Wharley Hook, Harlow house prices are built from 212 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 27 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £168,250. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +49.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.8%.
Median price paid
£168,250
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+49.2%
Change in real terms
+6.8%
Median per m²
£2,438
HM Land Registry212 sales75 with floor areaLatest sale 27 May 2026
Section 01
How Wharley Hook, Harlow prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wharley Hook, Harlow house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2026. 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 | 4 | £54,250 | £120,461 |
| 2000s | 9 | £158,000 | £287,829 |
| 2010s | 8 | £217,000 | £305,970 |
| 2020s | 6 | £320,000 | £326,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wharley Hook, Harlow is £355,000 in 2026; the lowest is £53,750 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £53,750 to £355,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,596, so the real change over the whole record is +204.5% — about +3.78% 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: +49.2% in cash against +6.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 27 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 140 | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 167 | 10 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 179 | 26 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £427,000 | £427,000 |
| 105 | 25 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 149 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 3 | 15 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 62 | 17 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 14 | 3 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 91 | 29 May 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 131 | 23 May 2025 | Terraced | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| 93 | 14 May 2025 | Terraced | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 1 | 27 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 217 | 19 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £333,000 | £340,239 |
| 64 | 9 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 76 | 16 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 150 | 25 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £480,000 | £505,075 |
| 57 | 28 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £285,000 | £299,888 |
| 211 | 10 May 2024 | Terraced | £335,000 | £352,500 |
| 32 | 26 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 186 | 29 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 130 | 11 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £362,500 | £381,437 |
| 97 | 31 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £330,000 | £356,552 |
| 151 | 29 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 36 | 22 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £378,000 | £408,414 |
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 Wharley Hook, Harlow values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 Wharley Hook | £166,500 (2013) | £355,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.0% |
| 167 Wharley Hook | £52,500 (1997) | £360,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 179 Wharley Hook | £130,000 (2002) | £427,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 3 Wharley Hook | £57,500 (1997) | £320,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 62 Wharley Hook | £33,000 (2000) | £360,000 (2025) | +10.0% | +7.1% |
| 91 Wharley Hook | £245,000 (2020) | £300,000 (2025) | +4.1% | -0.7% |
| 93 Wharley Hook | £131,000 (2003) | £320,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 1 Wharley Hook | £70,000 (1998) | £260,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 217 Wharley Hook | £50,000 (1997) | £333,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 64 Wharley Hook | £320,000 (2022) | £355,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +0.4% |
| 76 Wharley Hook | £176,000 (2014) | £310,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.6% |
| 150 Wharley Hook | £210,000 (2005) | £480,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wharley Hook, Harlow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 196 | 92.5% | £168,000 | £33,000 – £480,000 |
| Semi-detached | 12 | 5.7% | £198,000 | £50,000 – £333,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 1.9% | £45,950 | £38,500 – £280,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wharley Hook, Harlow
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 209 freehold — 1.4% 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 £45,950 and the median freehold sale £169,000 — a gap of +267.8%. 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 | 3 | 1.4% | £45,950 |
| Freehold | 209 | 98.6% | £169,000 |
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 Wharley Hook, Harlow
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 144 | 0.3% |
| B | 5,426 | 9.5% |
| C | 18,326 | 32.1% |
| D | 21,874 | 38.3% |
| E | 8,666 | 15.2% |
| F | 2,110 | 3.7% |
| G | 514 | 0.9% |
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 £168,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.14% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Wharley Hook, Harlow
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passmores Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,199 |
| St Mark's West Essex Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,099 |
| Stewards Academy – Science Specialist, Harlow | Secondary | Academy converter | 978 |
| Sir Frederick Gibberd College | Secondary | Free schools | 880 |
| Pear Tree Mead Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 460 |
| Longwood Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 423 |
| Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, Harlow | Primary | Academy converter | 412 |
| Abbotsweld Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 307 |
| Kingsmoor Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 280 |
| William Martin Church of England Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 234 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Harlow Town Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Harlow Mill Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Roydon Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
| Epping Underground Station | Metro or underground | 6.9 km |
Section 09
How Wharley Hook, Harlow compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wharley Hook, Harlow sits above that national figure — +6.8%.
Within Harlow the street ranks 364 of 557 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,000 (-0.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,438 per square metre, across 75 of the 212 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 £33,000 to £480,000. 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.
Wharley Hook, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- Berecroft£120,000 median
- Lower Meadow£130,000 median
- Nicholls Field£138,000 median
- Spinning Wheel Mead£131,995 median
- Radburn Close£154,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 167 Wharley Hook7 sales
- 17 Wharley Hook5 sales
- 61 Wharley Hook5 sales
- 84 Wharley Hook5 sales
- 3 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 1 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 217 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 150 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 36 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 48 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 213 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 200 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 78 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 119 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 195 Wharley Hook4 sales
- 140 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 179 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 76 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 80 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 51 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 46 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 153 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 83 Wharley Hook3 sales
- 29 Wharley Hook3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wharley Hook, Harlow?
The median price paid in Wharley Hook, Harlow across every sale on the register is £168,250. 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 Wharley Hook, Harlow?
212 sales are on record for Wharley Hook, Harlow, the most recent completing on 27 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wharley Hook, Harlow house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +49.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wharley Hook, Harlow house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £355,000, set in 2026. 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 Wharley Hook, Harlow?
£2,438 per square metre, from the 75 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 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, “Wharley Hook, 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.