Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester house prices are built from 142 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 23 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,950. Across the 13 years from 2007 to 2020 the median moved +33.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.6%.
Median price paid
£165,950
Change in cash, 2007–2020
+33.5%
Change in real terms
-0.6%
HM Land Registry142 salesLatest sale 23 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2020. 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 | 1 | £130,995 | £290,871 |
| 2000s | 6 | £120,500 | £219,516 |
| 2010s | 1 | £229,000 | £322,890 |
| 2020s | 1 | £267,000 | £272,804 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester is £267,000 in 2020; the lowest is £99,995 in 2002. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £130,995 to £267,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £266,912, so the real change over the whole record is +29.5% — about +1.24% 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: +33.5% in cash against -0.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 23 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 9 | 13 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £336,000 | £336,000 |
| 43 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 57 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 53 | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £150,196 |
| 38 | 20 Feb 2025 | Detached | £465,000 | £475,109 |
| 77 | 27 Sep 2024 | Detached | £565,000 | £594,515 |
| 75 | 9 Aug 2024 | Detached | £623,000 | £655,545 |
| 2 | 1 Aug 2024 | Detached | £506,000 | £532,433 |
| 39 | 1 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £356,500 | £385,184 |
| 47 | 29 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £171,000 | £184,759 |
| 32 | 13 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 17 | 5 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £174,000 | £188,000 |
| 69 | 27 Sep 2021 | Detached | £500,000 | £631,720 |
| 25 | 28 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £193,306 |
| 61 | 6 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 5 | 27 Nov 2020 | Detached | £419,000 | £542,507 |
| 11 | 15 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £267,000 | £345,702 |
| 47 | 4 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £181,267 |
| 53 | 30 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £144,000 | £186,446 |
| 20 | 3 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £226,584 |
| 27 | 23 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £272,500 | £352,824 |
| 12 | 4 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £362,534 |
| 49 | 8 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £141,200 | £184,686 |
| 73 | 27 Jun 2019 | Detached | £436,000 | £570,278 |
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 Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Sandmartin Crescent | £124,000 (2001) | £325,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 9 Sandmartin Crescent | £122,000 (2000) | £336,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 57 Sandmartin Crescent | £127,000 (2001) | £325,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 53 Sandmartin Crescent | £81,950 (2002) | £147,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| 38 Sandmartin Crescent | £165,950 (2000) | £465,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 77 Sandmartin Crescent | £287,000 (2001) | £565,000 (2024) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| 75 Sandmartin Crescent | £172,950 (2000) | £623,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 2 Sandmartin Crescent | £116,000 (1999) | £506,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 39 Sandmartin Crescent | £135,000 (2001) | £356,500 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 47 Sandmartin Crescent | £81,950 (2002) | £171,000 (2023) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 32 Sandmartin Crescent | £118,450 (2000) | £350,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 17 Sandmartin Crescent | £65,500 (2001) | £174,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sandmartin Crescent, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 53 | 37.3% | £224,000 | £114,000 – £623,000 |
| Terraced | 44 | 31.0% | £193,000 | £115,000 – £356,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 40 | 28.2% | £105,000 | £59,950 – £175,000 |
| Semi-detached | 5 | 3.5% | £180,000 | £113,000 – £280,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester
42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 100 freehold — 29.6% 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 £106,375 and the median freehold sale £200,750 — a gap of +88.7%. 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 | 42 | 29.6% | £106,375 |
| Freehold | 100 | 70.4% | £200,750 |
| New build | 52 | 36.6% | £127,250 |
| Existing home | 90 | 63.4% | £213,998 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -40.5%. 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 2 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 Sandmartin Crescent, 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 £165,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.70% 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 CO3, 136 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 60 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 192,715 residents the 2021 census counted in Colchester, that is 0.71 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 Sandmartin Crescent, 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.
17 state and independent schools have a CO3 postcode: 10 primary, 6 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Morant School and College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,888 |
| The Stanway School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,396 |
| Colchester County High School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,198 |
| Colchester Royal Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,073 |
| St Helena School | Secondary | Academy converter | 986 |
| St Benedict's Catholic College | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 905 |
| Stanway Fiveways Primary School | Primary | Community school | 473 |
| Home Farm Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 422 |
| Hamilton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| Stanway Primary School | Primary | Community school | 390 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Colchester Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Colchester Town Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Hythe (Essex) Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Marks Tey Rail Station | Rail | 5.0 km |
Section 09
How Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester sits above that national figure — +5.4%.
Within Colchester the street ranks 1987 of 2866 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £178,000 (-6.8%).
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 £59,950 to £623,000. 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.
Sandmartin Crescent, 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
- London Road£179,500 median
- Dale Close£91,000 median
- St Marys Fields£175,475 median
- Shrub End Road£200,000 median
- Rotary Way£172,750 median
- Butt Road£176,500 median
- Collingwood Road£138,000 median
- Henry Laver Court£210,000 median
- Wickham Road£140,000 median
- Manor Road£162,750 median
- Robin Crescent£186,000 median
- Magazine Farm Way£222,500 median
- Victoria Road£162,000 median
- Constantine Road£210,000 median
- The Commons£195,000 median
- Woden Avenue£275,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 53 Sandmartin Crescent5 sales
- 17 Sandmartin Crescent5 sales
- 8 Sandmartin Crescent5 sales
- 4 Sandmartin Crescent5 sales
- 47 Sandmartin Crescent4 sales
- 69 Sandmartin Crescent4 sales
- 25 Sandmartin Crescent4 sales
- 12 Sandmartin Crescent4 sales
- 49 Sandmartin Crescent4 sales
- 73 Sandmartin Crescent4 sales
- 2 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 39 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 32 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 5 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 13 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 36 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 37 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 16 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 22 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 63 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 42 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 24 Sandmartin Crescent3 sales
- 29 Sandmartin Crescent2 sales
- 9 Sandmartin Crescent2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester?
The median price paid in Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester across every sale on the register is £165,950. 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 Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester?
142 sales are on record for Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester, the most recent completing on 23 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.5% between 2007 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sandmartin Crescent, Colchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £267,000, set in 2020. 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 Sandmartin Crescent, 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 23 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, “Sandmartin Crescent, 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.