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Gidea Park market report RM2 6, Romford
The RM2 6 (Gidea Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,832 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM2 6 (Romford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the 2026 median for RM2 6 (Romford) is £470,000, from 46 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £524,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,220 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,832 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RM2 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM2 (Romford). 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 RM2 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.
RM2 6 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 46 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RM2 6 home went for £470,000. The mean is £524,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in RM2 6
Per square metre, RM2 6 homes have averaged around £5,220 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RM2 6 sits 65% above the national market.
A typical RM2 6 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £508,800 | £520,967 | 102 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 105 |
| 2023 | £433,000 | £475,761 | 98 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 156 |
| 2021 | £462,500 | £585,585 | 136 |
| 2020 | £470,000 | £609,835 | 77 |
| 2019 | £392,500 | £514,474 | 92 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 89 |
| 2017 | £370,000 | £504,643 | 111 |
| 2016 | £327,800 | £458,595 | 112 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 121 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 139 |
| 2013 | £260,000 | £374,114 | 112 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 78 |
| 2011 | £248,000 | £374,385 | 100 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 87 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 69 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 102 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 170 |
| 2006 | £221,500 | £384,496 | 187 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 180 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 173 |
| 2003 | £144,000 | £265,283 | 224 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 198 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 121 |
| 2000 | £141,000 | £276,713 | 112 |
| 1999 | £119,200 | £237,559 | 118 |
| 1998 | £104,500 | £210,941 | 104 |
| 1997 | £93,000 | £190,724 | 121 |
| 1996 | £87,200 | £183,901 | 116 |
| 1995 | £85,500 | £185,864 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical RM2 6 home went from £85,500 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 153%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RM2 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 2015 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−24.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RM2 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.6% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
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 register shows 46 RM2 6 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 171 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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.
Reading the RM2 6 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RM2 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 RM2 6
The local authority for RM2 6 is Havering, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,564 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,215 a month here against £2,497 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Havering
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £470,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,564 a month (£18,768 a year) works out at a 4.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people search before landing on RM2 6 (Gidea Park)
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reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £470,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What people ask about RM2 6 (Gidea Park)
Are property prices falling in RM2 6 (Gidea Park)?
Is RM2 6 (Gidea Park) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM2 6 (Gidea Park)?
What happens to RM2 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RM2's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM2 district, not just RM2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 RM2 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: RM prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RM area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
RM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RM2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RM2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM2 5 | £527,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full RM2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RM2 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM2 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM2 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM2 6 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 RM2 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RM2 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RM2 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.
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.