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Harold Wood market report RM3 7, Romford
The RM3 7 (Harold Wood) 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: 3,914 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM3 7 (Romford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical RM3 7 (Romford) home changed hands for £420,000 in 2026 (median of 35 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £438,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,790 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,914 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RM3 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM3 (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 RM3 7 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.
Today's RM3 7 prices, from the sold record
In the RM3 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £420,000, from 35 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £438,800, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in RM3 7
By floor space, homes in RM3 7 have sold for about £4,790 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RM3 7 47% above the country at large.
A typical RM3 7 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 94 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 101 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 86 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 119 |
| 2021 | £342,500 | £433,649 | 162 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 98 |
| 2019 | £321,000 | £420,754 | 116 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 107 |
| 2017 | £302,500 | £412,580 | 113 |
| 2016 | £305,000 | £426,698 | 158 |
| 2015 | £278,000 | £392,814 | 217 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 178 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 179 |
| 2012 | £177,000 | £260,522 | 83 |
| 2011 | £175,500 | £264,938 | 78 |
| 2010 | £182,200 | £285,737 | 62 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 61 |
| 2008 | £189,000 | £309,811 | 113 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 163 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 157 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 119 |
| 2004 | £156,500 | £284,235 | 158 |
| 2003 | £141,200 | £260,125 | 142 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 178 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 147 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 107 |
| 1999 | £70,500 | £140,503 | 135 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 128 |
| 1997 | £59,500 | £122,022 | 132 |
| 1996 | £53,300 | £112,407 | 114 |
| 1995 | £53,900 | £117,170 | 74 |
In cash terms the typical RM3 7 home went from £53,900 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 258%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM3 7 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 2002 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.7%). 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) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
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.
Sales activity in RM3 7
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 35 RM3 7 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 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 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.
Reading the RM3 7 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RM3 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around RM3 7
The local authority for RM3 7 is Havering, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,564 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,215 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,497 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Havering
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £420,000 median sold price, £1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: RM3 7 (Harold Wood)
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Where do RM3 7 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
RM3's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 65 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM3 district, not just RM3 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, RM area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RM3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RM3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM3 0 | £460,000 | 64 |
| 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 7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM3 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM3 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM3 7 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 RM3 7.
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The live map plots every individual RM3 7 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.
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.