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242, Straight Road, Colchester appears in the public record as a freehold house sitting on a 332 m2 plot.
By comparing it to nearby properties, we estimate it to be an early-century house with 1,191 ft2 of internal area and a garden.
Locally, houses of this size normally have 4 bedrooms.
Our estimate of the sale value of 242, Straight Road, Colchester is £442,308 and its rental estimate is £2,005 per month, given the available information and assuming reasonable condition.
Straight Road, Colchester, CO3 falls within the CO3 postal district, in the borough of Colchester.
242, Straight Road, Colchester has 21 entries in the Land Registry , most recently in July 2010 and no records in the EPC database.
We combine this sold price information with public data of neighbouring properties to estimate the attributes and values.
The local information is scored as 2 out of 5 and is considered of medium accuracy.
The condition of a property plays an important role in determining its value, with the degree of impact varying by property type, size and location.
For 242, Straight Road, Colchester, we estimate a market value of £464,424 and a rental value of £2,105 per month when presented in very good decorative order. Should the property require extensive cosmetic improvement, those figures would reduce to £411,347 and £1,865 per month respectively.
Over the last year, 242, Straight Road, Colchester has seen its estimated sale value decrease by £4,204 (1.0%) and its estimated rental value grow by £43 per month (2.1%). This results in an estimated gross rental yield of 5.4%.
HM Land Registry records the plot of land for 242, Straight Road, Colchester as measuring 332 m2.
That makes it the 15th largest plot in the postcode, where 18 of the 22 other houses have recorded plot data.
The most recent sale of 242, Straight Road, Colchester completed on 9th July 2010 at £250,000 and was recorded by HM Land Registry as a freehold house.
Since 1995 the property has sold twice.
Values of comparable properties have risen by 80.8% over the period since July 2010.
Over the past 2 years 3 properties similar to 242, Straight Road, Colchester have sold within a radius of 610 metres, per the Land Registry and our network of Estate Agents.
The latest, on the 25th March 2025, was 98, King Harold Road, Colchester, CO3 4SG, a freehold house which sold for £430,000.
Read more about house prices in CO3.
•Nearby is defined as the radius comprising the nearest 2,000 addresses.
Of the 305 addresses on Straight Road, Colchester, CO3, 242, Straight Road, Colchester comes out as the 130th largest and the 119th most expensive in our analysis of the public data.
It is also £65k more expensive than the average property across the CO3 district.
From 242, Straight Road, Colchester, the nearest station is Colchester Town, 3.4 kilometres away.
Broadband here reaches superfast speeds, based on recent Ofcom data.
According to recent data from Ofcom, Superfast broadband is available in the area.
The flood risk here is rated very low, based on Environment Agency data.
The recent census recorded whether a resident owned or rented their home.
In the area around 242, Straight Road, Colchester, 51.2% of property is privately owned outright and 37.2% is privately owned with a mortgage.
The graph below shows how this compares to East of England and the rest of England & Wales.
The recent census recorded the highest level of education achieved by residents in the local area.
In the area around 242, Straight Road, Colchester, 18.2% of residents are recorded as possessing school level qualifications and 27.5% as possessing degree level qualifications.
The graph below shows how this compares to East of England and the rest of England & Wales.
The most recent census in 2021 recorded the age of all UK residents.
In the area around 242, Straight Road, Colchester, the average age was 45.6 and the most common age was 52.
The graph below shows how this compares to East of England and the rest of England & Wales
The recent census recorded whether a property was a primary or secondary home for the resident.
In the area around 242, Straight Road, Colchester, 0.9% of property was a second home.
Comparison figures for East of England and the rest of England & Wales are listed below.
The recent census recorded the number of cars registered in each household.
In the area around 242, Straight Road, Colchester, there are an average of 1.6 cars per household.
See below for how this compares to East of England and the rest of England & Wales.
