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Purfleet market report RM19
The standing RM19 (Purfleet) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,956 HM Land Registry entries for RM19 (Purfleet), 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in RM19 (Purfleet) sold for £223,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £247,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,080 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,956 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RM19 is a postcode district covering Purfleet in Purfleet. 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 RM19 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 buyers actually paid in RM19
In the RM19 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £223,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £247,200, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
RM19 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RM19 costs about £4,080 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RM19 runs 22% below it.
The price of a typical RM19 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 | £223,000 | £223,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £231,200 | £236,729 | 76 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 75 |
| 2023 | £233,000 | £256,010 | 77 |
| 2022 | £231,200 | £271,108 | 108 |
| 2021 | £226,500 | £286,778 | 122 |
| 2020 | £217,000 | £281,562 | 70 |
| 2019 | £211,000 | £276,571 | 92 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 129 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 144 |
| 2016 | £192,500 | £269,309 | 169 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 156 |
| 2014 | £147,000 | £208,545 | 134 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 93 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 85 |
| 2011 | £137,000 | £206,817 | 110 |
| 2010 | £128,000 | £200,737 | 85 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 59 |
| 2008 | £154,000 | £252,439 | 136 |
| 2007 | £151,500 | £256,986 | 306 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 378 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 418 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 275 |
| 2003 | £117,400 | £216,279 | 240 |
| 2002 | £82,500 | £155,223 | 261 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 180 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 202 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 161 |
| 1998 | £53,500 | £107,994 | 179 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 167 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 112 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 134 |
In cash terms the typical RM19 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £223,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 202%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM19 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 (+55.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.9%). 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) | −3.5% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. In 2017, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £325,000 against £184,200 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, RM19
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 | £325,000 (2017) | – | 89 |
| Semi-detached | £382,500 (2025) | – | 397 |
| Terraced | £285,000 | 9 | 1,495 |
| Flats | £217,000 | 13 | 2,925 |
Sales activity in RM19
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 49 sales completed in RM19. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 283 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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 kind of market RM19 is
This is a thin market: 49 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. RM19 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What tenants pay around RM19
The local authority for RM19 is Thurrock, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,366 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £930 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,174, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Thurrock
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £223,000 median sold price, £1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, a gross yield of 7.4%: 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 RM19 (Purfleet)
Are property prices falling in RM19 (Purfleet)?
Is RM19 (Purfleet) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM19 (Purfleet)?
Will RM19 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
On the market in RM19 today
Everything above is what homes in RM19 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 19 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% below the RM19 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
See every RM19 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
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
RM19 ranks 18 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside RM19, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM19 1 | £223,000 | 23 |
How RM19 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 | £330,000 | +14% |
| RM20 | £305,200 | +15% |
| RM19 (this report) | £223,000 | -2% |
Selling a home in RM19? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM19, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM19's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM19 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working RM19: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RM19.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual RM19 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.
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.