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Collier Row market report RM5, Romford
The RM5 (Collier Row) 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: 8,274 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RM5 (Romford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical RM5 (Romford) home changed hands for £430,000 in 2026 (median of 93 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £422,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,950 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,274 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RM5 is a postcode district covering Collier Row in Romford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where RM5 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 a home in RM5 sells for
The 2026 median for RM5 is £430,000, taken from 93 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £422,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in RM5
By floor space, homes in RM5 have sold for about £4,950 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RM5 trades 51% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RM5 home, 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 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £444,500 | £455,129 | 216 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 205 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 181 |
| 2022 | £432,200 | £506,804 | 222 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 340 |
| 2020 | £365,000 | £473,595 | 196 |
| 2019 | £355,000 | £465,320 | 222 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 266 |
| 2017 | £351,800 | £479,820 | 262 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 263 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 289 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 275 |
| 2013 | £224,500 | £323,033 | 238 |
| 2012 | £206,000 | £303,206 | 207 |
| 2011 | £202,500 | £305,697 | 186 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 209 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 187 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 186 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 409 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 398 |
| 2005 | £189,100 | £336,522 | 274 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 331 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 306 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 368 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 317 |
| 2000 | £106,500 | £209,006 | 278 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 293 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 281 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 286 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 246 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 244 |
In cash terms the typical RM5 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 209%, 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 RM5 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 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £527,500 against £262,500 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, RM5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £527,500 (2025) | – | 593 |
| Semi-detached | £475,000 | 45 | 3,532 |
| Terraced | £400,000 | 37 | 3,121 |
| Flats | £220,000 | 10 | 1,027 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 183 sales completed in RM5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 335 sales a year before the financial crisis and 183 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of RM5
For renting purposes RM5 sits in Havering. The ONS average private rent there is £1,564 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,215 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,497, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Havering
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £430,000 median sold price, £1,564 a month is £18,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
What people ask about RM5 (Collier Row)
How much did a house sell for in RM5 (Collier Row)?
Are property prices falling in RM5 (Collier Row)?
Is RM5 (Collier Row) a good place to buy a house?
Will RM5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What is for sale in RM5 right now
Everything above is what homes in RM5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 46 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the RM5 median sold price.
20% 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" 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in RM
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
RM5 ranks 13 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.
Winners and losers across the RM area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside RM5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RM5 2 | £426,000 | 47 |
| RM5 3 | £451,200 | 46 |
How RM5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RM area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RM4 | £570,000 | -8% |
| RM14 | £535,000 | -3% |
| RM11 | £498,000 | +8% |
| RM2 | £487,500 | +3% |
| RM12 | £475,000 | +12% |
| RM1 | £467,500 | +37% |
| RM6 | £435,000 | +9% |
| RM13 | £435,000 | +18% |
| RM5 (this report) | £430,000 | +10% |
| RM3 | £420,000 | +16% |
| RM7 | £420,000 | +10% |
| RM16 | £400,000 | +13% |
| RM10 | £390,000 | +15% |
| RM8 | £387,800 | +16% |
| RM9 | £372,500 | +13% |
| RM15 | £357,500 | +12% |
| RM18 | £332,500 | +16% |
| RM17 | £330,000 | +14% |
| RM20 | £305,200 | +15% |
| RM19 | £223,000 | -2% |
Thinking of selling in RM5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RM5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RM5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RM5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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See every individual RM5 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.
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.