Sold Price History


Lake Avenue, Rainham house prices

Lake Avenue, Rainham house prices are built from 148 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £230,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +110.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +52.2%.

Median price paid

£230,500

Change in cash, 2015–2025

+110.0%

Change in real terms

+52.2%

Median per m²

£2,416

HM Land Registry148 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Sep 2025

Section 01

How Lake Avenue, Rainham prices moved

The chart tracks the median Lake Avenue, Rainham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.

Lake Avenue, Rainham house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s4£69,500£154,323
2000s6£140,500£255,950
2010s5£290,000£408,900
2020s3£425,000£434,239
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Lake Avenue, Rainham is £525,000 in 2025; the lowest is £68,500 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £69,500 to £525,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £154,323, so the real change over the whole record is +247.6% — 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: +110.0% in cash against +52.2% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
132 Sep 2025Detached£525,000£536,413
8427 Aug 2025Detached£725,000£740,761
129 Jul 2025Terraced£355,000£362,717
4521 Mar 2025Semi-detached£750,000£766,304
12020 Jan 2025Semi-detached£400,000£408,696
64a12 Dec 2024Flat or maisonette£260,000£273,582
2631 Oct 2024Semi-detached£450,000£473,507
2730 Jul 2024Detached£525,000£552,425
1027 Jun 2024Semi-detached£342,000£359,866
8916 Feb 2024Terraced£425,000£447,201
10611 Sep 2023Semi-detached£420,000£453,793
10323 Jun 2023Detached£430,000£464,598
5830 Mar 2022Detached£605,000£700,945
4930 Jun 2021Detached£570,000£720,161
29d29 Jun 2021Flat or maisonette£200,000£252,688
628 Jun 2021Terraced£360,000£454,839
132a11 Jun 2021Semi-detached£525,000£663,306
8923 Apr 2021Terraced£375,000£473,790
454 Dec 2020Semi-detached£615,000£796,281
5027 Nov 2020Semi-detached£450,000£582,645
912 Sep 2020Terraced£395,000£511,433
6017 Jul 2020Detached£360,000£466,116
7728 Nov 2019Terraced£335,000£438,173
202 Aug 2019Terraced£294,000£384,545
2a3 Jun 2019Flat or maisonette£239,000£312,607
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Lake Avenue, Rainham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
13 Lake Avenue£95,500 (1995)£525,000 (2025)+5.8%+3.1%
84 Lake Avenue£375,000 (2005)£725,000 (2025)+3.4%+0.4%
45 Lake Avenue£239,500 (2010)£750,000 (2025)+7.9%+4.7%
120 Lake Avenue£89,995 (1998)£400,000 (2025)+5.7%+2.9%
64A Lake Avenue£109,995 (2002)£260,000 (2024)+4.0%+1.2%
27 Lake Avenue£147,000 (1998)£525,000 (2024)+5.0%+2.3%
89 Lake Avenue£70,000 (1996)£425,000 (2024)+6.7%+3.9%
58 Lake Avenue£320,000 (2007)£605,000 (2022)+4.3%+1.6%
49 Lake Avenue£480,000 (2016)£570,000 (2021)+3.5%+1.5%
132A Lake Avenue£285,000 (2014)£525,000 (2021)+9.1%+7.2%
2A Lake Avenue£59,995 (1999)£239,000 (2019)+7.2%+4.8%
111 Lake Avenue£178,000 (2005)£450,000 (2018)+7.4%+4.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Detached5939.9%£250,000£60,000 – £735,000
Semi-detached4027.0%£250,000£66,000 – £750,000
Terraced2718.2%£181,000£38,000 – £425,000
Flat or maisonette2214.9%£135,000£42,500 – £260,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Lake Avenue, Rainham

22 of the sales on record are leasehold and 126 freehold — 14.9% 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 £140,000 and the median freehold sale £248,498 — a gap of +77.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold2214.9%£140,000
Freehold12685.1%£248,498
New build42.7%£217,500
Existing home14497.3%£230,500
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -5.6%. 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 8 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 Lake Avenue, Rainham

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Havering, 40.0% of 109,391 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A2940.3%
B12,93311.8%
C30,48827.9%
D45,19841.3%
E16,74515.3%
F2,9722.7%
G7610.7%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Havering.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Havering at £1,563 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,214 for a one-bedroom home and £1,843 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £230,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.14% 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 RM13, 271 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 74 violent, 6 burglary, 35 vehicle-related and 52 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.

Against the 262,052 residents the 2021 census counted in Havering, that is 1.03 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 Lake Avenue, Rainham

The 2021 census counted 262,052 residents in Havering across 101,276 households. 70.5% of those households own their home and 29.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a RM13 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Harris Academy RainhamSecondaryAcademy sponsor led913
The Brittons AcademySecondaryAcademy converter730
Parsonage Farm Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school564
Newtons Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school459
Rainham Village Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school453
Brady Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school423
Whybridge Junior SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter359
Scargill Junior SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter358
Harris Rainham Sixth Form16 plusFree schools 16 to 19304
Whybridge Infant SchoolPrimaryCommunity school269
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Rainham (London) Rail StationRail0.9 km
Elm Park Underground StationMetro or underground2.8 km
Dagenham East Underground StationMetro or underground2.8 km
Dagenham EastTram2.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Lake Avenue, Rainham compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lake Avenue, Rainham sits above that national figure — +46.3%.

Within Rainham the street ranks 89 of 264 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £200,000 (+15.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,416 per square metre, across 32 of the 148 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 £38,000 to £750,000. 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.

Lake Avenue, Rainham sits in Havering, in London.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Havering at 11.0 times median local earnings of £41,054 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Rainham house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Lake Avenue, Rainham?

The median price paid in Lake Avenue, Rainham across every sale on the register is £230,500. 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 Lake Avenue, Rainham?

148 sales are on record for Lake Avenue, Rainham, the most recent completing on 2 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lake Avenue, Rainham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +110.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +52.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lake Avenue, Rainham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £525,000, 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 Lake Avenue, Rainham?

£2,416 per square metre, from the 32 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 2 Sep 2025. 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, “Lake Avenue, Rainham 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.