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East Tilbury market report RM18 8, Tilbury
The RM18 8 (East Tilbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,380 HM Land Registry entries for RM18 8 (Tilbury), 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 middle 2026 sale in RM18 8 (Tilbury) came in at £342,500, out of 48 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £321,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,080 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,380 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
RM18 8 is one sector of RM18 (Tilbury): 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 RM18 8 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.
Today's RM18 8 prices, from the sold record
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in RM18 8 and the middle price, the median, is £342,500. The mean lands at £321,400, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
What a square metre costs in RM18 8
Per square metre, RM18 8 homes have averaged around £4,080 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RM18 8 trades 20% above the country as a whole.
RM18 8'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 | £342,500 | £342,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 154 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 108 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 88 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 114 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 140 |
| 2020 | £271,000 | £351,628 | 140 |
| 2019 | £264,000 | £346,041 | 137 |
| 2018 | £266,200 | £354,850 | 134 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 199 |
| 2016 | £247,000 | £345,555 | 259 |
| 2015 | £198,000 | £279,774 | 193 |
| 2014 | £161,000 | £228,407 | 155 |
| 2013 | £146,000 | £210,079 | 93 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 97 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 80 |
| 2010 | £137,500 | £215,635 | 87 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 57 |
| 2008 | £153,500 | £251,619 | 96 |
| 2007 | £151,000 | £256,138 | 258 |
| 2006 | £143,000 | £248,230 | 220 |
| 2005 | £138,500 | £246,474 | 215 |
| 2004 | £128,500 | £233,381 | 237 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 288 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 292 |
| 2001 | £64,500 | £123,998 | 287 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 238 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 219 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 192 |
| 1997 | £39,000 | £79,981 | 200 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 196 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical RM18 8 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £342,500 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 315%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% 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 RM18 8 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RM18 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RM18 8
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 48 RM18 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 254 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
What homes rent for around RM18 8
The local authority for RM18 8 is Thurrock, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,366 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £342,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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 RM18 8 market
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
What people ask about RM18 8 (East Tilbury)
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Where do RM18 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in RM18 now
The live side of the market holds 26 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM18 district, not just RM18 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 46% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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.
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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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RM prices by size
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.
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 RM18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RM18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM18 7 | £325,000 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full RM18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RM18 8: 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 RM18 8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RM18 8.
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The live map plots every individual RM18 8 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.