Colchester Road, Halstead house prices

Colchester Road, Halstead house prices are built from 181 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 12 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £201,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +25.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.1%.

HM Land Registry181 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Colchester Road, Halstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 Colchester Road, Halstead is £510,000 in 2024; the lowest is £60,000 in 1999. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £82,500 to £326,250.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £174,925, so the real change over the whole record is +90.6% — about +2.33% 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: +25.5% in cash against -9.1% 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 Colchester Road, Halstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

8 of the sales on record are leasehold and 173 freehold — 4.4% 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 £199,000 and the median freehold sale £201,000 — a gap of +1.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +12.2%. 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 Braintree, 48.3% of 69,960 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.9% 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 Braintree at £1,224 a month as of Jun 2026 — £858 for a one-bedroom home and £1,366 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £201,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.31% 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 CO9, 9 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 6 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 18.6 times quieter.

Against the 155,268 residents the 2021 census counted in Braintree, that is 0.06 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 155,268 residents in Braintree across 64,983 households. 68.6% of those households own their home and 31.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a CO9 postcode: 11 primary, 2 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. Colchester Road, Halstead sits above that national figure — +27.6%.

Within Halstead the street ranks 197 of 391 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £175,000 (+14.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,508 per square metre, across 50 of the 181 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 £25,620 to £620,000. 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.

Colchester Road, Halstead sits in Braintree, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Braintree at 9.2 times median local earnings of £37,704 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

• Hawthorn Close£97,000 median
• Swan Street£158,500 median
• Hedingham Road£163,750 median
• Kings Road£145,000 median
• Parsonage Street£145,000 median
• Colne Road£136,750 median
• Trinity Road£125,000 median
• Highfields£161,000 median
• New Street£117,500 median
• Nether Court£170,000 median
• Church Road£245,500 median
• Church Street£238,500 median
• Tidings Hill£145,000 median
• Mount Pleasant£133,875 median
• The Street£244,000 median
• Mill Bridge£72,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 6, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road7 sales
• 55 Colchester Road5 sales
• 10, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road5 sales
• 7, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road5 sales
• 130 Colchester Road4 sales
• BROOMHILL HOUSE Colchester Road4 sales
• 63A Colchester Road4 sales
• 65 Colchester Road4 sales
• 132 Colchester Road4 sales
• 9, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road4 sales
• 4, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road4 sales
• 67 Colchester Road3 sales
• BOURN COTTAGE Colchester Road3 sales
• 59 Colchester Road3 sales
• 51 Colchester Road3 sales
• 11, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road3 sales
• BLUEBRIDGE COACH HOUSE Colchester Road3 sales
• 190 Colchester Road3 sales
• IVY PLACE Colchester Road3 sales
• 71 Colchester Road3 sales
• 42 Colchester Road3 sales
• 129 Colchester Road3 sales
• 80 Colchester Road3 sales
• 8, BLUEBRIDGE COTTAGES Colchester Road3 sales

Back to Halstead house prices.

What is the average house price in Colchester Road, Halstead?

The median price paid in Colchester Road, Halstead across every sale on the register is £201,000. 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 Colchester Road, Halstead?

181 sales are on record for Colchester Road, Halstead, the most recent completing on 12 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Colchester Road, Halstead house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +25.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Colchester Road, Halstead house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £510,000, set in 2024. 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 Colchester Road, Halstead?

£2,508 per square metre, from the 50 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 12 Dec 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, “Colchester Road, Halstead 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.