Adelaide Drive, Colchester house prices are built from 206 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +48.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.7%.
Median price paid
£130,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+48.6%
Change in real terms
+7.7%
Median per m²
£1,928
HM Land Registry206 sales49 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Adelaide Drive, Colchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Adelaide Drive, Colchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £46,500 | £103,252 |
| 2000s | 9 | £120,000 | £218,605 |
| 2010s | 7 | £176,000 | £248,160 |
| 2020s | 3 | £261,500 | £267,185 |
The highest yearly median on record for Adelaide Drive, Colchester is £263,000 in 2024; the lowest is £44,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £44,500 to £261,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £98,811, so the real change over the whole record is +170.4% — about +3.37% 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: +48.6% in cash against +7.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 16 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £247,500 | £247,500 |
| 39 | 23 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 3 | 26 Sep 2025 | Detached | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 64 | 27 May 2025 | Terraced | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 102 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 98 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £243,000 | £248,283 |
| 1 | 17 Jan 2025 | Detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 86 | 17 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 46a | 3 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 104 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 41 | 28 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 68 | 16 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £213,000 | £224,127 |
| 34 | 31 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 44 | 23 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £263,000 | £276,739 |
| 66b | 30 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £219,995 | £237,696 |
| 9 | 5 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 10 | 3 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £292,000 | £315,494 |
| 26 | 5 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 64 | 21 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 44 | 29 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £233,000 | £294,382 |
| 41 | 29 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| 51 | 28 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 45 | 10 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 66a | 23 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £183,500 | £231,841 |
| 102 | 24 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £230,000 | £290,591 |
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 Adelaide Drive, Colchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 Adelaide Drive | £159,995 (2007) | £247,500 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| 39 Adelaide Drive | £225,000 (2019) | £280,000 (2025) | +3.7% | -0.5% |
| 64 Adelaide Drive | £37,000 (1995) | £205,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 102 Adelaide Drive | £43,000 (1997) | £280,000 (2025) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| 46A Adelaide Drive | £49,500 (1999) | £235,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 41 Adelaide Drive | £145,000 (2004) | £350,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 68 Adelaide Drive | £42,995 (1999) | £213,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 34 Adelaide Drive | £92,000 (2000) | £320,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 44 Adelaide Drive | £45,000 (1996) | £263,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 66B Adelaide Drive | £39,000 (1998) | £219,995 (2023) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 9 Adelaide Drive | £137,000 (2003) | £290,000 (2023) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
| 10 Adelaide Drive | £46,500 (1997) | £292,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Adelaide Drive, Colchester 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 | 96 | 46.6% | £134,000 | £37,000 – £280,000 |
| Semi-detached | 90 | 43.7% | £130,000 | £42,000 – £350,000 |
| Detached | 20 | 9.7% | £93,000 | £47,995 – £380,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Adelaide Drive, Colchester
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 206 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 206 | 100.0% | £130,000 |
| New build | 3 | 1.5% | £159,995 |
| Existing home | 203 | 98.5% | £129,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +23.5%. 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 10 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 Adelaide Drive, Colchester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Colchester, 52.4% of 97,371 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 586 | 0.6% |
| B | 15,120 | 15.5% |
| C | 35,281 | 36.2% |
| D | 31,726 | 32.6% |
| E | 11,211 | 11.5% |
| F | 2,797 | 2.9% |
| G | 650 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Colchester at £1,203 a month as of Jun 2026 — £824 for a one-bedroom home and £1,307 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £130,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.10% 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 CO2, 188 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 82 violent, 7 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 192,715 residents the 2021 census counted in Colchester, that is 0.98 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 Adelaide Drive, Colchester
The 2021 census counted 192,715 residents in Colchester across 79,711 households. 65.1% of those households own their home and 34.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a CO2 postcode: 13 primary, 2 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Thomas Lord Audley School | Secondary | Academy converter | 940 |
| Paxman Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 873 |
| St. George's School | Primary | Community school | 609 |
| Montgomery Primary School, Colchester | Primary | Community school | 608 |
| St John's Green Primary School | Primary | Community school | 591 |
| Monkwick Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 234 |
| St Michael's Primary School and Nursery, Colchester | Primary | Community school | 228 |
| Gosbecks Primary School | Primary | Community school | 227 |
| Old Heath Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Layer-de-la-Haye Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 203 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Colchester Town Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Hythe (Essex) Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Colchester Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Wivenhoe Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
Section 09
How Adelaide Drive, Colchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Adelaide Drive, Colchester sits below that national figure — -17.5%.
Within Colchester the street ranks 2434 of 2866 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £178,000 (-27.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,928 per square metre, across 49 of the 206 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 £37,000 to £380,000. 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.
Adelaide Drive, Colchester sits in Colchester, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Colchester at 8.4 times median local earnings of £38,758 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
- Mersea Road£175,000 median
- Quayside Drive£135,300 median
- Friday Wood Green£97,500 median
- West Street£196,000 median
- Canterbury Road£126,500 median
- Bourne Road£138,500 median
- Lisle Road£124,000 median
- Lethe Grove£95,500 median
- Berechurch Hall Road£165,000 median
- Circular Road South£129,995 median
- Hawkins Road£140,000 median
- Winchester Road£131,000 median
- Albany Gardens£159,612 median
- Gilberd Road£113,000 median
- Caelum Drive£135,000 median
- Maypole Green Road£127,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 66B Adelaide Drive8 sales
- 64 Adelaide Drive6 sales
- 102 Adelaide Drive6 sales
- 44 Adelaide Drive6 sales
- 46A Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 68 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 10 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 66A Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 30A Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 114 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 24 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 36 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 106 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 80 Adelaide Drive5 sales
- 41 Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 45 Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 68A Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 96 Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 60 Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 100 Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 92 Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 32A Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 62A Adelaide Drive4 sales
- 32 Adelaide Drive3 sales
Back to Colchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Adelaide Drive, Colchester?
The median price paid in Adelaide Drive, Colchester across every sale on the register is £130,000. 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 Adelaide Drive, Colchester?
206 sales are on record for Adelaide Drive, Colchester, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Adelaide Drive, Colchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Adelaide Drive, Colchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £263,000, set in 2024. 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 Adelaide Drive, Colchester?
£1,928 per square metre, from the 49 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 16 Jan 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, “Adelaide Drive, Colchester 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.