That is the middle of 1,300 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 7.3 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.
1,300 homes sold in three years: 140 detached houses, 438 semi-detached houses, 442 terraced houses and 280 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£510K
median sale · 140 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£450K–£625K
Last 12 months
£482K41 sold
Semi-detached houses£420K
median sale · 438 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£380K–£460K
Last 12 months
£420K130 sold
Terraced houses£335K
median sale · 442 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£373K
Last 12 months
£350K135 sold
Flats and maisonettes£197K
median sale · 280 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£165K–£229K
Last 12 months
£190K69 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses11%
Semi-detached houses34%
Terraced houses34%
Flats and maisonettes22%
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 Grays’s homes sold for between £270K and £435K
One sale in ten was under £190K and one in ten over £515K. 20% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £360,000, sits in the £300–400K band
1,300 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,997 in 1995 to £365,000 in the last 12 months (£290,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
375 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,209 in 2000, the busiest year, and 367 in 2009. Sales fell by 66% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 4%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 44% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Grays costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Grays, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£86K
£140K
£250K
£275K
£328K
£405K
£482K
Semi-detached houses
£60K
£100K
£200K
£213K
£275K
£350K
£420K
Terraced houses
£44K
£72K
£150K
£159K
£220K
£285K
£350K
Flats and maisonettes
£28K
£55K
£126K
£113K
£135K
£187K
£190K
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
2,048 new homes have been sold in Grays since 1995; the share peaked at 22% in 2000.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
22% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.5% sold leasehold in Grays. 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
Argent Street is Grays’s busiest street, with 54 sales in three years
104 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 27 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
Argent Street
RM17
54
£245,000
Mostly flats
2
Long Lane
RM16
36
£442,500
Mixed
3
Blackshots Lane
RM16
23
£455,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Rectory Road
RM17
23
£376,000
Mixed
5
Hogg Lane (RM17)
RM17
17
£215,000
Mostly flats
6
Crammavill Street
RM16
17
£170,000
Mostly flats
7
Woodside Close
RM16
16
£396,500
Mixed
8
Bankfoot
RM17
16
£353,750
Mostly terraced houses
9
Palmers Drive
RM17
16
£165,000
Mostly flats
10
Timber Court
RM17
14
£210,000
Mostly flats
11
Chadwell Road
RM17
13
£356,000
Mixed
12
Kent Road
RM17
12
£341,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
Rosedale Road
RM17
12
£322,500
Mostly terraced houses
14
Hathaway Road
RM17
12
£302,500
Mixed
15
Lodge Lane (RM17)
RM17
11
£521,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
King Edward Drive: £650,000
Grays median£360K
King Edward Drive£650K
Wood View (RM16)£600K
St Georges Avenue£583K
Ward Avenue£575K
Chestnut Avenue£573K
Cheapest streets
Queensgate Centre: £142,250
Grays median£360K
Queensgate Centre£142K
Conway Gardens£160K
Palmers Drive£165K
Lewes Close£165K
Crammavill Street£170K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.6 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of 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.
Across Essex
Grays is the 51st most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Grays is in the middle of Essex’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Grays
What is the average house price in Grays?
The median home in Grays sold for £360,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,300 standard sales (£365,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £510,000, semi-detached houses £420,000, terraced houses £335,000 and flats and maisonettes £196,500.
Are house prices going up in Grays?
The median was £360,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£355,000), and £365,000 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 Grays each year?
375 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 583 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Grays?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: King Edward Drive (RM16, £650,000), Wood View (RM16, £600,000) and St Georges Avenue (RM17, £582,500).
Is Grays expensive for Essex?
Grays is the 47th most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Essex by median sale price.
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.