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Harold Wood market report RM3 0, Romford
The RM3 0 (Harold Wood) 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: 6,681 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM3 0 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in RM3 0 (Romford) sold for £460,000 in 2026, the median of 64 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £486,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,240 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,681 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like RM3 0 is a single group of streets within RM3 (Romford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RM3 0 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 RM3 0
The 2026 median for RM3 0 is £460,000, taken from 64 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £486,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in RM3 0
Per square metre, RM3 0 homes have averaged around £5,240 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RM3 0 trades 61% above the country as a whole.
A typical RM3 0 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £460,000 | £460,000 | 64 |
| 2025 | £430,000 | £440,283 | 173 |
| 2024 | £416,200 | £442,506 | 186 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 161 |
| 2022 | £435,000 | £510,087 | 199 |
| 2021 | £403,500 | £510,883 | 242 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 174 |
| 2019 | £385,000 | £504,643 | 189 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 332 |
| 2017 | £370,000 | £504,643 | 298 |
| 2016 | £360,100 | £503,783 | 258 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 268 |
| 2014 | £257,200 | £364,883 | 264 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 197 |
| 2012 | £233,500 | £343,683 | 136 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 124 |
| 2010 | £225,500 | £353,642 | 150 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 116 |
| 2008 | £228,000 | £373,740 | 113 |
| 2007 | £222,500 | £377,422 | 241 |
| 2006 | £208,000 | £361,061 | 231 |
| 2005 | £187,000 | £332,785 | 168 |
| 2004 | £176,200 | £320,014 | 266 |
| 2003 | £166,000 | £305,812 | 247 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 237 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 264 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 202 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 267 |
| 1998 | £79,000 | £159,467 | 222 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 256 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 217 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical RM3 0 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £460,000 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 2021. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM3 0 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 2016 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.9%). 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) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
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 64 RM3 0 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 232 sales a year before the financial crisis and 157 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of RM3 0
The local authority for RM3 0 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.
Set against the £460,000 median sold price, £1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
Reading the RM3 0 market
Within RM3, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
RM3 0 (Harold Wood): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in RM3 0 (Harold Wood)?
Is RM3 0 (Harold Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM3 0 (Harold Wood)?
Where do RM3 0 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 RM3 today
Turning to what is actually available: 65 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM3 district, not just RM3 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 RM3 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.
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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
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.
Other sectors in RM3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RM3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM3 7 | £420,000 | 35 |
| RM3 8 | £382,500 | 36 |
| RM3 9 | £405,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full RM3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RM3 0? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RM3 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the RM3 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RM3 0 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RM3 0.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RM3 0. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RM3 0 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.
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.