Portland Avenue, Harwich house prices are built from 76 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £102,500. Across the 22 years from 2002 to 2024 the median moved +190.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +58.3%.
Median price paid
£102,500
Change in cash, 2002–2024
+190.1%
Change in real terms
+58.3%
Median per m²
£1,451
HM Land Registry76 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Portland Avenue, Harwich prices moved
The chart tracks the median Portland Avenue, Harwich house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1 | £73,250 | £133,440 |
| 2010s | 1 | £135,500 | £191,055 |
| 2020s | 1 | £212,500 | £217,120 |
The highest yearly median on record for Portland Avenue, Harwich is £212,500 in 2024; the lowest is £73,250 in 2002. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £73,250 to £212,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £141,289, so the real change over the whole record is +58.3% — about +2.11% 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: +190.1% in cash against +58.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £242,000 | £242,000 |
| 45 | 12 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 43a | 9 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 22 | 14 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £162,000 | £170,463 |
| 31 | 29 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 27 | 7 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £212,500 | £223,601 |
| 43 | 9 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £218,500 | £229,914 |
| 55 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £222,500 | £234,123 |
| 29 | 19 Dec 2023 | Detached | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 16 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £251,000 | £290,805 |
| 18 | 18 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 23 | 14 May 2021 | Terraced | £157,000 | £198,360 |
| 47 | 25 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £162,500 | £210,399 |
| 7 | 12 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £130,000 | £170,037 |
| 27 | 11 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £180,000 | £235,436 |
| 13 | 10 Apr 2017 | Terraced | £110,000 | £149,710 |
| 57 | 21 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £143,000 | £199,634 |
| 18 | 30 Sep 2016 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £195,446 |
| 24 | 31 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £135,500 | £189,163 |
| 16 | 31 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £167,525 |
| 11 | 1 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £89,000 | £124,248 |
| 9 | 17 Dec 2015 | Terraced | £100,000 | £141,000 |
| 4 | 22 Jul 2015 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £218,550 |
| 27 | 2 Jul 2014 | Terraced | £95,000 | £136,267 |
| 10 | 27 Jun 2014 | Detached | £151,750 | £217,668 |
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 Portland Avenue, Harwich values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Portland Avenue | £73,000 (2002) | £242,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 45 Portland Avenue | £120,000 (2005) | £180,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 43A Portland Avenue | £72,000 (2001) | £210,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 27 Portland Avenue | £88,775 (2010) | £212,500 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.3% |
| 55 Portland Avenue | £125,500 (2005) | £222,500 (2024) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 29 Portland Avenue | £40,000 (2001) | £120,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 16 Portland Avenue | £120,000 (2016) | £251,000 (2022) | +13.1% | +9.6% |
| 18 Portland Avenue | £116,000 (2003) | £235,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.7% |
| 23 Portland Avenue | £135,000 (2007) | £157,000 (2021) | +1.1% | -1.2% |
| 47 Portland Avenue | £43,500 (1997) | £162,500 (2020) | +5.9% | +3.7% |
| 7 Portland Avenue | £45,500 (2000) | £130,000 (2019) | +5.7% | +3.3% |
| 13 Portland Avenue | £40,000 (1999) | £110,000 (2017) | +5.8% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Portland Avenue, Harwich 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 | 47 | 61.8% | £97,500 | £32,000 – £222,500 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 31.6% | £116,000 | £30,000 – £251,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 6.6% | £120,000 | £57,500 – £151,750 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Portland Avenue, Harwich
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 76 | 100.0% | £102,500 |
A further 3 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 Portland Avenue, Harwich
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Tendring, 36.5% of 78,792 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 640 | 0.8% |
| B | 9,719 | 12.3% |
| C | 18,389 | 23.3% |
| D | 30,508 | 38.7% |
| E | 13,932 | 17.7% |
| F | 4,089 | 5.2% |
| G | 1,515 | 1.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Tendring at £1,051 a month as of Jun 2026 — £757 for a one-bedroom home and £1,183 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £102,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.30% 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 CO12, 139 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 60 violent, 4 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 148,291 residents the 2021 census counted in Tendring, that is 0.94 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 Portland Avenue, Harwich
The 2021 census counted 148,291 residents in Tendring across 67,452 households. 71.9% of those households own their home and 28.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a CO12 postcode: 8 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harwich and Dovercourt High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,075 |
| Chase Lane Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 445 |
| The Mayflower Primary School | Primary | Community school | 356 |
| Spring Meadow Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 354 |
| Harwich Community Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 222 |
| All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Dovercourt | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 194 |
| St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Ramsey | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 130 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 114 |
| All Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Great Oakley | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 100 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Harwich International Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 1.8 km |
| Harwich International Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Dovercourt Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Harwich Town Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
Section 09
How Portland Avenue, Harwich compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Portland Avenue, Harwich sits below that national figure — -34.9%.
Within Harwich the street ranks 209 of 268 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £126,150 (-18.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,451 per square metre, across 24 of the 76 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 £30,000 to £251,000. 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.
Portland Avenue, Harwich sits in Tendring, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Tendring at 8.0 times median local earnings of £36,030 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
- Main Road£121,000 median
- Fronks Road£182,500 median
- Harwich Road£162,000 median
- Heron Way£135,000 median
- Ramsey Road£151,000 median
- High Street£85,000 median
- Manor Road£101,500 median
- Gravel Hill Way£120,998 median
- Lee Road£125,000 median
- Artillery Drive£190,000 median
- Garland Road£78,000 median
- Clarkes Road£98,000 median
- Parkeston Road£103,000 median
- Ashley Road£147,000 median
- Una Road£108,750 median
- Oakley Road£162,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 13 Portland Avenue5 sales
- 27 Portland Avenue4 sales
- 47 Portland Avenue4 sales
- 7 Portland Avenue4 sales
- 22 Portland Avenue3 sales
- 43A Portland Avenue3 sales
- 29 Portland Avenue3 sales
- 18 Portland Avenue3 sales
- 11 Portland Avenue3 sales
- 53 Portland Avenue3 sales
- 45 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 55 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 16 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 23 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 24 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 9 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 4 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 10 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 12 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 51 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 33 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 21 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 30 Portland Avenue2 sales
- 28 Portland Avenue2 sales
Back to Harwich house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Portland Avenue, Harwich?
The median price paid in Portland Avenue, Harwich across every sale on the register is £102,500. 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 Portland Avenue, Harwich?
76 sales are on record for Portland Avenue, Harwich, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Portland Avenue, Harwich house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +190.1% between 2002 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +58.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Portland Avenue, Harwich house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £212,500, 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 Portland Avenue, Harwich?
£1,451 per square metre, from the 24 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 20 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, “Portland Avenue, Harwich 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.