Grays house prices

Grays house prices are built from 45,553 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +41.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.0%.

HM Land Registry45,553 sales7,928 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Grays house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Grays is £362,500 in 2026; the lowest is £52,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £54,635 to £362,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £121,314, so the real change over the whole record is +198.8% — about +3.59% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +41.1% in cash against +1.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Grays values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Grays is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 8,935 certificates cover Grays, and their median floor area is 71 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

12,522 of the sales on record are leasehold and 33,031 freehold — 27.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £120,000 and the median freehold sale £184,000 — a gap of +53.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -16.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,955 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Thurrock, 47.3% of 74,813 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Thurrock at £1,372 a month as of Jun 2026 — £935 for a one-bedroom home and £1,464 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £160,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.29% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of RM16, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 3 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 176,001 residents the 2021 census counted in Thurrock, that is 0.86 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 176,001 residents in Thurrock across 66,377 households. 64.0% of those households own their home and 36.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a RM16 postcode: 11 primary, 4 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Grays sits above that national figure — +1.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,200 per square metre, across 7,928 of the 45,553 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £200 to £1,485,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Grays sits in Thurrock, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Thurrock at 8.7 times median local earnings of £40,623 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Grays

• Argent Street787 sales
• London Road680 sales
• Rectory Road536 sales
• Parsonage Road515 sales
• Lewes Close497 sales
• Dudley Close458 sales
• Hogg Lane429 sales
• Conway Gardens423 sales
• Drake Road412 sales
• Francisco Close371 sales
• Sewell Close360 sales
• Southwell Close354 sales
• Long Lane352 sales
• Swiftsure Road344 sales
• Lodge Lane332 sales
• Gilbert Road331 sales
• Grifon Road328 sales
• Bridge Road322 sales
• Falcon Avenue317 sales
• Plymouth Road316 sales
• Blackshots Lane293 sales
• Sachfield Drive291 sales
• Welling Road276 sales
• St Leonards Close273 sales
• Curling Lane252 sales
• Fleming Road251 sales
• Timber Court251 sales
• Jetty Walk245 sales
• Hawkins Drive243 sales
• Cole Avenue240 sales
• Hill House Drive239 sales
• Bankfoot235 sales
• Porter Close231 sales
• Crest Avenue230 sales
• Whitehall Lane222 sales
• William Street220 sales
• Kent Road219 sales
• Alderton Road218 sales
• Clifford Road218 sales
• Grenville Road217 sales
• High Road216 sales
• Calshot Avenue214 sales
• Celedon Close211 sales
• Palmers Drive211 sales
• Heathview Road208 sales
• Hemley Road206 sales
• Crammavill Street205 sales
• Swallow Close205 sales
• Draper Close204 sales
• Rawlyn Close204 sales
• Salisbury Road204 sales
• Mayflower Road198 sales
• Galleon Road196 sales
• Coal Court195 sales
• Frobisher Gardens194 sales
• Daniel Close186 sales
• Lennox Close182 sales
• Malthouse Drive181 sales
• Maunder Close181 sales
• Bruces Wharf Road179 sales

Postcode districts covering Grays

• RM16£184,000 median
• RM17£132,000 median
• RM20£140,000 median

What is the average house price in Grays?

The median price paid in Grays across every sale on the register is £160,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Grays?

45,553 sales are on record for Grays, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Grays house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +41.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Grays house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £362,500, set in 2026. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Grays?

£2,200 per square metre, from the 7,928 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Grays house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.