Crest Avenue, Grays house prices are built from 230 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Jun 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £75,000. Across the 13 years from 2007 to 2020 the median moved +32.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.6%.
Median price paid
£75,000
Change in cash, 2007–2020
+32.2%
Change in real terms
-1.6%
Median per m²
£1,795
HM Land Registry230 sales103 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Jun 2025
Section 01
How Crest Avenue, Grays prices moved
The chart tracks the median Crest Avenue, Grays house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £38,250 | £84,933 |
| 2000s | 8 | £82,998 | £151,197 |
| 2010s | 2 | £97,000 | £136,770 |
| 2020s | 1 | £152,000 | £155,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for Crest Avenue, Grays is £200,000 in 2016; the lowest is £26,500 in 1995. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £26,500 to £152,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £58,843, so the real change over the whole record is +234.5% — about +4.95% 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: +32.2% in cash against -1.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| Flat 21 Chevron House | 16 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £202,500 | £206,902 |
| 8 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| Flat 24 Chevron House | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| Flat 14 Chevron House | 23 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| Flat 2 Trefoil House | 26 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £146,000 | £157,747 |
| 22 | 12 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| Flat 29 Chevron House | 16 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £148,000 | £171,471 |
| 14 | 14 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £331,000 | £383,492 |
| Flat 20 Trefoil House | 19 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| 24 | 28 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £296,000 | £342,942 |
| Flat 4 Chevron House | 20 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £117,000 | £147,823 |
| Flat 20 Chevron House | 31 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £148,000 | £186,989 |
| Flat 2 Trefoil House | 18 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £181,267 |
| Flat 1 Chevron House | 14 Aug 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £196,804 |
| Flat 28 Chevron House | 2 Jul 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £148,898 |
| Flat 7 Trefoil House | 23 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £217,521 |
| Flat 25 Trefoil House | 3 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 16 | 25 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £270,000 | £353,154 |
| Flat 15 Trefoil House | 7 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £178,000 | £232,820 |
| Flat 25 Trefoil House | 13 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £157,259 |
| Flat 6 Chevron House | 21 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £173,251 |
| Flat 16 Trefoil House | 19 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| Flat 31 Trefoil House | 7 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £217,761 |
| 33 | 23 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £260,000 | £353,861 |
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 Crest Avenue, Grays values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Crest Avenue | £38,000 (1995) | £285,000 (2025) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| FLAT 21 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £24,000 (1995) | £202,500 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 8 Crest Avenue | £38,500 (1996) | £310,000 (2024) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| FLAT 24 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £25,000 (1998) | £200,000 (2024) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| FLAT 14 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £59,500 (2002) | £165,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| FLAT 2 TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue | £57,000 (2002) | £146,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 22 Crest Avenue | £40,000 (1997) | £325,000 (2023) | +8.4% | +5.6% |
| FLAT 29 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £22,750 (1999) | £148,000 (2022) | +8.5% | +5.9% |
| 14 Crest Avenue | £42,000 (1995) | £331,000 (2022) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| FLAT 4 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £29,000 (1999) | £117,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.3% |
| FLAT 20 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £30,500 (1998) | £148,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| FLAT 1 CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue | £39,500 (1999) | £152,000 (2020) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Crest Avenue, Grays 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 | 146 | 63.5% | £68,500 | £13,000 – £202,500 |
| Terraced | 76 | 33.0% | £95,000 | £38,000 – £331,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 3.0% | £120,000 | £50,000 – £250,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.4% | £51,000 | £51,000 – £51,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Crest Avenue, Grays
147 of the sales on record are leasehold and 83 freehold — 63.9% 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 £68,500 and the median freehold sale £115,000 — a gap of +67.9%. 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 | 147 | 63.9% | £68,500 |
| Freehold | 83 | 36.1% | £115,000 |
| New build | 2 | 0.9% | £51,748 |
| Existing home | 228 | 99.1% | £75,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -31.0%. 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 10 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 Crest Avenue, Grays
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Thurrock, 47.3% of 74,813 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 398 | 0.5% |
| B | 8,240 | 11.0% |
| C | 26,726 | 35.7% |
| D | 29,523 | 39.5% |
| E | 8,121 | 10.9% |
| F | 1,426 | 1.9% |
| G | 379 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Thurrock at £1,372 a month as of Jun 2026 — £935 for a one-bedroom home and £1,464 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £75,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 21.95% 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 RM17, 315 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 130 violent, 8 burglary, 26 vehicle-related and 43 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 176,001 residents the 2021 census counted in Thurrock, that is 1.79 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 Crest Avenue, Grays
The 2021 census counted 176,001 residents in Thurrock across 66,377 households. 64.0% of those households own their home and 36.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a RM17 postcode: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thameside Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 844 |
| Thames Park Secondary School | Secondary | Free schools | 808 |
| Belmont Castle Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 691 |
| Grays Convent High School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 655 |
| Little Thurrock Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 639 |
| The Hathaway Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 586 |
| St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 530 |
| Quarry Hill Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 501 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Grays Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Tilbury Town Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Chafford Hundred Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Swanscombe Rail Station | Rail | 3.7 km |
Section 09
How Crest Avenue, Grays compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Crest Avenue, Grays sits below that national figure — -52.4%.
Within Grays the street ranks 595 of 608 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-53.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,795 per square metre, across 103 of the 230 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 £13,000 to £331,000. 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.
Crest Avenue, Grays sits in Thurrock, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Thurrock at 8.7 times median local earnings of £40,623 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
- Argent Street£168,125 median
- London Road£133,000 median
- Rectory Road£175,000 median
- Lewes Close£69,000 median
- Hogg Lane£156,000 median
- Conway Gardens£69,000 median
- Lodge Lane£237,000 median
- Bridge Road£87,748 median
- Falcon Avenue£83,995 median
- St Leonards Close£105,000 median
- Curling Lane£132,000 median
- Timber Court£115,000 median
- Jetty Walk£102,000 median
- Bankfoot£131,500 median
- Whitehall Lane£106,750 median
- William Street£119,998 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 25, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue6 sales
- FLAT 6, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue6 sales
- 4 Crest Avenue5 sales
- FLAT 21, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue5 sales
- FLAT 29, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue5 sales
- FLAT 7, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue5 sales
- 6 Crest Avenue5 sales
- FLAT 15, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue5 sales
- 23 Crest Avenue5 sales
- FLAT 10, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue5 sales
- 8 Crest Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 2, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue4 sales
- 14 Crest Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 1, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue4 sales
- 20 Crest Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 6, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue4 sales
- FLAT 8, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue4 sales
- 22 Crest Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 4, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 20, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 1, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 15, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 31, TREFOIL HOUSE Crest Avenue3 sales
- FLAT 18, CHEVRON HOUSE Crest Avenue3 sales
Back to Grays house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Crest Avenue, Grays?
The median price paid in Crest Avenue, Grays across every sale on the register is £75,000. 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 Crest Avenue, Grays?
230 sales are on record for Crest Avenue, Grays, the most recent completing on 27 Jun 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Crest Avenue, Grays house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.2% between 2007 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Crest Avenue, Grays house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £200,000, 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 Crest Avenue, Grays?
£1,795 per square metre, from the 103 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 27 Jun 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, “Crest Avenue, Grays 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.