St Marys Fields, Colchester house prices

St Marys Fields, Colchester house prices are built from 336 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 11 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £175,475. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -4.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -30.9%.

HM Land Registry336 sales100 with floor areaLatest sale 11 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median St Marys Fields, Colchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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.

The highest yearly median on record for St Marys Fields, Colchester is £330,000 in 2003; the lowest is £105,750 in 2024. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £330,000 to £162,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £623,727, so the real change over the whole record is -73.5% — about -5.85% 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 -30.9% 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 St Marys Fields, 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. St Marys Fields, Colchester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

243 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 freehold — 72.3% 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 £154,450 and the median freehold sale £322,500 — a gap of +108.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +54.4%. 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 12 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 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.

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 £175,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.23% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St Marys Fields, Colchester sits above that national figure — +11.4%.

Within Colchester the street ranks 1822 of 2866 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £178,000 (-1.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,657 per square metre, across 100 of the 336 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 £70,000 to £547,000. 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 Marys Fields, 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.

Streets nearby

• London Road£179,500 median
• Dale Close£91,000 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
• Sandmartin Crescent£165,950 median
• Woden Avenue£275,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 43 St Marys Fields5 sales
• FLAT 17, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields5 sales
• FLAT 62, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 75, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 9, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• 111 St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 47, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• 16 St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 38, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 3, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 40, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 6, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 80, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields4 sales
• 22 St Marys Fields4 sales
• FLAT 72, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• 99 St Marys Fields3 sales
• FLAT 16, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• FLAT 67, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• FLAT 1, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• 12 St Marys Fields3 sales
• FLAT 28, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• FLAT 32, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• FLAT 42, SALTER COURT St Marys Fields3 sales
• 18 St Marys Fields3 sales

Back to Colchester house prices.

What is the average house price in St Marys Fields, Colchester?

The median price paid in St Marys Fields, Colchester across every sale on the register is £175,475. 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 Marys Fields, Colchester?

336 sales are on record for St Marys Fields, Colchester, the most recent completing on 11 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have St Marys Fields, Colchester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -4.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -30.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were St Marys Fields, Colchester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £330,000, set in 2003. 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 Marys Fields, Colchester?

£2,657 per square metre, from the 100 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 11 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, “St Marys Fields, 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.