Long Lane, Grays house prices

Long Lane, Grays house prices are built from 352 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £229,998. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +46.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.4%.

HM Land Registry352 sales98 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Long Lane, Grays house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 Long Lane, Grays is £455,000 in 2025; the lowest is £65,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £65,500 to £455,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £142,085, so the real change over the whole record is +227.2% — about +4.17% 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: +46.8% in cash against +6.4% 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 Long Lane, Grays values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Long Lane, Grays is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

28 of the sales on record are leasehold and 324 freehold — 8.0% 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 £225,000 and the median freehold sale £229,998 — a gap of +2.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -58.1%. 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 8 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 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.

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 £229,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.16% 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 RM16, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 3 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 176,001 residents the 2021 census counted in Thurrock, that is 0.86 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 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.

15 state and independent schools have a RM16 postcode: 11 primary, 4 secondary. 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. Long Lane, Grays sits above that national figure — +46.0%.

Within Grays the street ranks 188 of 608 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £160,000 (+43.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,162 per square metre, across 98 of the 352 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 £43,500 to £880,000. 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.

Long Lane, 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.

Streets nearby

• Dudley Close£115,000 median
• Drake Road£163,250 median
• Francisco Close£165,000 median
• Sewell Close£153,500 median
• Southwell Close£155,500 median
• Swiftsure Road£127,000 median
• Gilbert Road£155,000 median
• Grifon Road£159,995 median
• Plymouth Road£151,998 median
• Blackshots Lane£230,000 median
• Sachfield Drive£225,000 median
• Welling Road£153,500 median
• Fleming Road£152,500 median
• Hawkins Drive£147,500 median
• Cole Avenue£148,375 median
• Hill House Drive£137,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 73 Long Lane6 sales
• 216 Long Lane5 sales
• 293 Long Lane4 sales
• 119 Long Lane4 sales
• 210 Long Lane4 sales
• 10 Long Lane4 sales
• 254 Long Lane4 sales
• 206 Long Lane4 sales
• 263 Long Lane3 sales
• 179 Long Lane3 sales
• FLAT 65, ELIZABETH GARDENS Long Lane3 sales
• FLAT 34, ELIZABETH GARDENS Long Lane3 sales
• FLAT 30, ELIZABETH GARDENS Long Lane3 sales
• 170 Long Lane3 sales
• 273 Long Lane3 sales
• 228 Long Lane3 sales
• FLAT 48, ELIZABETH GARDENS Long Lane3 sales
• 54 Long Lane3 sales
• 300 Long Lane3 sales
• 258 Long Lane3 sales
• 111 Long Lane3 sales
• 260 Long Lane3 sales
• 291 Long Lane3 sales
• 122A Long Lane3 sales

Back to Grays house prices.

What is the average house price in Long Lane, Grays?

The median price paid in Long Lane, Grays across every sale on the register is £229,998. 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 Long Lane, Grays?

352 sales are on record for Long Lane, Grays, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Long Lane, Grays house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +46.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Long Lane, Grays house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £455,000, set in 2025. 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 Long Lane, Grays?

£3,162 per square metre, from the 98 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 Mar 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, “Long Lane, 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.