The median home in Chigwell Row sells for £525,000
That is the middle of 72 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A quarter of Chigwell Row’s sales are semi-detached houses
72 homes sold in three years: 14 detached houses, 20 semi-detached houses, 20 terraced houses and 18 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.1 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£982K
median sale · 14 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£740K–£1.3M
Last 12 months
£863K5 sold
Semi-detached houses£618K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£570K–£638K
Last 12 months
£625K7 sold
Terraced houses£485K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£448K–£533K
Last 12 months
£500K7 sold
Flats and maisonettes£320K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£305K–£345K
Last 12 months
£320K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 28% of sales
Detached houses19%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses28%
Flats and maisonettes25%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Chigwell Row’s homes sold for between £360K and £640K
One sale in ten was under £308K and one in ten over £863K. 1% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £525,000, sits in the £500–750K band
72 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £92,250 in 1995 to £551,250 in the last 12 months (£510,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
24 sales in the last 12 months, against 74 in 2004, the busiest year, and 16 in 2009. Sales fell by 69% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 12%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 29% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Chigwell Row costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Chigwell Row, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£167K
£361K
£393K
£451K
£618K
—
£863K
Semi-detached houses
£89K
—
£288K
£380K
£390K
£575K
£625K
Terraced houses
£85K
£150K
£250K
£280K
£340K
£450K
£500K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£85K
£95K
—
—
—
£320K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
69 new homes have been sold in Chigwell Row since 1995; the share peaked at 38% in 2004.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
26% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.9% sold leasehold in Chigwell Row. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Lambourne Road is Chigwell Row’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Lambourne Road
IG7
12
£530,000
Mixed
2
Retreat Way
IG7
12
£320,000
Mostly flats
3
Sunnymede
IG7
7
£345,000
Mostly flats
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Chigwell Row
What is the average house price in Chigwell Row?
The median home in Chigwell Row sold for £525,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 72 standard sales (£551,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £981,500, semi-detached houses £618,000, terraced houses £485,000 and flats and maisonettes £320,000.
Are house prices going up in Chigwell Row?
The median was £517,500 in 2025, up 12% on 2024 (£462,500), and £551,250 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Chigwell Row each year?
24 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 29 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: John Winfield · CC BY-SA 2.0