A typical house in Tollesbury sells for about £320,000. Detached homes go for around £415,000. Terraces come in under £290,000. Prices barely moved over the past year. You get the estuary for free, but heating the house will cost you.
The Land Registry recorded 24 sales in Tollesbury in the year to February 2026, with a median price of about £320,000. Semis, the commonest sale, went for a median of about £319,000 across nine sales. Seven detached houses had a median of about £415,000, and six terraces about £286,000. With that few sales, the medians come from a handful of real houses, so one unusual sale in either direction could change them.
The house price index for the wider area shows prices up 1.5% in the twelve months to May 2026, with the average at about £385,000. Flats went the other way, down 2.3% over the same period. Neither change is large, and they describe last year's sales, so they tell you nothing certain about next year's.
Band C is the most common council tax band in Tollesbury, and about 32% of homes are in bands A or B. Maldon District Council's band D bill is about £2,328 a year, which gives you something to compare against what you pay now.
Rents across the Maldon district average about £1,150 a month as of April 2026, up about 8% on a year earlier. That is a district figure from the Office for National Statistics index and a mean, so it may not match what a cottage in the village actually lets for. By size, the district averages are about £805 a month for one bedroom, £1,044 for two, £1,258 for three and £1,931 for four or more. Studio and room rents are not published. With so few homes in the village rented, anyone hoping to let one here is relying on the district average and on luck.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income for the area at about £59,000 before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Against a typical price of about £320,000, that puts a terrace or a smaller semi within reach of a household earning around that figure with a decent deposit. A detached house is a stretch on one income, and the income figure is now three years old while prices have moved since.
Among the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 92% of the total, the median price was about £3,400 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure has about 90 square metres of floor space. Heating is what catches buyers out here. Only about 6% of homes in the village are on mains gas, so ask the seller how the house is heated and what the last year of oil or electricity bills came to. The particulars will mention the beams and the inglenook before they say anything about the heating.
The 2021 census shows the bedroom mix: about 41% of homes have three bedrooms, 29% two, 25% four or more and 5% one. A first-time buyer hoping for a one-bed flat will find very few of them, and will probably end up in a two-bed terrace.
Tollesbury is middling on cost: neither a bargain nor a stretch for buyers already priced for Essex. The asking prices are about what you would expect, but the heating bills can come as a surprise.