What is the median house price in CO6?

Homes in CO6 sold for a median £431,596 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 324 sales. Per square metre that is £4,030/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in CO6?

Homes to let in CO6 asked a median £1,508 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 177 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in CO6?

3.9% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 301 lets. -1.7% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in CO6?

2.8% of the homes in CO6 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 378 sales.

Postcode district

CO6 property market

Sold £4,030/m² · Median sold £431,596 (324 sales) · Index -1.6% y/y · Turnover 2.8% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is CO6?

Buildings: 10,382
Mixed-use buildings: 1.1%
HMO-shaped units: 3.0%

What does CO6 cost?

CO6: sold price per m² £4,030/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 324 sales). -1.6% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£4,030/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

324 sales

-1.6% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£431,596 12 months to Apr 2026

324 sales

-1.6% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.

Asking price

£431,439 12 months to Aug 2026

1,195 listings

-5.9% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £3,380/m² in Jul 2016 to £3,648/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £352,486 in Jul 2016 to £367,041 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £425,000 in Jan 2022 to £425,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £4,468/m² in Aug 2025 to £3,872/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 100% in Jan 2022 to 99% in Oct 2024.

Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.

ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices

Asking price index: 103.7 in Jan 2022 to 95.3 in Aug 2026.

What does CO6 earn?

CO6: asking rent £1,508 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 177 lets).

Asking rent

£1,508 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

177 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

3.9% 12 months to Aug 2026

301 lets

-1.7% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £1,800 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,310 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 3.0% in Jan 2022 to 3.5% in Aug 2026.

How does CO6 vary by home size?

Asking price in CO6 runs from £285,728 for 2 bedrooms to £923,763 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in CO6, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	Not published	—	—	—
2 bedrooms	£285,728	12 months to Aug 2026	+0.8% on the previous 12 months	247
3 bedrooms	£395,225	12 months to Aug 2026	-6.7% on the previous 12 months	400
4 bedrooms	£516,610	12 months to Aug 2026	-13% on the previous 12 months	351
5+ bedrooms	£923,763	12 months to Aug 2026	+3.1% on the previous 12 months	186

Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.

How liquid is CO6?

CO6: turnover 2.8% (12 months to Jan 2026, 378 sales). +3.3% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.8% 12 months to Jan 2026

378 sales

+3.3% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.

Completed sales

499 12 months to Jan 2026

499 sales

+23.2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.

Listings for sale

646 12 months to Jul 2026

646 listings

Who is active in CO6?

44 agents listed homes for sale in CO6; the three largest took 31% of the listings.

Agents active: 44
Top three agents’ share: 31%
New homes among listings: 11%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns CO6?

Corporate landlords hold 59% of the 670 units in CO6 whose freeholder is classified; 96% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords59% of classified · 397 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)38% of classified · 256 units
Housing associations1.9% of classified · 13 units
RMC0.6% of classified · 4 units

Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.

Where does CO6 rank?

CO6 ranks 2nd of 6 postcode districts in Colchester for sold price per m², at £4,030/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in Colchester