Lower Meadow, Harlow house prices

Lower Meadow, Harlow house prices are built from 203 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 26 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +81.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +31.4%.

HM Land Registry203 sales59 with floor areaLatest sale 26 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Lower Meadow, Harlow 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 Lower Meadow, Harlow is £279,250 in 2025; the lowest is £39,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £39,500 to £279,250.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £85,685, so the real change over the whole record is +233.0% — about +4.24% 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: +81.3% in cash against +31.4% 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 Lower Meadow, Harlow values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

56 of the sales on record are leasehold and 147 freehold — 27.6% 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 £117,000 and the median freehold sale £133,200 — a gap of +13.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 9 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 Epping Forest, 41.9% of 57,060 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% 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 Epping Forest at £1,843 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,229 for a one-bedroom home and £1,939 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £130,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.01% 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 CM18, 375 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 152 violent, 16 burglary, 22 vehicle-related and 60 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.

Against the 134,980 residents the 2021 census counted in Epping Forest, that is 2.78 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 134,980 residents in Epping Forest across 54,559 households. 70.3% of those households own their home and 29.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a CM18 postcode: 10 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. Lower Meadow, Harlow sits below that national figure — -17.5%.

Within Harlow the street ranks 480 of 557 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,000 (-23.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,602 per square metre, across 59 of the 203 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 £35,000 to £305,000. 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.

Lower Meadow, Harlow sits in Epping Forest, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Epping Forest at 12.4 times median local earnings of £41,452 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

• Long Banks£109,500 median
• Rundells£165,000 median
• Willowfield£127,000 median
• Westfield£165,000 median
• Moorfield£123,000 median
• Barn Mead£142,250 median
• Abbotsweld£149,500 median
• Church Leys£159,995 median
• Joyners Field£135,000 median
• Kingsland£146,498 median
• Peterswood£125,000 median
• Wharley Hook£168,250 median
• Berecroft£120,000 median
• Nicholls Field£138,000 median
• Spinning Wheel Mead£131,995 median
• Radburn Close£154,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 152 Lower Meadow5 sales
• 88 Lower Meadow5 sales
• 151 Lower Meadow5 sales
• 135 Lower Meadow5 sales
• 115 Lower Meadow5 sales
• 37 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 85 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 52 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 156 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 155 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 136 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 111 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 9 Lower Meadow4 sales
• 98 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 32 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 30 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 161 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 110 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 24 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 129 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 153 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 14 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 102 Lower Meadow3 sales
• 1 Lower Meadow3 sales

Back to Harlow house prices.

What is the average house price in Lower Meadow, Harlow?

The median price paid in Lower Meadow, Harlow across every sale on the register is £130,000. 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 Lower Meadow, Harlow?

203 sales are on record for Lower Meadow, Harlow, the most recent completing on 26 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lower Meadow, Harlow house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +81.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +31.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lower Meadow, Harlow house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £279,250, 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 Lower Meadow, Harlow?

£1,602 per square metre, from the 59 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 26 May 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, “Lower Meadow, Harlow 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.