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Collier Row market report RM5 3, Romford
The RM5 3 (Collier Row) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,462 HM Land Registry entries for RM5 3 (Romford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in RM5 3 (Romford) sold for £451,200 in 2026, the median of 46 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £436,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,000 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,462 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RM5 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RM5 (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 RM5 3 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 RM5 3 homes really sell for
In the RM5 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £451,200, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £436,200, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in RM5 3
By floor space, homes in RM5 3 have sold for about £5,000 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 RM5 3 58% above the country at large.
The price of a typical RM5 3 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 | £451,200 | £451,200 | 46 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 118 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 119 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 100 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 121 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 172 |
| 2020 | £365,000 | £473,595 | 112 |
| 2019 | £355,000 | £465,320 | 126 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 147 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 134 |
| 2016 | £336,100 | £470,207 | 128 |
| 2015 | £282,500 | £399,173 | 162 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 144 |
| 2013 | £226,000 | £325,191 | 130 |
| 2012 | £201,000 | £295,847 | 106 |
| 2011 | £197,000 | £297,394 | 105 |
| 2010 | £212,700 | £333,568 | 110 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 108 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 85 |
| 2007 | £222,500 | £377,422 | 225 |
| 2006 | £193,000 | £335,023 | 199 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 149 |
| 2004 | £183,200 | £332,727 | 172 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 149 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 195 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 177 |
| 2000 | £104,000 | £204,100 | 149 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 175 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 157 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 150 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 145 |
| 1995 | £62,500 | £135,865 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical RM5 3 home went from £62,500 in 1995 to £451,200 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 232%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RM5 3 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 2000 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RM5 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.3% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in RM5 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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.
How RM5 3 trades
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RM5 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of RM5 3
RM5 3 falls under Havering, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, which against the £451,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
Common questions on RM5 3 (Collier Row)
Is RM5 3 (Collier Row) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RM5 3 (Collier Row)?
Are property prices falling in RM5 3 (Collier Row)?
What happens to RM5 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RM5's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 46 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RM5 district, not just RM5 3: 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" 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 RM5 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. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 RM5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RM5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM5 2 | £426,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full RM5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RM5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RM5 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RM5 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the RM5 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RM5 3 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 RM5 3.
Dig further
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See every individual RM5 3 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.