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Harold Wood market report RM3 9, Romford
The standing RM3 9 (Harold Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,805 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM3 9 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in RM3 9 (Romford) sold for £405,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £404,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,805 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RM3 9 is one sector of RM3 (Romford): 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 RM3 9 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 RM3 9 homes really sell for
In the RM3 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £405,000, from 41 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £404,600, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
RM3 9 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put RM3 9 at roughly £4,630 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RM3 9 sits 42% above the national market.
The price of a typical RM3 9 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £416,000 | £425,948 | 119 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 106 |
| 2023 | £416,500 | £457,632 | 82 |
| 2022 | £405,000 | £474,909 | 105 |
| 2021 | £362,500 | £458,972 | 131 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 85 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 114 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 123 |
| 2017 | £317,500 | £433,038 | 126 |
| 2016 | £305,000 | £426,698 | 139 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 247 |
| 2014 | £237,000 | £336,226 | 175 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 112 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 88 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 94 |
| 2010 | £163,800 | £256,881 | 82 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 91 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 103 |
| 2007 | £189,600 | £321,614 | 188 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 169 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 123 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 139 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 125 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 147 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 123 |
| 2000 | £83,000 | £162,888 | 110 |
| 1999 | £68,500 | £136,517 | 131 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 96 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 114 |
| 1996 | £53,800 | £113,462 | 92 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical RM3 9 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 252%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RM3 9 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 2014 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.8%). 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) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
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.
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 41 RM3 9 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 141 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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.
What kind of market RM3 9 is
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RM3 9 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 9
For renting purposes RM3 9 sits in Havering. The ONS average private rent there is £1,564 a month (May 2026). 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 £405,000 median sold price, £1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
Common questions on RM3 9 (Harold Wood)
Are property prices falling in RM3 9 (Harold Wood)?
Is RM3 9 (Harold Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM3 9 (Harold Wood)?
What happens to RM3 9 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every RM3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RM prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RM area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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 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 7 | £420,000 | 35 |
| RM3 8 | £382,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full RM3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RM3 9? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM3 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM3 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM3 9 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 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RM3 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RM3 9 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.