Clacton Road, Colchester house prices

Clacton Road, Colchester house prices are built from 199 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £260,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +38.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.4%.

HM Land Registry199 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Clacton Road, Colchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 Clacton Road, Colchester is £465,000 in 2021; the lowest is £71,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £100,750 to £380,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £223,713, so the real change over the whole record is +78.7% — about +2.02% 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: +38.2% in cash against +1.4% 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 Clacton Road, Colchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 199 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -33.3%. 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 22 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 Babergh, 43.0% of 43,823 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.4% 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 Babergh at £970 a month as of Jun 2026 — £720 for a one-bedroom home and £1,116 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £260,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.48% 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 CO7, 9 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 0 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 18.6 times quieter.

Against the 92,341 residents the 2021 census counted in Babergh, that is 0.10 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 92,341 residents in Babergh across 40,200 households. 71.8% of those households own their home and 28.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a CO7 postcode: 12 primary, 2 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. Clacton Road, Colchester sits above that national figure — +65.1%.

Within Colchester the street ranks 877 of 2866 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £178,000 (+46.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,614 per square metre, across 11 of the 199 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 £19,000 to £925,000. 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.

Clacton Road, Colchester sits in Babergh, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Babergh at 10.6 times median local earnings of £30,929 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 nearby

• Heath Road£200,000 median
• Sydney Street£125,000 median
• New Street£125,000 median
• Campernell Close£78,000 median
• Mill Lane£222,000 median
• The Street£260,000 median
• Red Barn Road£145,500 median
• Mill Street£148,250 median
• Wivenhoe Road£197,998 median
• Waterside Marina£243,000 median
• Chaney Road£180,000 median
• Colne Road£172,000 median
• Meadow Close£145,000 median
• Tower Street£146,000 median
• Richard Avenue£150,000 median
• Elmstead Road£145,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• MELITA Clacton Road6 sales
• 1, WHITE BARN COTTAGES Clacton Road5 sales
• 1 Clacton Road4 sales
• 7 Clacton Road4 sales
• BIRCHWOOD Clacton Road4 sales
• THE DORMERS Clacton Road4 sales
• ALVERE Clacton Road4 sales
• CRANFORD HOUSE Clacton Road4 sales
• AVONLEIGH Clacton Road3 sales
• FORRES Clacton Road3 sales
• SNOWDROP COTTAGE Clacton Road3 sales
• CLIFTON HOUSE Clacton Road3 sales
• PARK HOUSE Clacton Road3 sales
• VICTORIA HOUSE Clacton Road3 sales
• WAYSIDE COTTAGE Clacton Road3 sales
• CEDWANA Clacton Road3 sales
• KINGFISHERS Clacton Road3 sales
• BRAMFIELD Clacton Road3 sales
• THE ROSARY Clacton Road3 sales
• THE BOWLING GREEN Clacton Road3 sales
• ROSEBANK Clacton Road3 sales
• BRAMBLE COTTAGE Clacton Road3 sales
• POST COTTAGE Clacton Road3 sales
• HAVENBROOK Clacton Road3 sales

Back to Colchester house prices.

What is the average house price in Clacton Road, Colchester?

The median price paid in Clacton Road, Colchester across every sale on the register is £260,000. 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 Clacton Road, Colchester?

199 sales are on record for Clacton Road, Colchester, the most recent completing on 5 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Clacton Road, Colchester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +38.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Clacton Road, Colchester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £465,000, set in 2021. 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 Clacton Road, Colchester?

£2,614 per square metre, from the 11 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 5 Mar 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, “Clacton Road, 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.