Havering fell 0.9% in July 2026 to £448,648, ending a run that peaked at £452,498 in June. Romford prices by type, the busiest band and the streets at both ends.
Every Romford street has two prices: the one in the agent’s window and the one a buyer actually paid. Only the second one is a fact, and HM Land Registry records it when each sale completes. This page reads those sold-price records plainly: the Romford average, the Havering borough picture, what each property type goes for, the streets at both extremes of the market, and the quiet headline underneath, which is that Havering is rising while London as a whole falls.
The quick answer
The average sold price for a home in Romford is £441,555, from HM Land Registry data compiled by PropertySolvers for the last rolling year across the RM postcode districts the town’s sales area covers. That is up £9,996 (2.17%) over twelve months and about £50,000 (11.87%) over five years: steady, unhurried growth.
Correction and update, 20 September 2026. Two things have changed since this page was written. HM Land Registry has revised June 2026 down, from the £456,759 and 3.9% annual rise we published to £452,498 and 3.0%, a cut of £4,261. June is still the borough’s all-time record month, so the headline holds, but the figures in it were wrong by the width of a small deposit. And July 2026 is now published, and it fell.
The official UK House Price Index puts the whole London Borough of Havering at £448,648 for July 2026, down 0.9% on the month and up 2.1% on the year. That is £3,850 below June’s revised record of £452,498, and it makes July the third highest month in a series that runs back to January 1995, behind June and May 2026.
Set it against London as a whole, at £550,037 in July and down 3.3% over twelve months (UK HPI), and the borough is still doing something the capital is not: Havering is up 2.1% on the year while London is down 3.3%, a gap of 5.4 percentage points. A monthly dip is not a turn.
For June, when Havering set its record, only Barking and Dagenham rose faster of the 33 boroughs: the full June figures and how each borough compares.
What actually moved in July
The fall was not spread evenly, and one type is doing something different from the rest.
| Type | July 2026 | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £841,116 | up 2.3% |
| Semi-detached | £540,897 | up 3.1% |
| Terraced | £435,382 | up 2.7% |
| Flats and maisonettes | £251,321 | down 0.7% |
Flats are the only Havering property type losing value, and July is the month they turned negative. In June they were still up 0.8% on the year. At £251,321 they are £6,637 below their March 2025 peak of £257,958, so a Romford flat bought at the top of that market is worth less now than it was seventeen months ago. Every house type is still rising.
A first-time buyer in Havering paid an average of £388,533 in July, down from £391,872 in June.
The quieter number: sales volumes
Land Registry’s latest complete month for sales is May 2026, at 161 sales across the whole borough. That is the lowest May in Havering since the lockdown May of 2020, which recorded 145, and it is down from 171 in May 2025 and 252 in May 2024.
Two cautions before reading anything into it. Volumes are the slowest part of the index to settle and are routinely revised upwards as late registrations come in, so 161 will probably rise. And any comparison with early 2025 is distorted by March 2025, when 631 sales completed in Havering as buyers rushed the stamp duty deadline: that month is more than double a normal March and it poisons every year-on-year volume comparison that crosses it.
What it means for you
If you are selling, the market is thinner than the price rise suggests: PropertySolvers counts 914 sales in the last rolling year, down 43% on the year before, homes take an average of 132 days to sell, and the typical gap between asking and sold price is £11,613 (about 2%) below asking. A realistic price from day one beats a hopeful one trimmed later. If you are buying, the busiest bracket is £414,000 to £506,000, with 244 sales in the year, so that is where competition sits; below £414,000 there is noticeably more room. If you are renting, Havering’s average private rent reached £1,563 a month in June 2026, up 2.7% on the year (ONS).
Prices by property type
The UK House Price Index breaks the borough down by type. These are the Havering figures for July 2026, the smallest geography the official index publishes:
- Detached houses: £841,116 (up 2.3% on the year), concentrated in Emerson Park, Gidea Park and Upminster.
