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West Thurrock market report RM20 4, Grays
The RM20 4 (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: 2,602 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM20 4 (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. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in RM20 4 (Grays) came in at £336,500, out of 19 registered, up 32% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £317,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,070 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,602 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
RM20 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM20 (Grays). 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 RM20 4 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 RM20 4 homes really sell for
The RM20 4 median stands at £336,500 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £317,500, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
What a square metre costs in RM20 4
A square metre of RM20 4 home has cost about £4,070 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RM20 4 sits 18% above the national market.
The price of a typical RM20 4 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £336,500 | £336,500 | 19 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 49 |
| 2024 | £322,000 | £342,352 | 35 |
| 2023 | £276,000 | £303,257 | 47 |
| 2022 | £294,000 | £344,749 | 50 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 101 |
| 2020 | £352,000 | £456,727 | 83 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 54 |
| 2018 | £219,500 | £292,598 | 58 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 59 |
| 2016 | £209,000 | £292,393 | 95 |
| 2015 | £173,000 | £244,449 | 132 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 83 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 96 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 130 |
| 2011 | £142,000 | £214,365 | 30 |
| 2010 | £129,500 | £203,089 | 28 |
| 2009 | £132,200 | £212,513 | 24 |
| 2008 | £123,000 | £201,623 | 43 |
| 2007 | £141,000 | £239,175 | 97 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 103 |
| 2005 | £124,500 | £221,560 | 92 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 142 |
| 2003 | £103,000 | £189,751 | 111 |
| 2002 | £75,500 | £142,053 | 148 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 137 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 127 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 90 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 85 |
| 1997 | £35,100 | £71,983 | 88 |
| 1996 | £26,000 | £54,833 | 101 |
| 1995 | £27,000 | £58,694 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical RM20 4 home went from £27,000 in 1995 to £336,500 in 2026, roughly 12 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 473%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. 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 RM20 4 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 2020 (+63.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−27.6%). 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 year (since 2025) | +12.2% | +9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.7% | +0.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −0.7% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RM20 4
Sales per year, counted
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 19 RM20 4 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 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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 RM20 4 market
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RM20 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within RM20, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of RM20 4
For renting purposes RM20 4 sits in Thurrock. The ONS average private rent there is £1,366 a month (May 2026). 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 £336,500 median sold price, £1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
Common questions on RM20 4 (West Thurrock)
Are property prices falling in RM20 4 (West Thurrock)?
Is RM20 4 (West Thurrock) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM20 4 (West Thurrock)?
What happens to RM20 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 4% 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RM: the cost
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 | £410,000 | £450,000 (+10%) | £500,000 (+11%) | £595,000 (+19%) | £763,750 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £365,000 | £415,000 (+14%) | £460,000 (+11%) | £568,000 (+23%) | £711,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £285,000 | £360,000 (+26%) | £400,000 (+11%) | £450,000 (+13%) | £512,000 (+14%) |
| Flat | £190,000 | £255,000 (+34%) | £295,000 (+16%) | — | — |
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
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RM20, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM20 3 | £295,000 | 23 |
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 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM20 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM20 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM20 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RM20 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual RM20 4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.