Essex Road, Barking house prices are built from 153 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 20 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,200. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved +57.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +20.9%.
Median price paid
£155,200
Change in cash, 2007–2018
+57.8%
Change in real terms
+20.9%
Median per m²
£2,187
HM Land Registry153 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Essex Road, Barking prices moved
The chart tracks the median Essex Road, Barking house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2018. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £54,000 | £119,906 |
| 2000s | 8 | £163,000 | £296,938 |
| 2010s | 4 | £208,000 | £293,280 |
The highest yearly median on record for Essex Road, Barking is £325,000 in 2018; the lowest is £49,250 in 1998. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £325,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,496, so the real change over the whole record is +278.3% — about +6.54% 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: +57.8% in cash against +20.9% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 20 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 109 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £445,000 | £454,674 |
| 63 | 28 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 73 | 23 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| Flat 1 Bridge House, 86 | 9 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £126,344 |
| First Floor Flat, 36 | 19 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £202,000 | £255,215 |
| 60 | 26 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £415,000 | £537,328 |
| 93 | 30 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £337,000 | £436,336 |
| 58 | 12 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £451,252 |
| 63 | 7 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £378,000 | £494,416 |
| 22 | 19 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £325,000 | £433,129 |
| 43 | 14 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £367,000 | £489,102 |
| Flat 3 Bridge House, 86 | 28 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £197,500 | £263,209 |
| 64 | 2 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £403,000 | £537,079 |
| 65 | 6 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £325,000 | £433,129 |
| 107 | 4 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £342,000 | £465,463 |
| First Floor Flat, 36 | 1 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £204,151 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 36 | 1 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £190,541 |
| 7 | 23 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £315,000 | £428,716 |
| 61 | 24 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £311,000 | £434,168 |
| Flat 1 Bridge House, 86 | 26 Aug 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £174,505 |
| 32 | 18 May 2016 | Terraced | £155,200 | £216,665 |
| 34 | 21 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £350,000 | £488,614 |
| 73 | 1 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £325,000 | £453,713 |
| 37 | 11 Jan 2016 | Terraced | £320,000 | £446,733 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Essex Road, Barking values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 Essex Road | £194,000 (2010) | £385,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 109 Essex Road | £188,000 (2012) | £445,000 (2025) | +6.9% | +3.8% |
| 63 Essex Road | £208,000 (2013) | £375,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 73 Essex Road | £325,000 (2016) | £500,000 (2022) | +7.4% | +4.2% |
| FLAT 1 BRIDGE HOUSE, 86 Essex Road | £20,000 (1998) | £100,000 (2021) | +7.2% | +5.0% |
| FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 36 Essex Road | £150,000 (2017) | £202,000 (2021) | +7.7% | +5.7% |
| 60 Essex Road | £165,000 (2010) | £415,000 (2020) | +9.7% | +7.4% |
| 58 Essex Road | £167,000 (2011) | £345,000 (2019) | +9.5% | +7.3% |
| FLAT 3 BRIDGE HOUSE, 86 Essex Road | £149,000 (2014) | £197,500 (2018) | +7.3% | +5.3% |
| 64 Essex Road | £149,000 (2003) | £403,000 (2018) | +6.9% | +4.4% |
| 65 Essex Road | £164,995 (2004) | £325,000 (2018) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 107 Essex Road | £79,000 (2000) | £342,000 (2017) | +9.0% | +6.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Essex Road, Barking is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 135 | 88.2% | £165,000 | £27,000 – £500,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 15 | 9.8% | £100,000 | £18,000 – £202,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | 2.0% | £167,000 | £70,000 – £345,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Essex Road, Barking
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 135 freehold — 11.8% 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 £121,000 and the median freehold sale £166,000 — a gap of +37.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 18 | 11.8% | £121,000 |
| Freehold | 135 | 88.2% | £166,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.7% | £27,000 |
| Existing home | 152 | 99.3% | £157,100 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -82.8%. 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 12 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.
Section 07
Living in Essex Road, Barking
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barking and Dagenham, 46.5% of 98,155 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 513 | 0.5% |
| B | 17,509 | 17.8% |
| C | 27,594 | 28.1% |
| D | 40,171 | 40.9% |
| E | 10,356 | 10.6% |
| F | 1,539 | 1.6% |
| G | 473 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barking and Dagenham at £1,693 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,373 for a one-bedroom home and £1,891 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £155,200 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.09% 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 IG11, 774 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 259 violent, 26 burglary, 81 vehicle-related and 124 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.6 times busier.
Against the 218,869 residents the 2021 census counted in Barking and Dagenham, that is 3.54 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Essex Road, Barking
The 2021 census counted 218,869 residents in Barking and Dagenham across 73,902 households. 44.1% of those households own their home and 55.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a IG11 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College | Secondary | Community school | 2,418 |
| Eastbury Community School | All-through | Community school | 2,039 |
| Riverside School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,550 |
| Greatfields School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,248 |
| Gascoigne Primary School | Primary | Community school | 1,115 |
| Ripple Primary School | Primary | Community school | 856 |
| Northbury Primary School | Primary | Community school | 832 |
| Eastbury Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 777 |
| George Carey Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 619 |
| Manor Junior School | Primary | Community school | 590 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Upney Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
| Upney Station | Tram | 0.7 km |
| Barking Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Barking Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
Section 09
How Essex Road, Barking compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Essex Road, Barking sits below that national figure — -1.5%.
Within Barking the street ranks 166 of 250 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £170,000 (-8.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,187 per square metre, across 46 of the 153 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 £18,000 to £500,000. 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.
Essex Road, Barking sits in Barking and Dagenham, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barking and Dagenham at 9.5 times median local earnings of £39,599 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Longbridge Road£132,000 median
- Arboretum Place£172,500 median
- Abbey Road£254,000 median
- Gurney Close£100,000 median
- Westrow Drive£264,500 median
- Greenslade Road£66,995 median
- Ripple Road£145,000 median
- Stern Close£115,998 median
- Salisbury Avenue£218,500 median
- Waterside Close£105,000 median
- Cambridge Road£287,000 median
- Wilmington Gardens£237,000 median
- Blessing Way£74,995 median
- Spring Place£172,500 median
- Wanderer Drive£85,000 median
- Cavendish Gardens£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 38 Essex Road7 sales
- FLAT 2, BRIDGE HOUSE, 86 Essex Road5 sales
- 27 Essex Road5 sales
- FLAT 1, BRIDGE HOUSE, 86 Essex Road4 sales
- 107 Essex Road4 sales
- 3 Essex Road4 sales
- 20 Essex Road4 sales
- 1A Essex Road4 sales
- 63 Essex Road3 sales
- 60 Essex Road3 sales
- 64 Essex Road3 sales
- 61 Essex Road3 sales
- 99 Essex Road3 sales
- 1B Essex Road3 sales
- 16 Essex Road3 sales
- 95 Essex Road3 sales
- 62 Essex Road3 sales
- 30 Essex Road3 sales
- 70 Essex Road3 sales
- 66 Essex Road3 sales
- 45 Essex Road2 sales
- 109 Essex Road2 sales
- 73 Essex Road2 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 36 Essex Road2 sales
Back to Barking house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Essex Road, Barking?
The median price paid in Essex Road, Barking across every sale on the register is £155,200. 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 Essex Road, Barking?
153 sales are on record for Essex Road, Barking, the most recent completing on 20 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Essex Road, Barking house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +57.8% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +20.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Essex Road, Barking house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £325,000, set in 2018. 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 Essex Road, Barking?
£2,187 per square metre, from the 46 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 20 Feb 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, “Essex Road, Barking 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.