Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,126 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM4 (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 data to March 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
RM4 is the postcode district covering Havering-atte-Bower, Abridge, Stapleford Abbotts in Romford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where RM4 sits
Click the map to open RM4 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£672,500median sold price, 2026
+4%five-year change (cash)
93sales in the last 12 months
3.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in RM4 sells for
The 2026 median in RM4 is £672,500, from 12 registered sales; the mean, £749,200, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so RM4 trades 145% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RM4 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£672,500
£672,500
12
2025
£620,000
£620,000
89
2024
£680,000
£706,095
65
2023
£520,000
£558,009
62
2022
£555,000
£635,602
80
2021
£645,000
£797,581
104
2020
£535,000
£677,961
59
2019
£550,000
£704,082
51
2018
£480,000
£624,906
56
2017
£485,000
£646,042
57
2016
£475,000
£649,010
83
2015
£445,000
£614,100
80
2014
£375,000
£519,578
59
2013
£360,000
£505,906
63
2012
£335,000
£481,563
39
2011
£313,000
£461,474
47
2010
£335,000
£513,097
45
2009
£377,500
£592,662
30
2008
£381,200
£610,274
40
2007
£318,000
£526,819
80
2006
£316,500
£536,572
78
2005
£310,000
£538,791
73
2004
£307,500
£545,437
83
2003
£250,000
£449,804
79
2002
£239,000
£439,174
105
2001
£186,200
£349,600
100
2000
£171,500
£328,708
69
1999
£162,500
£316,291
75
1998
£141,500
£278,957
66
1997
£130,000
£260,377
74
1996
£141,200
£290,830
63
1995
£74,400
£157,957
60
In cash terms the typical RM4 home went from £74,400 in 1995 to £672,500 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 326%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RM4 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, 2022 (−14.0%). 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)
+8.5%
+8.5%
5 years (since 2021)
+0.8%
−3.4%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.5%
+0.4%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.8%
+1.1%
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.
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
RM4 recorded 93 sales in the last 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 62 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 homes rent for around RM4
RM4 falls under Epping Forest, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,842 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,228 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,879, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Epping Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £672,500 median sold price, £1,842 a month is £22,104 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
Will RM4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
RM4 ranks 18 of 20 in the RM area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside RM4, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.