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West Thurrock market report RM20 3, Grays
The RM20 3 (West Thurrock) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,661 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM20 3 (Grays) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical RM20 3 (Grays) home changed hands for £295,000 in 2026 (median of 17 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £295,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,661 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RM20 3 is one sector of RM20 (Grays): 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 RM20 3 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 RM20 3
17 sales were registered in RM20 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £295,000. The mean works out at £295,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in RM20 3
A square metre of RM20 3 home has cost about £4,390 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RM20 3 4% above the national figure.
A typical RM20 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £296,000 | £303,078 | 46 |
| 2024 | £284,000 | £301,950 | 28 |
| 2023 | £279,000 | £306,553 | 64 |
| 2022 | £268,000 | £314,261 | 169 |
| 2021 | £288,000 | £364,645 | 108 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 112 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 101 |
| 2018 | £355,000 | £473,222 | 61 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 55 |
| 2016 | £207,000 | £289,595 | 42 |
| 2015 | £177,000 | £250,101 | 44 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 37 |
| 2013 | £170,500 | £245,332 | 54 |
| 2012 | £189,000 | £278,184 | 48 |
| 2011 | £147,500 | £222,668 | 84 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 51 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 6 |
| 2008 | £164,500 | £269,650 | 18 |
| 2007 | £152,000 | £257,834 | 49 |
| 2006 | £141,000 | £244,758 | 38 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 44 |
| 2004 | £122,500 | £222,484 | 40 |
| 2003 | £116,500 | £214,621 | 38 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 43 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 42 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 49 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 53 |
| 1998 | £43,800 | £88,413 | 32 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 40 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 26 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 22 |
In cash terms the typical RM20 3 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 244%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 38% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RM20 3 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 2010 (+88.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−33.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.3% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 17 RM20 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 65 sales a year over the last five years against 43 before the financial crisis. 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 RM20 3 market
This is a thin market: 17 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. 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.
What homes rent for around RM20 3
The local authority for RM20 3 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 £295,000 median sold price, £1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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 questions people bring to RM20 3 (West Thurrock)
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as RM20 3NL or RM20 3AL or RM20 3AN. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
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.
Asked and answered: RM20 3 (West Thurrock)
How much did a house sell for in RM20 3 (West Thurrock)?
Are property prices falling in RM20 3 (West Thurrock)?
Is RM20 3 (West Thurrock) a good place to buy a house?
Where do RM20 3 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RM20's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 27 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM20 district, not just RM20 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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.
- Porter Close, Grays, Essex, RM20
- Hillcrest Avenue, Grays, Essex, RM20
- London Road, Grays, Essex, RM20
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 RM20 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 RM20
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RM20's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM20 4 | £334,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full RM20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM20 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RM20 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RM20 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the RM20 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RM20 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RM20 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RM20 3.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RM20 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RM20 3 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.