That is the middle of 545 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 6.2 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.
545 homes sold in three years: 239 detached houses, 216 semi-detached houses, 64 terraced houses and 26 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£452K
median sale · 239 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£387K–£520K
Last 12 months
£475K53 sold
New build
£488K
Semi-detached houses£345K
median sale · 216 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£372K
Last 12 months
£350K53 sold
New build
£365K
Terraced houses£296K
median sale · 64 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£325K
Last 12 months
£298K22 sold
New build
£356K
Flats and maisonettes£174K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£140K–£185K
Last 12 months
£172K9 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 44% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses44%
Semi-detached houses40%
Terraced houses12%
Flats and maisonettes5%
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 Tiptree’s homes sold for between £315K and £450K
One sale in ten was under £270K and one in ten over £525K. 6% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £365,000, sits in the £300–400K band
545 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £57,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in the last 12 months (£315,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
137 sales in the last 12 months, against 343 in 2002, the busiest year, and 92 in 2008. Sales fell by 40% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 14%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 42% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Tiptree costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Tiptree, 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
£84K
£132K
£250K
£250K
£310K
£418K
£475K
Semi-detached houses
£56K
£93K
£173K
£185K
£230K
£298K
£350K
Terraced houses
£49K
£84K
£152K
£160K
£195K
£265K
£298K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£65K
£127K
£121K
£145K
£162K
£172K
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
4% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
1,054 new homes have been sold in Tiptree since 1995; the share peaked at 45% 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
A new home sold for a median £450,000
against £352,500 for a home sold on, 28% 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.
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.4% sold leasehold in Tiptree. 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
Elizabeth Drive is Tiptree’s busiest street, with 33 sales in three years
33 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
Elizabeth Drive
CO5
33
£450,000
Mixed · new builds
2
Meadowsweet Way
CO5
21
£384,750
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
3
Rectory Road
CO5
18
£178,000
Mostly flats
4
Ager Avenue
CO5
16
£481,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
Wilkin Drive
CO5
15
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
6
Anchor Road
CO5
15
£370,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Chapel Road
CO5
15
£352,000
Mixed
8
Green Lane
CO5
14
£336,000
Mixed
9
Holgate Lane
CO5
13
£500,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
10
Maldon Road
CO5
13
£425,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Honey Lane
CO5
13
£395,000
Mixed
12
Station Road
CO5
13
£365,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Heycroft Way
CO5
12
£305,000
Mixed
14
Oak Road
CO5
11
£395,000
Mixed
15
Rosemary Crescent
CO5
9
£380,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Newbridge Road: £533,750
Tiptree median£365K
Newbridge Road£534K
Holgate Lane£500K
Ager Avenue£481K
Elizabeth Drive£450K
Kiltie Road£440K
Cheapest streets
Rectory Road: £178,000
Tiptree median£365K
Rectory Road£178K
Bedford Close£284K
Chestnut Way£293K
Walnut Tree Way£295K
Heycroft Way£305K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3 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
Tiptree is the 46th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Tiptree 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 Tiptree
What is the average house price in Tiptree?
The median home in Tiptree sold for £365,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 545 standard sales (£355,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £451,550, semi-detached houses £345,000, terraced houses £296,250 and flats and maisonettes £173,750.
Are house prices going up in Tiptree?
The median was £365,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£365,000), and £355,000 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 Tiptree each year?
137 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 181 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Tiptree?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Newbridge Road (CO5, £533,750), Holgate Lane (CO5, £500,000) and Ager Avenue (CO5, £481,000).
How much does a new build cost in Tiptree?
New homes sold for a median £450,000 over three years, against £352,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 18% of sales.
Is Tiptree expensive for Essex?
Tiptree is the 46th 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.
Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0