Queen Street, Colchester house prices are built from 265 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £171,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +92.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.6%.
Median price paid
£171,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+92.5%
Change in real terms
+42.6%
Median per m²
£1,310
HM Land Registry265 sales3 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Queen Street, Colchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Queen Street, Colchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | £67,000 | £148,772 |
| 2000s | 9 | £147,000 | £267,791 |
| 2010s | 7 | £230,000 | £324,300 |
| 2020s | 4 | £301,000 | £307,543 |
The highest yearly median on record for Queen Street, Colchester is £441,750 in 2023; the lowest is £48,250 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £67,000 to £441,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £148,772, so the real change over the whole record is +220.8% — about +4.25% 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: +92.5% in cash against +42.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Gardens Cottages | 29 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 38 | 16 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £490,435 |
| 41 | 1 Jul 2025 | Detached | £865,000 | £883,804 |
| 44 | 27 Aug 2024 | Detached | £595,000 | £626,082 |
| 75 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £480,000 | £505,075 |
| 9 | 30 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 69 | 9 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 12 | 14 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £502,500 | £542,931 |
| Magnolia House, 7 | 5 Apr 2023 | Detached | £1,300,000 | £1,404,598 |
| 47 | 24 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £381,000 | £411,655 |
| 37 | 12 Jan 2023 | Detached | £875,000 | £945,402 |
| 9 | 4 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 13 | 23 Jun 2022 | Detached | £1,125,000 | £1,303,410 |
| Flat 5 Bryan Dale House | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £277,500 | £321,508 |
| 32 | 1 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 65 | 25 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 14 | 25 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| 19 | 27 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £287,500 | £363,239 |
| 11 | 23 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £287,000 | £362,608 |
| 21 | 23 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 4 Gardens Cottages | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £301,000 | £380,296 |
| 51 | 18 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £665,000 | £840,188 |
| 16 | 9 Apr 2021 | Detached | £429,995 | £543,273 |
| 39 | 30 Mar 2021 | Detached | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| 59 | 7 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
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 Queen Street, Colchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 GARDENS COTTAGES Queen Street | £97,000 (1998) | £330,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 38 Queen Street | £87,500 (2002) | £480,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +4.7% |
| 41 Queen Street | £585,000 (2018) | £865,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +1.8% |
| 75 Queen Street | £94,000 (1996) | £480,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 44 Queen Street | £138,000 (1998) | £595,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 9 Queen Street | £30,000 (1995) | £235,000 (2023) | +7.6% | +4.9% |
| 12 Queen Street | £105,000 (1998) | £502,500 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 47 Queen Street | £102,000 (2000) | £381,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 37 Queen Street | £525,000 (2012) | £875,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +1.7% |
| 13 Queen Street | £75,000 (2000) | £1,125,000 (2022) | +13.1% | +10.3% |
| FLAT 5 BRYAN DALE HOUSE Queen Street | £154,000 (2001) | £277,500 (2022) | +2.8% | +0.3% |
| 65 Queen Street | £51,000 (1999) | £260,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Queen Street, 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 | 100 | 37.7% | £140,000 | £40,000 – £700,000 |
| Semi-detached | 81 | 30.6% | £178,000 | £30,000 – £550,000 |
| Detached | 56 | 21.1% | £249,000 | £60,000 – £1,300,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 28 | 10.6% | £125,000 | £38,500 – £277,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Queen Street, Colchester
27 of the sales on record are leasehold and 238 freehold — 10.2% 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 £125,000 and the median freehold sale £180,000 — a gap of +44.0%. 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 | 27 | 10.2% | £125,000 |
| Freehold | 238 | 89.8% | £180,000 |
| New build | 12 | 4.5% | £98,500 |
| Existing home | 253 | 95.5% | £178,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -44.7%. 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 9 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 Queen Street, 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 £171,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.81% 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 Queen Street, 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 Queen Street, Colchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Queen Street, Colchester sits above that national figure — +8.6%.
Within Colchester the street ranks 1899 of 2866 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £178,000 (-3.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,310 per square metre, across 3 of the 265 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 £30,000 to £1,300,000. 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.
Queen Street, 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
- Queens Road£225,000 median
- Kings Acre£140,000 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
- 9 Queen Street9 sales
- 59 Queen Street9 sales
- 26 Queen Street9 sales
- 18 Queen Street7 sales
- 57 Queen Street7 sales
- 47 Queen Street6 sales
- 14 Queen Street6 sales
- 19 Queen Street6 sales
- 22 Queen Street6 sales
- 67 Queen Street6 sales
- 12 Queen Street5 sales
- FLAT 5, BRYAN DALE HOUSE Queen Street5 sales
- 11 Queen Street5 sales
- 21 Queen Street5 sales
- 16 Queen Street5 sales
- 35 Queen Street5 sales
- 55 Queen Street5 sales
- 34 Queen Street5 sales
- 24A Queen Street5 sales
- 5 Queen Street5 sales
- 3, GARDENS COTTAGES Queen Street4 sales
- 38 Queen Street4 sales
- 65 Queen Street4 sales
- 4, GARDENS COTTAGES Queen Street4 sales
Back to Colchester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Queen Street, Colchester?
The median price paid in Queen Street, Colchester across every sale on the register is £171,000. 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 Queen Street, Colchester?
265 sales are on record for Queen Street, Colchester, the most recent completing on 29 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Queen Street, Colchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +92.5% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Queen Street, Colchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £441,750, set in 2023. 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 Queen Street, Colchester?
£1,310 per square metre, from the 3 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 29 Oct 2025. 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, “Queen Street, 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.