- Semi-detached houses: £540,897 (up 3.1%), the strongest riser and the classic stock of Gidea Park, Hornchurch and Collier Row.
- Terraced houses: £435,382 (up 2.7%), the workhorse of central Romford, Rush Green and Harold Hill.
- Flats and maisonettes: £251,321 (down 0.7%), the entry point, including the new blocks around Romford town centre, and the only type worth less than a year ago.
A first-time buyer in Havering paid an average of £388,533 in July. All figures from the Havering UK HPI data for July 2026, read on 20 September 2026. Note that every one of these is lower than the May 2026 figures this page carried when it was written, partly because July is a softer month and partly because Land Registry revises its recent months.
Romford against its neighbours
Hornchurch averages £455,176 (up 1.68% on the year), a modest premium over Romford that reflects its larger stock of semis and detached homes around Emerson Park. Within the RM postcodes the Romford sales area covers, the most expensive street on the sold-price record is Harrow Drive in Hornchurch’s RM11, averaging £1,630,000 across its recorded sales, with Broadway in Gidea Park’s RM2 the priciest address labelled Romford at £1,313,333. At the other end, flats at Merritt House on Frazer Close (RM1) average £104,909 (PropertySolvers). The distance between those addresses, a few miles apart, is the whole local market in one line.
How Romford compares more widely
Romford’s £441,555 sits about £100,000 below the London average of £544,814, and both dwarf the England average of £292,095, up 2.3% in the same year (UK HPI). The direction of travel is the story: while inner London gives ground, Havering’s mix of houses with gardens, grammar-school-free but improving schools and the Elizabeth line run into the City keeps pulling buyers east. What gets built next, from Romford’s town-centre towers to Beam Park, is covered in our Havering planning news page.
For context, Rightmove’s Romford page shows an overall average of £434,513 for the last year, close to the PropertySolvers figure and described as similar to the previous year; small differences come down to which postcodes and months each source counts.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Romford?
£441,555, from HM Land Registry sold-price data for the last rolling year across the Romford sales area’s RM postcodes, compiled by PropertySolvers. The official UK House Price Index puts the wider borough of Havering at £452,798 for May 2026.
Are Romford house prices going up or down in 2026?
Up, gently. Romford rose 2.17% over the last rolling year and the Havering borough index was up 2.8% in the year to May 2026. London as a whole fell 3.7% over the same period, which makes Havering one of the capital’s strongest boroughs right now.
How much is a semi-detached house in Havering?
The borough average for a semi was £545,897 in May 2026, with detached houses at £846,421, terraces at £438,611 and flats at £254,880 (UK House Price Index).
What do first-time buyers pay in Havering?
An average of £392,230 (May 2026, UK House Price Index), which in practice usually means a flat or a smaller terrace. Flats are the one type not rising, down 0.2% on the year.
What is the most expensive street in the Romford area?
On the sold-price record, Harrow Drive (RM11, Hornchurch) averages £1,630,000; the priciest address labelled Romford is Broadway in Gidea Park (RM2) at £1,313,333 (PropertySolvers, Land Registry data). The premium corners are Gidea Park and Emerson Park.
Where can I check what a specific house sold for?
Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search any street free on the HM Land Registry Price Paid service, or browse the same data on Rightmove and Zoopla.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Havering (HM Land Registry) for the borough average and property-type and buyer-type figures, May 2026.
- ONS housing prices visualisation for Havering for the borough summary and average private rent.
- Romford house prices (PropertySolvers, HM Land Registry data) for the town average, annual and five-year change, sales volume, price bands, days to sell and street extremes.
- Hornchurch house prices (PropertySolvers) for the Hornchurch average.
- UK HPI, London and England for the regional comparators.
- Rightmove Romford sold prices for market context.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid search to check any individual address.
Figures are provisional and revised as more sales are registered; town, borough and regional figures cover different areas and time windows, as labelled. Always confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision. Last checked 8 August 2026.
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