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Gidea Park market report RM2, Romford
The RM2 (Gidea Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,686 registered sales in RM2 (Romford) 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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical RM2 (Romford) home changed hands for £487,500 in 2026 (median of 76 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £523,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,360 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,686 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district RM2 covering Gidea Park, Heath Park sits in Romford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where RM2 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 RM2
In the RM2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £487,500, from 76 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £523,000, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in RM2
Per square metre, RM2 homes have averaged around £5,360 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 sits 71% above the national market.
A typical RM2 home, priced year by year (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 | £487,500 | £487,500 | 76 |
| 2025 | £537,800 | £550,660 | 216 |
| 2024 | £492,500 | £523,629 | 199 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 177 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 273 |
| 2021 | £475,000 | £601,411 | 280 |
| 2020 | £470,000 | £609,835 | 187 |
| 2019 | £440,000 | £576,735 | 203 |
| 2018 | £405,000 | £539,873 | 194 |
| 2017 | £423,000 | £576,930 | 204 |
| 2016 | £365,500 | £511,338 | 212 |
| 2015 | £358,800 | £506,984 | 252 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 261 |
| 2013 | £266,500 | £383,467 | 238 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 171 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 209 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 198 |
| 2009 | £238,500 | £383,391 | 171 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 184 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 348 |
| 2006 | £242,500 | £420,949 | 356 |
| 2005 | £233,800 | £416,070 | 343 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 351 |
| 2003 | £169,000 | £311,339 | 367 |
| 2002 | £163,000 | £306,683 | 346 |
| 2001 | £152,500 | £293,173 | 260 |
| 2000 | £139,500 | £273,769 | 227 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 282 |
| 1998 | £107,400 | £216,795 | 234 |
| 1997 | £94,500 | £193,800 | 272 |
| 1996 | £83,800 | £176,730 | 216 |
| 1995 | £83,500 | £181,516 | 179 |
In cash terms the typical RM2 home went from £83,500 in 1995 to £487,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 169%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RM2 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 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.4%). 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) | −9.4% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £950,000 against £300,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, RM2
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 | £950,000 | 7 | 1,167 |
| Semi-detached | £582,500 | 30 | 2,327 |
| Terraced | £500,000 | 13 | 1,650 |
| Flats | £300,000 | 26 | 2,542 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 149 sales completed in RM2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 325 sales a year before the financial crisis and 188 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the RM2 market
This is a thin market: 149 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. Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, RM2 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of RM2
The local authority for RM2 is Havering, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,564 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,215 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,497, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Havering
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £487,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,564 a month (£18,768 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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 ask about RM2 (Gidea Park)
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What happens to RM2 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
RM2's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in RM2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the RM2 median sold price.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in RM
Real sold prices by size across the RM area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
RM2 ranks 17 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.
RM area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside RM2, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RM2 5 | £527,000 | 30 |
| RM2 6 | £470,000 | 46 |
How RM2 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 (this report) | £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 | £223,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in RM2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.