That is the middle of 99 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 12.6 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.
99 homes sold in three years: 58 detached houses, 23 semi-detached houses, 1 terraced houses and 17 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£505K
median sale · 58 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£450K–£640K
Last 12 months
£500K19 sold
New build
£515K
Semi-detached houses£340K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£308K–£410K
Last 12 months
£340K10 sold
Flats and maisonettes£158K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£140K–£180K
Last 12 months
£183K5 sold
Fewer sales
Terraced houses: 1 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 59% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses59%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses1%
Flats and maisonettes17%
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 Copford’s homes sold for between £308K and £543K
One sale in ten was under £168K and one in ten over £655K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £440,000, sits in the £400–500K band
99 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 12.6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £34,500 in 1995 to £435,000 in the last 12 months (£295,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
35 sales in the last 12 months, against 87 in 2000, the busiest year, and 14 in 2008. Sales fell by 66% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Copford costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Copford, 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
£128K
£165K
£295K
£315K
£435K
£480K
£500K
Semi-detached houses
—
£105K
£213K
£258K
£315K
£318K
£340K
Flats and maisonettes
£32K
£46K
£109K
£85K
£113K
£153K
£183K
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
17% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
118 new homes have been sold in Copford since 1995; the share peaked at 52% in 2025.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £500,000
against £384,625 for a home sold on, 30% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Copford. 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
London Road is Copford’s busiest street, with 21 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 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
London Road
CO6
21
£300,000
Mixed
2
Pits Road
CO6
13
£515,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
3
Keepers Way
CO6
11
£520,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
4
Point Chase
CO6
7
£210,000
Mostly flats
5
School Road
CO6
5
£675,000
Mostly detached houses
6
North Lane
CO6
5
£460,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Brewers Walk
CO6
5
£385,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
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.
Copford’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Colchester, Berechurch and Coggeshall.
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 Copford
What is the average house price in Copford?
The median home in Copford sold for £440,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 99 standard sales (£435,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £505,000, semi-detached houses £340,000 and flats and maisonettes £157,500.
Are house prices going up in Copford?
The median was £450,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£440,000), and £435,000 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 Copford each year?
35 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 39 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Copford?
New homes sold for a median £500,000 over three years, against £384,625 for homes sold on. New builds were 29% of sales.
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.