How many properties are being sold in Essex? 18,752
HM Land Registry has recorded 18,752 home sales in Essex for the 12 months to September 2026 so far. This will rise as late sales are registered.
- Data up to
- September 2026
Sales registered with HM Land Registry. Recent months stay incomplete for up to a year, so we don't compare them with earlier years. How we calculate this
All house prices in EssexHow many homes have sold in Essex each year?
24,938 homes sold in Essex in 2025, the latest full year.
| Year | Homes sold |
|---|---|
| 2026 (to September) | 12,187 |
| 2025 | 24,938 |
| 2024 | 21,980 |
| 2023 | 20,419 |
| 2022 | 27,852 |
| 2021 | 34,823 |
| 2020 | 23,043 |
| 2019 | 25,131 |
| 2018 | 26,029 |
| 2017 | 26,715 |
How have monthly sales in Essex changed over time?
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What else do people ask about Essex?
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Where does this data come from?
Price information is from HM Land Registry, location boundaries are from OpenStreetMap, and households and population are from Nomis Census 2021 postcode estimates (21 March 2021). Parks and green space are from OS Open Greenspace. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Crime is from police.uk street-level data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: police.uk.
Last updated 6 November 2026 at 00:10 with the latest Land Registry data (September 2026). The Essex dataset covers 56,414 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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