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Typical sold price, CO4
£308,000
250 real sales, 6 March 2026 to 25 August 2026. A rough cash guide is shown below, not a quote.
- Sales in sample
- 250
- Cash guide, 70%
- £216,000
- Cash guide, 85%
- £262,000
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on selling in University / Highwoods: steady sales, so price from the evidence
Roughly 44 homes a month change hands in University / Highwoods, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
To judge an offer, £170,000 to £460,500 is what most University / Highwoods buyers have actually paid, so check where your home would sit among the recent sales before choosing a number; buyers can compare homes at this pace but are not spoilt for choice.
Compare optionsA cash sale trades price for certainty, and at a steady pace like this the open market is also a sound route if you can wait; cash buyers typically offer 70–85% of market value, which on a typical £308,000 home is roughly £216,000 to £262,000 (a rough guide, not a quote), so hold any offer up against the sold prices.
Get certificates and warranties for work done to the home; the title documents; and sign-off for any alterations you have made in one folder early, and ask your conveyancer what the buyer’s side will want to see.
To see what a quicker sale would look like, ask a cash buyer to contact you; it costs you nothing and you do not have to accept.
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Key figures
University / Highwoods at a glance
Sourced figures for the district, each one dated.
Most sell between
£170,000 to £460,500
Middle 80% of 250 sales
Gross yield
4.7%
gross, before costs, illustrative
Average rent
£1,197 a month
Colchester, August 2026
Planning applications
664
Within 500 m of the centre
Local data
What University / Highwoods homes sell for
Real Land Registry sold prices for CO4, each chart with its table underneath.
Price by type
What each type sells for in CO4
Detached homes had the highest typical price in CO4 at £410,000, from 75 sales; flats came to £162,000.
- Detached30%
- Semi-detached29%
- Terraced24%
- Flats17%
See the figures
| Type | Typical (median) | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £410,000 | 75 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 71 |
| Terraced | £273,750 | 60 |
| Flats | £162,000 | 42 |
HM Land Registry, 6 March 2026 to 25 August 2026. Types with fewer than 10 sales are left out.
Rent by size
What Colchester homes rent for
Average private rent in Colchester was £1,197 a month in August 2026, a gross yield of 4.7% on the CO4 median price (gross, before costs, illustrative).
See the figures
1 bed £820, 2 bed £1,063, 3 bed £1,301, 4+ bed £1,796 a month. ONS source
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026. The rent covers the whole local area, not just CO4.
Planning activity near University / Highwoods
664 planning applications within 500 m of the CO4 district centre
That count covers every date PlanIt holds. The 20 most recent were received between 23 Nov 2024 and 8 May 2026, and 0 of them are still undecided.
Source: PlanIt (planit.org.uk), which gathers local council planning registers. Checked 21 July 2026. This is activity in the area, not at any one address, and coverage and council update speed vary.
View applicationsContains HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Student and family demand.
Whatever the reason you need to move on in University / Highwoods (Colchester), a cash sale can be quicker and simpler than the open market, though cash buyers usually offer below market value. Want to know what homes in University / Highwoods actually sell for first? See real Land Registry sold prices for CO4.
Rent: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026 (published 16 September 2026): the average monthly rent for all private rented homes in Colchester, up 2.1% on a year earlier. It covers the whole area, not just CO4. Official statistics in development. By size: 1 bed £820, 2 bed £1,063, 3 bed £1,301, 4+ bed £1,796.
Gross yield is 12 months of that average rent divided by the CO4 median sale price. It is gross, before costs such as void periods, agent and management fees, repairs, insurance, tax and mortgage interest, and illustrative only: the rent covers a whole local area and every property type, while the price is for CO4, so the two are not a like-for-like pair.
Price spread and sales volume are from HM Land Registry sold prices. Liquidity (sales volume) is a rough guide to how many homes change hands, not a forecast.
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What actually sold in CO4
Filter by property type and radius around the CO4 centre. Distances use each sale's postcode centroid, so they are approximate.
250 sales match · page 1 of 13
| Address | Price | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, LONGCROFT ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 3AR | £342,500 | 2026-08-25 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 71, TITUS WAY, COLCHESTERCO4 5GB | £390,000 | 2026-08-20 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 8, MISTLEY ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 6BY | £375,000 | 2026-08-19 | Detached | Freehold |
| 119, FOREST ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 3XG | £240,000 | 2026-08-18 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 34, BARNARDISTON ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 0DR | £278,000 | 2026-08-18 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 15, FERNLEA, COLCHESTERCO4 5UA | £304,000 | 2026-08-14 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 63, SPRINGHAM DRIVE, COLCHESTERCO4 5FN | £190,000 | 2026-08-14 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 65, GORING ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 0DA | £220,000 | 2026-08-14 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 3, WOODLANDS, COLCHESTERCO4 3JA | £815,000 | 2026-08-12 | Detached | Freehold |
| 23, SPINDLE STREET, COLCHESTERCO4 5WX | £387,500 | 2026-08-10 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 14, GOLDFINCH CLOSE, COLCHESTERCO4 3TY | £367,500 | 2026-08-06 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 20, ST AUSTELL ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 0LL | £270,500 | 2026-08-06 | Detached | Freehold |
| 15, LANGHAM PLACE, COLCHESTERCO4 9GB | £673,500 | 2026-08-05 | Detached | Freehold |
| 8, FELICIA LANE, COLCHESTERCO4 6EL | £382,500 | 2026-08-03 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 1, CITIUS PARADE, COLCHESTERCO4 5NS | £420,000 | 2026-08-03 | Terraced | Freehold |
| 25, THORNTON DRIVE, COLCHESTERCO4 5WB | £275,000 | 2026-07-31 | Terraced | Freehold |
| HIGH GABLES, STRAIGHT ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 5QN | £850,000 | 2026-07-31 | Detached | Freehold |
| BARTHOLOMEW COURT, MILE END ROAD, COLCHESTERCO4 5FQ | £425,000 | 2026-07-31 | Semi-detached | Freehold |
| 107, PROPELAIR WAY, COLCHESTERCO4 5YT | £192,500 | 2026-07-31 | Flat / maisonette | Leasehold |
| 4, JAMES MAYGER CHASE, COLCHESTERCO4 9AQ | £365,000 | 2026-07-31 | Detached | Freehold |
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