Highwood Lane, Loughton house prices are built from 95 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 13 Sep 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £156,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +73.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +27.0%.
Median price paid
£156,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+73.1%
Change in real terms
+27.0%
Median per m²
£1,965
HM Land Registry95 sales20 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Sep 2024
Section 01
How Highwood Lane, Loughton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Highwood Lane, Loughton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £49,000 | £108,803 |
| 2000s | 3 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2010s | 2 | £169,000 | £238,290 |
| 2020s | 1 | £292,500 | £298,859 |
The highest yearly median on record for Highwood Lane, Loughton is £300,000 in 2019; the lowest is £49,000 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £49,000 to £292,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,292, so the real change over the whole record is +189.6% — about +3.87% 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: +73.1% in cash against +27.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | 13 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 55 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 39 | 28 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 133 | 3 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £257,500 | £270,951 |
| 30 | 15 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 47 | 16 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 154 | 22 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £235,540 |
| 106 | 14 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £232,000 | £250,667 |
| 44 | 3 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 107 | 4 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 98 | 29 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 133 | 19 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £241,000 | £312,039 |
| 57 | 13 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £275,000 | £356,061 |
| 107 | 13 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 56 | 12 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 53 | 18 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £310,000 | £405,473 |
| 11 | 25 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 101 | 7 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £320,455 |
| 129 | 8 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £257,000 | £336,150 |
| 103 | 22 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £247,000 | £329,178 |
| 19 | 17 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £227,500 | £309,628 |
| 127 | 31 Jan 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £258,591 |
| 140 | 23 Jan 2017 | Terraced | £292,000 | £397,413 |
| 133 | 23 Jan 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £236,000 | £321,197 |
| 23 | 21 Oct 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £355,990 |
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 Highwood Lane, Loughton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 Highwood Lane | £185,000 (2012) | £380,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.1% |
| 133 Highwood Lane | £117,000 (2009) | £257,500 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.3% |
| 47 Highwood Lane | £59,000 (1997) | £380,000 (2024) | +7.1% | +4.4% |
| 154 Highwood Lane | £107,500 (2011) | £218,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.0% |
| 106 Highwood Lane | £37,500 (1997) | £232,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| 44 Highwood Lane | £141,000 (2002) | £400,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 107 Highwood Lane | £190,000 (2020) | £250,000 (2022) | +14.7% | +8.5% |
| 98 Highwood Lane | £145,000 (2013) | £250,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +5.1% |
| 53 Highwood Lane | £185,000 (2007) | £310,000 (2019) | +4.4% | +1.9% |
| 11 Highwood Lane | £152,000 (2005) | £300,000 (2019) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 101 Highwood Lane | £105,000 (2008) | £245,000 (2019) | +8.0% | +5.6% |
| 129 Highwood Lane | £112,500 (2003) | £257,000 (2019) | +5.3% | +2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Highwood Lane, Loughton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 58 | 61.1% | £147,500 | £30,000 – £315,000 |
| Terraced | 29 | 30.5% | £185,000 | £56,000 – £400,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 4.2% | £55,000 | £49,000 – £164,995 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 4.2% | £135,000 | £59,000 – £380,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Highwood Lane, Loughton
60 of the sales on record are leasehold and 35 freehold — 63.2% 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 £146,000 and the median freehold sale £185,000 — a gap of +26.7%. 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 | 60 | 63.2% | £146,000 |
| Freehold | 35 | 36.8% | £185,000 |
| New build | 1 | 1.1% | £91,000 |
| Existing home | 94 | 98.9% | £156,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -41.7%. 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 2 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 Highwood Lane, Loughton
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 £156,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.18% 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 Highwood Lane, Loughton
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 Highwood Lane, Loughton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Highwood Lane, Loughton sits below that national figure — -1.0%.
Within Loughton the street ranks 299 of 321 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-37.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,965 per square metre, across 20 of the 95 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 £400,000. 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.
Highwood Lane, Loughton 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
- High Road£185,000 median
- Smarts Lane£260,000 median
- Forest Road£279,998 median
- Valley Hill£250,000 median
- Willingale Road£197,500 median
- Englands Lane£250,000 median
- Maple Gate£138,500 median
- Hereward Green£108,000 median
- Swans Hope£120,000 median
- Algers Road£216,000 median
- Colebrook Lane£181,000 median
- Goldings Road£226,250 median
- River Way£213,000 median
- Southern Drive£247,998 median
- Hillyfields£171,250 median
- Grosvenor Drive£240,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 133 Highwood Lane5 sales
- 44 Highwood Lane4 sales
- 103 Highwood Lane4 sales
- 23 Highwood Lane4 sales
- 52 Highwood Lane4 sales
- 132 Highwood Lane4 sales
- 55 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 11 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 101 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 129 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 45 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 150 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 1 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 145 Highwood Lane3 sales
- 47 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 154 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 106 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 107 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 98 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 53 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 19 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 127 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 5 Highwood Lane2 sales
- 24 Highwood Lane2 sales
Back to Loughton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Highwood Lane, Loughton?
The median price paid in Highwood Lane, Loughton across every sale on the register is £156,000. 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 Highwood Lane, Loughton?
95 sales are on record for Highwood Lane, Loughton, the most recent completing on 13 Sep 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Highwood Lane, Loughton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +73.1% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +27.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Highwood Lane, Loughton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £300,000, set in 2019. 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 Highwood Lane, Loughton?
£1,965 per square metre, from the 20 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 13 Sep 2024. 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, “Highwood Lane, Loughton 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.