Rookery Close, Saffron Walden house prices are built from 65 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 15 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £184,000.
Median price paid
£184,000
HM Land Registry65 salesLatest sale 15 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Rookery Close, Saffron Walden prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Rookery Close, Saffron Walden to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 15 Aug 2025 | Detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 24 | 21 Aug 2024 | Detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 38 | 23 Oct 2023 | Detached | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 22 | 26 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £387,000 | £448,373 |
| 17 | 26 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £269,000 | £311,660 |
| 16 | 6 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 24 | 21 May 2021 | Detached | £303,700 | £383,707 |
| 14 | 27 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £365,000 | £472,590 |
| 30 | 2 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £280,000 | £362,534 |
| 26 | 2 Mar 2020 | Semi-detached | £279,000 | £361,240 |
| 11 | 28 Nov 2019 | Detached | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 7 | 9 Jun 2017 | Detached | £378,000 | £514,459 |
| 17 | 16 Sep 2016 | Semi-detached | £223,000 | £311,317 |
| 16 | 6 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £325,000 | £453,713 |
| 32 | 29 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £293,000 | £409,040 |
| 14 | 9 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £320,000 | £451,200 |
| 22 | 24 Apr 2015 | Terraced | £258,000 | £363,780 |
| 36 | 23 May 2014 | Terraced | £220,000 | £315,565 |
| 30 | 7 Mar 2014 | Terraced | £215,000 | £308,393 |
| 12 | 20 Dec 2013 | Detached | £195,000 | £284,333 |
| 13 | 4 Dec 2013 | Terraced | £233,000 | £339,741 |
| 24 | 28 Mar 2012 | Detached | £187,000 | £279,311 |
| 38 | 6 Feb 2012 | Detached | £215,000 | £321,133 |
| 30 | 26 Jan 2012 | Terraced | £168,000 | £250,932 |
| 22 | 25 Oct 2011 | Terraced | £214,000 | £327,978 |
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 Rookery Close, Saffron Walden values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Rookery Close | £88,000 (1999) | £375,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 24 Rookery Close | £187,000 (2012) | £340,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 38 Rookery Close | £102,000 (2001) | £310,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 22 Rookery Close | £137,000 (2003) | £387,000 (2022) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 17 Rookery Close | £48,000 (1996) | £269,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.3% |
| 16 Rookery Close | £170,000 (2005) | £350,000 (2022) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 14 Rookery Close | £108,000 (2000) | £365,000 (2020) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 30 Rookery Close | £76,000 (1998) | £280,000 (2020) | +6.1% | +3.9% |
| 26 Rookery Close | £66,950 (1996) | £279,000 (2020) | +6.1% | +3.9% |
| 32 Rookery Close | £96,000 (2001) | £293,000 (2016) | +7.7% | +5.3% |
| 36 Rookery Close | £53,300 (1995) | £220,000 (2014) | +7.7% | +5.3% |
| 12 Rookery Close | £217,762 (2010) | £195,000 (2013) | -3.6% | -6.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rookery Close, Saffron Walden 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 | 30 | 46.2% | £184,000 | £53,300 – £387,000 |
| Detached | 21 | 32.3% | £187,000 | £88,000 – £378,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 21.5% | £161,500 | £48,000 – £279,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rookery Close, Saffron Walden
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 65 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 | 65 | 100.0% | £184,000 |
Section 09
How Rookery Close, Saffron Walden compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rookery Close, Saffron Walden sits above that national figure — +16.8%.
Within Saffron Walden the street ranks 397 of 471 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-26.4%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £48,000 to £387,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£350,000 median
- Walden Road£350,000 median
- Castle Street£229,000 median
- Church Street£227,250 median
- Ashdon Road£280,000 median
- Goddard Way£175,000 median
- Mill Lane£231,486 median
- Little Walden Road£274,000 median
- De Vigier Avenue£206,500 median
- St James Court£146,000 median
- Carnation Drive£82,500 median
- East Street£198,500 median
- De Bohun Court£168,950 median
- Pilgrim Close£184,500 median
- Shrublands£125,000 median
- Sweet Mead£182,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 14 Rookery Close6 sales
- 17 Rookery Close5 sales
- 30 Rookery Close5 sales
- 36 Rookery Close5 sales
- 15 Rookery Close5 sales
- 38 Rookery Close4 sales
- 22 Rookery Close4 sales
- 11 Rookery Close3 sales
- 24 Rookery Close3 sales
- 16 Rookery Close3 sales
- 26 Rookery Close3 sales
- 32 Rookery Close3 sales
- 13 Rookery Close3 sales
- 6 Rookery Close3 sales
- 3 Rookery Close3 sales
- 12 Rookery Close2 sales
Back to Saffron Walden house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rookery Close, Saffron Walden?
The median price paid in Rookery Close, Saffron Walden across every sale on the register is £184,000. 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 Rookery Close, Saffron Walden?
65 sales are on record for Rookery Close, Saffron Walden, the most recent completing on 15 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Rookery Close, Saffron Walden house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £185,000, set in 2005. 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 Rookery Close, Saffron Walden?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 15 Aug 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, “Rookery Close, Saffron Walden 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.