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Havering-atte-Bower market report RM4 1, Romford
The RM4 1 (Havering-atte-Bower) 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: 1,996 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM4 1 (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: 15 registered 2026 sales put the RM4 1 (Romford) median at £570,000, down 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £672,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,780 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,996 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RM4 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM4 (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 RM4 1 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.
The going rate for a home in RM4 1
15 sales were registered in RM4 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £570,000. The mean works out at £672,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in RM4 1
By floor space, homes in RM4 1 have sold for about £5,780 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RM4 1 100% above the national figure.
RM4 1's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £570,000 | £570,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £600,000 | £614,348 | 68 |
| 2024 | £675,000 | £717,664 | 51 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 52 |
| 2022 | £555,000 | £650,801 | 66 |
| 2021 | £620,000 | £785,000 | 93 |
| 2020 | £535,000 | £694,174 | 45 |
| 2019 | £535,000 | £701,257 | 42 |
| 2018 | £480,000 | £639,849 | 41 |
| 2017 | £472,500 | £644,443 | 44 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 77 |
| 2015 | £460,000 | £649,980 | 77 |
| 2014 | £375,000 | £532,003 | 56 |
| 2013 | £360,000 | £518,004 | 63 |
| 2012 | £335,000 | £493,078 | 39 |
| 2011 | £313,000 | £472,510 | 47 |
| 2010 | £335,000 | £525,366 | 45 |
| 2009 | £377,500 | £606,834 | 30 |
| 2008 | £381,200 | £624,867 | 40 |
| 2007 | £318,000 | £539,417 | 80 |
| 2006 | £316,500 | £549,404 | 78 |
| 2005 | £310,000 | £551,675 | 73 |
| 2004 | £307,500 | £558,480 | 83 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 79 |
| 2002 | £239,000 | £449,676 | 105 |
| 2001 | £186,200 | £357,960 | 100 |
| 2000 | £171,500 | £336,569 | 69 |
| 1999 | £162,500 | £323,854 | 75 |
| 1998 | £141,500 | £285,628 | 66 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 74 |
| 1996 | £141,200 | £297,784 | 63 |
| 1995 | £74,400 | £161,734 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical RM4 1 home went from £74,400 in 1995 to £570,000 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. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM4 1 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 1996 (+89.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−11.3%). 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) | −5.0% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RM4 1
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 15 RM4 1 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 83 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
What kind of market RM4 1 is
This is a thin market: 15 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 tenants pay around RM4 1
The local authority for RM4 1 is Epping Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,842 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,228 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,879 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Epping Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, which against the £570,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
RM4 1 (Havering-atte-Bower): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in RM4 1 (Havering-atte-Bower)?
Are property prices falling in RM4 1 (Havering-atte-Bower)?
Is RM4 1 (Havering-atte-Bower) a good place to buy a house?
Will RM4 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in RM4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 12 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM4 district, not just RM4 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 RM4 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in RM: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RM area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full RM4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RM4 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM4 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM4 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM4 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RM4 1.
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See every individual RM4 1 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.