A typical home in Dagenham sells for about £385,000, and for that you mostly get a terraced house. Terraces make up most of what sells. Flats come in a long way below that. Semis are rare enough to be an event. It is a terraced-house town with prices to match, and the terraces set the price for everything else.
The Land Registry recorded 219 sales in Dagenham in the year to mid-May 2026, at a typical price of about £385,000. Of those, 161 were terraces, selling for about £395,000. The 30 flats went for about £237,500, and the 28 semi-detached houses for about £427,500. Dagenham sells terraces the way Ford once turned out Fiestas here, in volume and largely to one design.
Prices have barely moved. The official house price index for the area recorded a change of minus 0.2% in the twelve months to May 2026, putting the average at about £361,000. Flats did worse, at minus 3.4% over the same year. A fifth of a percent is a rounding error that sellers will call stability and buyers will call a soft market. For a flat, ask for the last sold price of the same block alongside the asking price, because a 3% slide over a year shows up there first.
Most homes in Dagenham are in council tax band C, and about 18% fall in bands A or B. Barking and Dagenham council charges about £2,199 a year for band D, the bill most people can hold up against their own. Here band D is a step above what most households pay.
For renters, the Office for National Statistics puts the typical private rent across Barking and Dagenham at about £1,690 a month as of April 2026, a mean for the whole borough, up about 6% on a year earlier. By size, a one-bedroom home averages about £1,370 a month, two bedrooms about £1,710, three about £1,884, and four or more about £2,506. Studio and room rents aren't published for the borough, so there are no figures here for either.
Household income in Dagenham is modelled at about £63,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area's neighbourhoods. Against a typical sale price of about £385,000, that puts a terrace within reach for a household with two earners and a decent deposit, and a long way off for anyone buying alone. That income figure is three years old, and prices have had time to move on since.
Among the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 91% of them, the median price is about £5,129 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure measures about 76 square metres, enough for a two- or three-bedroom terrace and not much more. The Becontree estate was built by the London County Council in the 1920s, and the square metres were measured out as tightly then as the prices are now.
The 2021 Census counted about 40% of Dagenham households in two-bedroom homes and about 39% in three-bedroom homes. One-bedroom homes make up about 12% and four or more bedrooms about 8%. A buyer who needs a fourth bedroom is shopping in a small corner of the market and will pay semi money to find one.
On price, Dagenham is above average. A terrace on a working estate costs a fair sum for outer London, and the flats have been getting cheaper.