A typical Romford home sold for about £450,000 over the past year, though very few buyers paid anything close to that. Flats went for just over £200,000. Semis went for well over half a million. Detached houses hardly came up for sale at all. The average lands between two kinds of buyer who are never likely to view the same house.
The Land Registry recorded 245 sales in the year to May 2026, at a typical price of £450,000. Flats and semi-detached houses made up 89 sales each, with flats at about £220,000 and semis at about £554,000. The 52 terraces fetched around £462,500, and the 15 detached houses about £700,000. The cheapest semi and the dearest flat are separated by a wide gap, and very little sells inside it.
The official house price index for the area put the average at about £453,000 in May 2026, up about 3% on a year earlier. That's a modest rise. Flats on their own were almost flat, down about 0.2% over the same twelve months. That's good news for a first-time buyer trying to get on the ladder, and less welcome for anyone who bought a flat near the station expecting the Elizabeth line to keep pushing the price up.
Band D is the most common council tax band in the area, and only about 17% of homes are in bands A or B. Havering charges about £2,425 a year for a band D home, and that's the figure to set against what you pay now. Romford was once a coaching town on the London to Colchester road, and its council tax is set at London rates.
The Office for National Statistics puts the typical private rent at about £1,560 a month across Havering, Romford included, as of April 2026, up about 5% on the year. That figure is a mean from the official rent index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, a one-bedroom home averages about £1,220 a month, two bedrooms about £1,540, three bedrooms about £1,850 and four or more about £2,500. No reliable figures exist for studios or rooms, so any number you see for those is a guess.
Average gross household income in the area was about £71,000 in the financial year to March 2023, a figure the Office for National Statistics modelled before tax, and it is now a few years old. A household on that income can realistically reach a flat. A £554,000 semi is a much bigger stretch, and it gets bigger once you allow for tax, since gross income is the number people quote and net income is what pays the mortgage.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 71% of them, the median price was about £5,040 per square metre, with a typical floor area of about 95 square metres. The remaining sales could not be measured this way, and they skew towards whatever hasn't changed hands or been certificated recently. On any flat, check how many years are left on the lease, because a short lease takes more off the asking price than any floor area adds.
At the 2021 census, about 38% of households had three bedrooms, about 29% had two, about 16% had one and about 17% had four or more. Romford, then, is mostly three-bedroom family houses with a good share of flats around them. That explains why a single average price covers sales so far apart.
Romford's prices are middling for what you get. Buyers after a flat will find them manageable, and families who need a semi will find them stiff.