Price study · East of England · 2026

Property prices in Colchester.

The median sold price in Colchester is £325,000, -1.2% year on year, across 2,444 HM Land Registry transactions in the last 12 months.

Median sold price
£325,000
Last 12 months · all types
Year on year
-1.2%
Median vs prior 12 months
Recorded sales
2,444
HMLR transactions, 12 months

Sold-price trend

Median sold price over time · monthly · hover or tap the line for the figure
Median sold-price trend for Colchester
MonthMedian sold priceSales
2024-01£321,000248
2024-02£310,000284
2024-03£315,000289
2024-04£325,000247
2024-05£325,000329
2024-06£330,000340
2024-07£330,000352
2024-08£325,000395
2024-09£335,000309
2024-10£317,500444
2024-11£315,000373
2024-12£338,000405
2025-01£332,500293
2025-02£344,500374
2025-03£343,000729
2025-04£304,997158
2025-05£330,000249
2025-06£323,000375
2025-07£335,000406
2025-08£335,000350
2025-09£335,000303
2025-10£325,000373
2025-11£325,000281
2025-12£312,000281
2026-01£320,000232
2026-02£325,000232
2026-03£320,000217
2026-04£305,000183
2026-05£317,87598
2026-060
2026-070
2026-080

Price by property type

TypeMedianSales
Detached £450,000 787
Semi-detached £325,000 711
Terraced £270,000 537
Flat / maisonette £165,000 343
Other £411,250 66

Outcodes — highest & lowest

Min 5 sales
Top 5
CO6£394,000
CO5£375,000
CO3£350,000
CO7£330,000
CO4£322,500
Bottom 5
CO1£225,000
CO2£270,000
CO4£322,500
CO7£330,000
CO3£350,000
The spread between the top and bottom postcode district is why street-level valuation beats the city average.

What's selling now vs two years ago

TypeNow2y agoChange
Detached 32.2% 35.0% -2.8 pp
Semi-detached 29.1% 26.7% +2.4 pp
Terraced 22.0% 19.4% +2.6 pp
Flat / maisonette 14.0% 14.8% -0.8 pp
Other 2.7% 4.1% -1.4 pp

Most recent recorded sales

HM Land Registry · addresses abbreviated
OutcodeStreetTypeTenureSoldPrice
CO2 Cromwell Road, Colchester Terraced Freehold 2026-05-27 £207,500
CO5 Carolina Way, Colchester Terraced Freehold 2026-05-22 £285,000
CO2 Pownall Crescent, Colchester Semi-detached Freehold 2026-05-22 £360,000
CO4 Axial Drive, Colchester Flat / maisonette Leasehold 2026-05-22 £190,000
CO5 Oxton Close, Colchester Flat / maisonette Leasehold 2026-05-22 £170,000
CO4 Bergholt Road, Colchester Detached Freehold 2026-05-21 £530,000
CO4 Gardenia Walk, Colchester Flat / maisonette Leasehold 2026-05-21 £120,000
CO4 Hakewill Way, Colchester Flat / maisonette Leasehold 2026-05-21 £192,000
CO1 Old Heath Road, Colchester Terraced Freehold 2026-05-21 £326,000
CO5 Ivy Grove, Colchester Detached Freehold 2026-05-21 £475,000
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FAQ: property prices in Colchester

What is the average property price in Colchester?

Based on HM Land Registry sold-price data from the last 12 months, the median sold price in Colchester is £325,000 across 2,444 recorded transactions. Prices are -1.2% year on year. See the table on this page for a breakdown by property type.

How much is my property worth in Colchester?

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Where does Colchester property-price data come from?

All medians, means and recent sold prices on this page are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, published monthly under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Offrly adds no markup or adjustment to the raw public figures.

Are property prices rising or falling in Colchester?

Over the last 12 months the Colchester median is -1.2% compared to the prior 12 months. See the 2-year monthly trend on this page for the shape.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0. Offrly estimates are indicative market guidance — not regulated valuations and not financial, tax or legal advice.

How these numbers are calculated

Every figure on this page comes from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (HMLR), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. No assumptions or proprietary models are layered on top — this is unmodified HMLR truth.

  1. Median sold price (hero). The middle value of every Colchester sale recorded in HMLR Price Paid Data over the last 12 months. Median (rather than mean) is used because it isn't skewed by individual high-value sales.
  2. Year-on-year change. Formula: (medianlast 12mo − medianprior 12mo) ÷ medianprior 12mo. Both medians come from HMLR Price Paid Data.
  3. Recorded transactions. Count of HMLR records for Colchester in the last 12 months. The HMLR sale-to-registration lag typically runs 2 weeks to 2 months, so the most recent 1–2 months are necessarily incomplete and may revise upward.
  4. 5-year monthly trend. Median sold price for each calendar month, drawn from HMLR Price Paid Data. Faded bars are months below HMLR's ~4–6 week registration cutoff or before our ingest window starts.
  5. Price by property type. Same median calculation as the hero, grouped by HMLR's property-type code (Detached / Semi / Terraced / Flat / Other). A type-specific median is suppressed when fewer than 5 transactions are recorded for the type so a single sale doesn't dominate the figure.
  6. Postcode breakdown (top / bottom). For each postcode within Colchester, the median of HMLR sales over the last 12 months. Postcodes with fewer than 5 recorded sales are excluded so the leaderboard reflects genuine market segments rather than one-off transactions.
  7. Mix shift (now vs. two years ago). Share of HMLR transactions by property type in the last 12 months minus the share in the 12 months starting 24 months ago. Reported in percentage points (pp).
  8. Recent sold comparables. The 10 most recent records for Colchester from HMLR Open Data. Each row is a real recorded sale; addresses are abbreviated (no house number) for the open dataset.