Loughton house prices

Loughton house prices are built from 18,194 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +21.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.0%.

HM Land Registry18,194 sales4,290 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Loughton 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 Loughton is £510,000 in 2025; the lowest is £80,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £80,000 to £510,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £177,638, so the real change over the whole record is +187.1% — about +3.46% 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: +21.4% in cash against -13.0% 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 Loughton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Loughton 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. 3,478 certificates cover Loughton, and their median floor area is 77 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. 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.

4,866 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13,328 freehold — 26.7% 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 £172,000 and the median freehold sale £300,000 — a gap of +74.4%. 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 — -5.2%. 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 707 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 Epping Forest, 41.9% of 57,060 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% 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 Epping Forest at £1,843 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,229 for a one-bedroom home and £1,939 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.85% 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 IG10, 223 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 84 violent, 6 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.

Against the 134,980 residents the 2021 census counted in Epping Forest, that is 1.65 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 134,980 residents in Epping Forest across 54,559 households. 70.3% of those households own their home and 29.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a IG10 postcode: 8 primary, 3 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. Loughton sits above that national figure — +58.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,333 per square metre, across 4,290 of the 18,194 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 £3,000 to £5,000,000. 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.

Loughton sits in Epping Forest, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Epping Forest at 12.4 times median local earnings of £41,452 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 Loughton

• High Road603 sales
• Smarts Lane327 sales
• Forest Road302 sales
• Valley Hill293 sales
• Willingale Road289 sales
• Englands Lane280 sales
• Maple Gate277 sales
• Hereward Green267 sales
• Swans Hope243 sales
• Algers Road229 sales
• Colebrook Lane229 sales
• Goldings Road222 sales
• River Way213 sales
• Southern Drive210 sales
• Hillyfields191 sales
• Grosvenor Drive189 sales
• Church Hill188 sales
• Avondale Drive187 sales
• Lower Park Road186 sales
• The Broadway183 sales
• Colson Road181 sales
• Queens Road160 sales
• Roding Road158 sales
• School House Gardens156 sales
• Meadow Road149 sales
• The Croft139 sales
• Oakwood Hill137 sales
• Chigwell Lane136 sales
• Pyrles Lane136 sales
• York Hill135 sales
• Roding Gardens129 sales
• Fallow Fields123 sales
• Lushes Road123 sales
• Fairmeads122 sales
• Luctons Close121 sales
• The Lindens119 sales
• Alderton Hill118 sales
• Chequers Road117 sales
• Baldwins Hill116 sales
• Newmans Lane116 sales
• Chester Road115 sales
• Kingsley Road113 sales
• Academy Way112 sales
• Habgood Road112 sales
• Tycehurst Hill111 sales
• Grange Court109 sales
• Whitehills Road107 sales
• Lower Road103 sales
• The Drive103 sales
• High Beech Road101 sales
• Hanson Drive99 sales
• Burney Drive97 sales
• Highwood Lane95 sales
• Spring Grove94 sales
• The Square90 sales
• Droveway87 sales
• Sedley Rise87 sales
• Bryony Close85 sales
• Bushfields83 sales
• Stonards Hill83 sales

Postcode districts covering Loughton

• IG10£250,000 median

What is the average house price in Loughton?

The median price paid in Loughton across every sale on the register is £250,000. 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 Loughton?

18,194 sales are on record for Loughton, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Loughton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +21.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Loughton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £510,000, set in 2025. 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 Loughton?

£3,333 per square metre, from the 4,290 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 22 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, “Loughton 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.