Kings Acre, Colchester house prices are built from 228 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £140,000. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +4.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.7%.
Median price paid
£140,000
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+4.7%
Change in real terms
-13.7%
HM Land Registry228 salesLatest sale 24 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Kings Acre, Colchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Kings Acre, Colchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 | 5 | £66,950 | £148,661 |
| 2000s | 9 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 6 | £193,000 | £272,130 |
| 2020s | 1 | £220,000 | £224,783 |
The highest yearly median on record for Kings Acre, Colchester is £285,000 in 2016; the lowest is £54,500 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £66,950 to £220,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £148,661, so the real change over the whole record is +87.0% — about +2.44% 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: +4.7% in cash against -13.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 24 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 68 | 11 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 48 | 14 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £317,000 | £323,891 |
| 10 | 16 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £192,500 | £202,556 |
| 9 | 26 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 22 | 4 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 36 | 16 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £292,000 | £307,254 |
| 8 | 22 May 2023 | Terraced | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 21 | 7 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £277,500 | £299,828 |
| 90 | 24 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| 66 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £365,000 | £422,884 |
| 25 | 27 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £572,500 | £663,291 |
| 5 | 11 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 37 | 21 Dec 2021 | Detached | £465,000 | £587,500 |
| 58 | 13 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| 34 | 26 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 21 | 8 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 76 | 18 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £185,726 |
| 4 | 27 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £301,000 | £393,701 |
| 64 | 9 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £464,332 |
| 19 | 16 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £366,493 |
| 18 | 28 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £345,000 | £459,783 |
| 10 | 16 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 21 | 6 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £208,000 | £277,202 |
| 80 | 9 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £187,500 | £249,882 |
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 Kings Acre, Colchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 Kings Acre | £77,950 (1998) | £315,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 68 Kings Acre | £77,950 (1998) | £325,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 48 Kings Acre | £67,500 (1997) | £317,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 10 Kings Acre | £45,950 (1995) | £192,500 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 9 Kings Acre | £154,995 (2004) | £305,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 22 Kings Acre | £53,500 (1997) | £175,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 36 Kings Acre | £74,000 (1997) | £292,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 8 Kings Acre | £66,950 (1995) | £290,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 21 Kings Acre | £64,950 (1998) | £277,500 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 90 Kings Acre | £50,950 (1999) | £205,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 66 Kings Acre | £75,000 (1998) | £365,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 25 Kings Acre | £141,000 (1998) | £572,500 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kings Acre, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 81 | 35.5% | £105,000 | £43,750 – £277,500 |
| Terraced | 74 | 32.5% | £182,000 | £65,000 – £572,500 |
| Semi-detached | 50 | 21.9% | £170,000 | £52,000 – £355,000 |
| Detached | 23 | 10.1% | £141,950 | £74,950 – £465,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Kings Acre, Colchester
81 of the sales on record are leasehold and 147 freehold — 35.5% 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 £100,000 and the median freehold sale £170,000 — a gap of +70.0%. 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 | 81 | 35.5% | £100,000 |
| Freehold | 147 | 64.5% | £170,000 |
| New build | 61 | 26.8% | £71,450 |
| Existing home | 167 | 73.2% | £174,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -58.9%. 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 6 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 Kings Acre, Colchester
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 389 | 0.9% |
| B | 6,268 | 14.3% |
| C | 12,181 | 27.8% |
| D | 14,574 | 33.3% |
| E | 7,180 | 16.4% |
| F | 2,592 | 5.9% |
| G | 639 | 1.5% |
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 £140,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.31% 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 CO6, 3 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 2 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 55.7 times quieter.
Against the 92,341 residents the 2021 census counted in Babergh, that is 0.03 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 Kings Acre, Colchester
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.
13 state and independent schools have a CO6 postcode: 12 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honywood School | Secondary | Academy converter | 849 |
| Heathlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, West Bergholt | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 411 |
| Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Foundation school | 402 |
| St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Coggeshall | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 339 |
| The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 203 |
| Copford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 202 |
| Nayland Primary School | Primary | Community school | 197 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary Academy, Marks Tey | Primary | Academy converter | 131 |
| Colne Engaine Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 88 |
| Great Tey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 86 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chappel & Wakes Colne Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Marks Tey Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Bures Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Colchester Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Kings Acre, Colchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kings Acre, Colchester sits below that national figure — -11.1%.
Within Colchester the street ranks 2311 of 2866 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £178,000 (-21.3%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £43,750 to £572,500. 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.
Kings Acre, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Colchester Road£215,000 median
- Halstead Road£219,000 median
- Chapel Road£197,750 median
- Lexden Road£265,000 median
- Coggeshall Road£240,000 median
- East Street£175,000 median
- Queen Street£171,000 median
- Queens Road£225,000 median
- Keelers Way£162,000 median
- School Road£297,000 median
- The Avenue£240,000 median
- Wrights Way£127,950 median
- Tilkey Road£240,000 median
- Chapel Lane£276,500 median
- Stoneham Street£186,500 median
- Maltings Park£111,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 58 Kings Acre7 sales
- 34 Kings Acre7 sales
- 48 Kings Acre6 sales
- 10 Kings Acre6 sales
- 5 Kings Acre6 sales
- 37 Kings Acre6 sales
- 31 Kings Acre6 sales
- 6 Kings Acre6 sales
- 70 Kings Acre5 sales
- 22 Kings Acre5 sales
- 21 Kings Acre5 sales
- 90 Kings Acre5 sales
- 76 Kings Acre5 sales
- 18 Kings Acre5 sales
- 80 Kings Acre5 sales
- 54 Kings Acre5 sales
- 72 Kings Acre5 sales
- 50 Kings Acre5 sales
- 9 Kings Acre4 sales
- 36 Kings Acre4 sales
- 66 Kings Acre4 sales
- 64 Kings Acre4 sales
- 82 Kings Acre4 sales
- 23 Kings Acre4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Kings Acre, Colchester?
The median price paid in Kings Acre, Colchester across every sale on the register is £140,000. 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 Kings Acre, Colchester?
228 sales are on record for Kings Acre, Colchester, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Kings Acre, Colchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +4.7% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Kings Acre, Colchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, set in 2016. 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 Kings Acre, Colchester?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 24 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, “Kings Acre, 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.