St Johns Road, Colchester house prices are built from 301 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £193,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +44.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +5.0%.
Median price paid
£193,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+44.9%
Change in real terms
+5.0%
Median per m²
£2,047
HM Land Registry301 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Apr 2026
Section 01
How St Johns Road, Colchester prices moved
The chart tracks the median St Johns Road, 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 | 5 | £61,500 | £136,559 |
| 2000s | 10 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 10 | £223,000 | £314,430 |
| 2020s | 5 | £355,000 | £362,717 |
The highest yearly median on record for St Johns Road, Colchester is £385,000 in 2020; the lowest is £57,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £57,000 to £355,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £126,567, so the real change over the whole record is +186.6% — about +3.57% 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: +44.9% in cash against +5.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 20 Apr 2026 | Detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 16 | 10 Apr 2026 | Detached | £394,000 | £394,000 |
| 321 | 1 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 221 | 28 Oct 2025 | Detached | £580,000 | £592,609 |
| 93 | 27 Oct 2025 | Detached | £355,000 | £362,717 |
| Flat 8 Oakleigh Court | 26 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| 122 | 28 Aug 2025 | Detached | £387,500 | £395,924 |
| 2 | 9 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 2 the Oyster Catchers | 3 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £710,000 | £725,435 |
| 142 | 22 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £327,500 | £334,620 |
| 20 | 6 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 100 | 16 Jan 2025 | Detached | £333,666 | £340,920 |
| 6 the Oyster Catchers | 18 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £480,000 | £505,075 |
| 3 the Oyster Catchers | 29 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £625,000 | £657,649 |
| 112 | 11 Oct 2024 | Detached | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 6 | 16 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 82 | 10 Sep 2024 | Detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 9 | 15 Sep 2023 | Detached | £445,000 | £480,805 |
| 6 the Oyster Catchers | 17 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £470,000 |
| 160 | 10 Mar 2023 | Detached | £420,000 | £453,793 |
| 2 | 17 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £630,000 | £680,690 |
| 108 | 17 Nov 2022 | Detached | £337,000 | £390,444 |
| 80 | 2 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £381,000 | £441,422 |
| 124 | 1 Sep 2022 | Detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 102 | 25 Aug 2022 | Detached | £510,000 | £590,879 |
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 St Johns Road, Colchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 St Johns Road | £78,000 (1996) | £394,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.9% |
| 321 St Johns Road | £258,500 (2017) | £320,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -1.0% |
| 93 St Johns Road | £164,000 (2003) | £355,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| FLAT 8 OAKLEIGH COURT St Johns Road | £170,000 (2006) | £305,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| 122 St Johns Road | £335,000 (2021) | £387,500 (2025) | +3.7% | -1.7% |
| 2 St Johns Road | £160,000 (2008) | £300,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 2 the OYSTER CATCHERS St Johns Road | £485,000 (2020) | £710,000 (2025) | +7.9% | +2.9% |
| 20 St Johns Road | £210,000 (2004) | £415,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 100 St Johns Road | £65,000 (1996) | £333,666 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 6 the OYSTER CATCHERS St Johns Road | £240,000 (2009) | £480,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 3 the OYSTER CATCHERS St Johns Road | £490,000 (2020) | £625,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +0.9% |
| 112 St Johns Road | £83,500 (1999) | £305,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St Johns Road, 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 | 130 | 43.2% | £212,500 | £39,995 – £610,000 |
| Semi-detached | 115 | 38.2% | £170,000 | £38,995 – £555,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 49 | 16.3% | £192,000 | £125,000 – £710,000 |
| Terraced | 7 | 2.3% | £294,500 | £79,995 – £630,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St Johns Road, Colchester
47 of the sales on record are leasehold and 254 freehold — 15.6% 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 £192,000 and the median freehold sale £194,000 — a gap of +1.0%. 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 | 47 | 15.6% | £192,000 |
| Freehold | 254 | 84.4% | £194,000 |
| New build | 29 | 9.6% | £175,000 |
| Existing home | 272 | 90.4% | £195,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.3%. 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 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 St Johns Road, 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 £193,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.48% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around St Johns Road, 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.
19 state and independent schools have a CO4 postcode: 16 primary, 3 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 Gilberd School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,588 |
| Colchester Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 879 |
| The Trinity School | Secondary | Free schools | 780 |
| Highwoods Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 453 |
| Unity Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 432 |
| Braiswick Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 419 |
| Friars Grove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 408 |
| Queen Boudica Primary School | Primary | Community school | 408 |
| Camulos Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 406 |
| Brinkley Grove Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 403 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Colchester Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Hythe (Essex) Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Colchester Town Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Wivenhoe Rail Station | Rail | 6.4 km |
Section 09
How St Johns Road, Colchester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St Johns Road, Colchester sits above that national figure — +22.5%.
Within Colchester the street ranks 1563 of 2866 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £178,000 (+8.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,047 per square metre, across 53 of the 301 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 £38,995 to £710,000. 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.
St Johns Road, 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
- Chinook£85,000 median
- Harwich Road£130,250 median
- Ipswich Road£175,000 median
- Bergholt Road£157,000 median
- Straight Road£235,000 median
- Mile End Road£172,250 median
- Gavin Way£210,000 median
- Nayland Road£176,000 median
- Derwent Road£112,995 median
- Hanbury Gardens£85,000 median
- Axial Drive£182,500 median
- Titus Way£136,000 median
- Turner Road£151,000 median
- Enville Way£81,000 median
- Bromley Road£205,000 median
- Propelair Way£168,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 8 St Johns Road10 sales
- 19 St Johns Road7 sales
- 4 St Johns Road7 sales
- 2 St Johns Road6 sales
- 6 St Johns Road6 sales
- 45 St Johns Road5 sales
- 1 St Johns Road5 sales
- 16 St Johns Road4 sales
- FLAT 8, OAKLEIGH COURT St Johns Road4 sales
- 20 St Johns Road4 sales
- 9 St Johns Road4 sales
- 58 St Johns Road4 sales
- 327 St Johns Road4 sales
- 231 St Johns Road4 sales
- 24 St Johns Road4 sales
- 93 St Johns Road3 sales
- 100 St Johns Road3 sales
- 6, the OYSTER CATCHERS St Johns Road3 sales
- 99A St Johns Road3 sales
- 41 St Johns Road3 sales
- 173 St Johns Road3 sales
- 7 St Johns Road3 sales
- 151 St Johns Road3 sales
- 309 St Johns Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St Johns Road, Colchester?
The median price paid in St Johns Road, Colchester across every sale on the register is £193,000. 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 St Johns Road, Colchester?
301 sales are on record for St Johns Road, Colchester, the most recent completing on 20 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St Johns Road, Colchester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +44.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +5.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St Johns Road, Colchester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £385,000, 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 St Johns Road, Colchester?
£2,047 per square metre, from the 53 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 20 Apr 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, “St Johns 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.