That is the middle of 634 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 6.3 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.
A third of Halstead’s sales are semi-detached houses
634 homes sold in three years: 170 detached houses, 213 semi-detached houses, 171 terraced houses and 80 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£419K
median sale · 170 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£380K–£500K
Last 12 months
£413K43 sold
New build
£420K
Semi-detached houses£315K
median sale · 213 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£350K
Last 12 months
£313K62 sold
New build
£349K
Terraced houses£265K
median sale · 171 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£233K–£298K
Last 12 months
£255K50 sold
Flats and maisonettes£153K
median sale · 80 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£115K–£195K
Last 12 months
£140K26 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses27%
Semi-detached houses34%
Terraced houses27%
Flats and maisonettes13%
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 Halstead’s homes sold for between £248K and £380K
One sale in ten was under £171K and one in ten over £470K. 25% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £310,000, sits in the £300–400K band
634 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £48,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in the last 12 months (£284,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
181 sales in the last 12 months, against 438 in 1999, the busiest year, and 154 in 2008. Sales fell by 45% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 50% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Halstead costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Halstead, 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
£88K
£126K
£233K
£240K
£283K
£376K
£413K
Semi-detached houses
£53K
£84K
£168K
£170K
£208K
£275K
£313K
Terraced houses
£44K
£68K
£134K
£151K
£175K
£231K
£255K
Flats and maisonettes
£33K
£48K
£100K
£110K
£113K
£146K
£140K
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
New builds have slowed: 1% of sales in the last 12 months, after 37% in 2019
1,377 new homes have been sold in Halstead since 1995; the share peaked at 37% in 2019.
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 £400,000
against £300,000 for a home sold on, 33% 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.
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.6% sold leasehold in Halstead. 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
Edwards Avenue is Halstead’s busiest street, with 23 sales in three years
42 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 14 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
Edwards Avenue
CO9
23
£398,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
Colchester Road
CO9
22
£353,750
Mixed
3
Hawthorn Close
CO9
16
£288,750
Mostly terraced houses
4
Kings Road
CO9
15
£270,000
Mixed
5
Nether Court
CO9
14
£282,500
Mixed
6
Chapel Hill
CO9
14
£277,500
Mixed
7
Beridge Road
CO9
13
£365,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Trinity Road
CO9
13
£225,000
Mixed
9
Rosemary Lane
CO9
13
£105,000
Mostly flats
10
Fiske Avenue
CO9
12
£337,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Reynolds Drive
CO9
11
£370,000
Mixed
12
Abels Road
CO9
11
£190,000
Mixed
13
White Horse Avenue
CO9
10
£341,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Parsonage Street
CO9
10
£259,500
Mixed
15
Jubilee Close
CO9
9
£400,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
Dearest streets
Hurrell Close: £497,500
Halstead median£310K
Hurrell Close£498K
Kestrel Rise£420K
Pretoria Road£419K
Jubilee Close£400K
Edwards Avenue£398K
Cheapest streets
Rosemary Lane: £105,000
Halstead median£310K
Rosemary Lane£105K
Harper Lane£126K
Roundacre£163K
Conies Road£190K
Colne Road£190K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.7 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
Halstead is the 72nd most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Halstead is one of Essex’s cheapest 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 Halstead
What is the average house price in Halstead?
The median home in Halstead sold for £310,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 634 standard sales (£300,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £418,747, semi-detached houses £315,000, terraced houses £265,000 and flats and maisonettes £152,500.
Are house prices going up in Halstead?
The median was £325,000 in 2025, up 7% on 2024 (£305,000), and £300,000 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 Halstead each year?
181 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 268 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Halstead?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Hurrell Close (CO9, £497,500), Kestrel Rise (CO9, £420,000) and Pretoria Road (CO9, £418,750).
How much does a new build cost in Halstead?
New homes sold for a median £400,000 over three years, against £300,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 7.6% of sales.
Is Halstead expensive for Essex?
Halstead is the 72nd 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.