3,183 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 51 | 6,488 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 25 | 6,227 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
RM17 recorded 264 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 867 sales a year before the financial crisis and 271 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 RM17
RM17 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.
Set against the £330,000 median sold price, £1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
The shape of the RM17 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. In its area's price order RM17 comes 18 of 20, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: RM17 (Badgers Dene)
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What happens to RM17 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
RM17's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in RM17 sold for. The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the RM17 median sold price.
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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in RM: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the RM area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
RM17 ranks 8 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.
Winners and losers across the RM area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside RM17, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM17 5 | £360,000 | 53 |
| RM17 6 | £306,500 | 64 |
How RM17 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 | £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 (this report) | £330,000 | +14% |
| RM20 | £305,200 | +15% |
| RM19 | £223,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in RM17: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RM17's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RM17.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RM17. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RM17 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.
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.