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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/east-of-england

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House prices in the East of England

Homes in the East of England sold for a median of £349,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 164,052 standard sales.

That makes the East of England the third most expensive of the nine English regions and Wales, 18% above the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£349,000164,052 standard sales
Middle half of prices£255,000 to £475,000
Change since 2016+36%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was St Albans, at £621,000, and the cheapest was Great Yarmouth, at £222,000. The dearest median is 2.8 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were Three Rivers and Hertsmere, and the next cheapest Norwich and Fenland.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

21 of the 45 council areas had a median above £349,000, the figure for the East of England as a whole. The most sales were in Central Bedfordshire (9,151), East Suffolk (7,161), Huntingdonshire (5,463), Colchester (5,158) and Tendring (5,004).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. St Albans3,861 sales£621,000£6,512−1%
  2. Three Rivers2,074 sales£550,000£5,786+3%
  3. Hertsmere2,212 sales£545,000£5,661+6%
  4. Epping Forest3,248 sales£515,000£5,456+2%
  5. Brentwood2,382 sales£500,000£5,573+1%
  6. Cambridge2,295 sales£490,000£5,9540%
  7. Uttlesford2,793 sales£465,000£4,527+3%
  8. Dacorum3,731 sales£450,000£5,245+2%
  9. East Hertfordshire4,347 sales£450,000£5,049−1%
  10. Welwyn Hatfield2,375 sales£435,000£4,936+1%
  11. Broxbourne2,393 sales£433,000£5,182+2%
  12. South Cambridgeshire4,213 sales£432,000£4,402+3%
  13. North Hertfordshire3,722 sales£425,000£5,086+1%
  14. Watford1,989 sales£420,000£5,3030%
  15. Chelmsford4,830 sales£408,500£4,579+2%
  16. Rochford2,596 sales£405,000£4,331+5%
  17. Maldon2,010 sales£390,000£4,468+4%
  18. Central Bedfordshire9,151 sales£367,500£4,221−1%
  19. Castle Point2,427 sales£365,000£4,195+4%
  20. Basildon4,591 sales£363,500£4,309+4%
  21. Thurrock3,690 sales£360,000£4,357+1%
  22. Bedford4,461 sales£349,000£3,868+4%
  23. Braintree4,495 sales£345,000£4,012+1%
  24. Southend-on-Sea4,479 sales£345,000£4,012+3%
  25. Stevenage1,790 sales£344,000£4,228+5%
  26. East Cambridgeshire2,370 sales£340,000£3,355−2%
  27. Harlow2,003 sales£335,000£4,027+4%
  28. Babergh2,751 sales£330,000£3,600+3%
  29. Colchester5,158 sales£325,000£3,807+2%
  30. Huntingdonshire5,463 sales£321,000£3,6420%
  31. Mid Suffolk3,560 sales£315,500£3,4810%
  32. Luton3,171 sales£315,000£3,941+3%
  33. Broadland4,301 sales£308,000£3,358+3%
  34. North Norfolk3,054 sales£300,000£3,433−3%
  35. South Norfolk4,224 sales£300,000£3,390−2%
  36. West Suffolk4,984 sales£290,000£3,459+1%
  37. East Suffolk7,161 sales£287,000£3,204+2%
  38. Tendring5,004 sales£285,000£3,316+2%
  39. King's Lynn and West Norfolk4,197 sales£270,000£2,885+2%
  40. Breckland4,188 sales£267,500£2,9410%
  41. Peterborough4,305 sales£245,000£2,868−2%
  42. Ipswich2,957 sales£240,000£3,008−2%
  43. Fenland2,952 sales£235,000£2,5430%
  44. Norwich3,429 sales£235,000£3,1150%
  45. Great Yarmouth2,665 sales£222,000£2,778+2%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in Hertsmere, up 6%, and fell most in North Norfolk, down 3%.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the East of England, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached52,843£466,000£355,000 to £640,000£3,933/m²from 2,219 sales
Semi-detached47,878£347,500£270,000 to £445,000£3,889/m²from 1,865 sales
Terraced41,000£310,000£233,000 to £390,000£3,919/m²from 1,423 sales
Flats and maisonettes22,331£215,000£159,000 to £280,000£3,808/m²from 684 sales

Detached houses and semi-detached houses sold in similar numbers in the East of England, at 32% and 29% of sales.

Leasehold is less common here: 15% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 36%, from £258,000 in 2016 to £350,000 in 2025, close to the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Tendring, up 49%, and least in Welwyn Hatfield, up 18%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Postcode areas in the East of England

About these figures

The 164,052 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the East of England by each home's postcode, and 6,191 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.