IG10 4 house prices are built from 3,073 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £360,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +4.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -25.0%.
Median price paid
£360,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+4.7%
Change in real terms
-25.0%
Median per m²
£3,571
HM Land Registry3,073 sales677 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How IG10 4 prices moved
The chart tracks the median IG10 4 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £162,500 | £360,827 |
| 2000s | 10 | £350,000 | £637,597 |
| 2010s | 10 | £530,000 | £747,300 |
| 2020s | 7 | £725,000 | £740,761 |
The highest yearly median on record for IG10 4 is £860,000 in 2024; the lowest is £114,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £114,500 to £555,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £254,244, so the real change over the whole record is +118.3% — about +2.55% 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: +4.7% in cash against -25.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 CRESCENT VIEW High Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 38 Smarts Lane | 2 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £560,000 | £560,000 |
| 79 Smarts Lane | 2 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| 58 Meadow Road | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £690,000 | £690,000 |
| 55 Smarts Lane | 25 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 21 Park Hill | 13 Mar 2026 | Detached | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 81 Lower Park Road | 12 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £860,000 | £860,000 |
| 53 Smarts Lane | 10 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £517,000 | £517,000 |
| 50 High Beech Road | 9 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 14 Station Road | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £1,440,000 | £1,440,000 |
| FLAT 29 CARLTON HOUSE Algers Road | 5 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £299,950 | £299,950 |
| FLAT 4 HOMECHERRY HOUSE, 86 High Road | 23 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 106 Smarts Lane | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| 9 Hazelwood | 4 Feb 2026 | Detached | £950,000 | £950,000 |
| 6 Meadow Road | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 15 Newnham Close | 23 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £1,675,000 | £1,675,000 |
| 187 Smarts Lane | 22 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £620,000 | £620,000 |
| FLAT 50 CARLTON HOUSE Algers Road | 15 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 20B Meadow Road | 18 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £337,500 | £344,837 |
| 20A Meadow Road | 17 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £367,000 | £374,978 |
| 17 Park Hill | 12 Dec 2025 | Detached | £900,000 | £919,565 |
| 40 Grange Court | 5 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 3 CRESCENT VIEW High Road | 24 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 56 High Road | 21 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £675,000 | £689,674 |
| 85 Lower Park Road | 12 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £760,000 | £776,522 |
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 IG10 4 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 CRESCENT VIEW High Road | £30,000 (1996) | £320,000 (2026) | +8.2% | +5.5% |
| 79 Smarts Lane | £245,000 (2008) | £550,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 38 Smarts Lane | £452,500 (2018) | £560,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.9% |
| 58 Meadow Road | £160,000 (2001) | £690,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 55 Smarts Lane | £330,000 (2012) | £565,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 21 Park Hill | £485,000 (2001) | £480,000 (2026) | 0.0% | -2.7% |
| 81 Lower Park Road | £815,000 (2022) | £860,000 (2026) | +1.4% | -2.3% |
| 53 Smarts Lane | £217,000 (2002) | £517,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 50 High Beech Road | £160,000 (2007) | £575,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +3.9% |
| 14 Station Road | £194,000 (1995) | £1,440,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| FLAT 29 CARLTON HOUSE Algers Road | £98,000 (1997) | £299,950 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 4 HOMECHERRY HOUSE, 86 High Road | £130,000 (2001) | £270,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. IG10 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 1,144 | 37.2% | £575,000 | £20,000 – £3,350,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 779 | 25.3% | £210,000 | £30,000 – £1,270,000 |
| Semi-detached | 578 | 18.8% | £415,000 | £24,000 – £2,700,000 |
| Terraced | 572 | 18.6% | £310,000 | £23,000 – £4,350,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in IG10 4
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 466 certificates cover IG10 4, and their median floor area is 100 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +30.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 100 m² | about 1,071 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 62 m² | about 667 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 166 m² | about 1,784 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 22.3% | 104 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 31.1% | 145 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in IG10 4
799 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,274 freehold — 26.0% 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 £210,000 and the median freehold sale £458,975 — a gap of +118.6%. 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 | 799 | 26.0% | £210,000 |
| Freehold | 2,274 | 74.0% | £458,975 |
| New build | 277 | 9.0% | £229,950 |
| Existing home | 2,796 | 91.0% | £375,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -38.7%. 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 124 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 IG10 4
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 £360,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.14% 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 IG10, 223 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 84 violent, 6 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 134,980 residents the 2021 census counted in Epping Forest, that is 1.65 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 IG10 4
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.
11 state and independent schools have a IG10 postcode: 8 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roding Valley High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,473 |
| Davenant Foundation School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,199 |
| Debden Park High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,046 |
| Staples Road Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 626 |
| Thomas Willingale Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Foundation school | 486 |
| Hereward Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 445 |
| White Bridge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 268 |
| The Alderton Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 225 |
| The Alderton Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Loughton Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
| Loughton Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
| Loughton Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
| Debden Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
Section 09
How IG10 4 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. IG10 4 sits above that national figure — +128.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,571 per square metre, across 677 of the 3,073 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 £20,000 to £4,350,000. 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.
IG10 4 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
Other sectors in IG10
The wider district is IG10.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in IG10 4?
The median price paid in IG10 4 across every sale on the register is £360,000. 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 IG10 4?
3,073 sales are on record for IG10 4, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have IG10 4 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +4.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -25.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were IG10 4 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £860,000, 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 IG10 4?
£3,571 per square metre, from the 677 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 19 Jun 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, “IG10 4 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.