The average Brentwood home fell to £513,537 in June, a 2.8% drop in a month and the steepest fall of any Essex district. Detached homes took most of it.
The average home sold in Brentwood borough in June 2026 fetched £513,537, down £14,753 on May and down £8,132 on June 2025. The figures were published this morning by HM Land Registry in the UK House Price Index for June 2026.
That is a fall of 2.8% in a single month. It is the steepest monthly drop of any of the 14 districts and unitary authorities in the Essex county area, and more than three times the next largest. Brentwood also posts the steepest annual fall of the 14, at -1.6%.
It is a sharp turn. In the May figures, as they stand after today’s revisions, Brentwood was still up 1.5% over the year.
Every Essex district, ranked
| District | Average price | Year | Month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochford | £415,574 | +6.2% | +1.2% |
| Epping Forest | £536,765 | +4.9% | -0.6% |
| Southend-on-Sea | £325,586 | +3.7% | -0.8% |
| Uttlesford | £482,652 | +3.5% | +0.3% |
| Tendring | £261,717 | +2.6% | +1.0% |
| Thurrock | £327,176 | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| Braintree | £330,637 | +2.0% | +2.6% |
| Harlow | £313,338 | +1.7% | +0.8% |
| Maldon | £384,348 | +0.4% | -0.4% |
| Colchester | £298,003 | -0.3% | -0.1% |
| Basildon | £360,294 | -1.0% | +0.8% |
| Castle Point | £362,602 | -1.1% | -0.9% |
| Chelmsford | £383,103 | -1.2% | +0.3% |
| Brentwood | £513,537 | -1.6% | -2.8% |
Source: UK House Price Index, June 2026.
Brentwood is still the second most expensive place to buy in the county. Only Epping Forest is dearer, at £536,765, and Epping Forest is going the other way with a 4.9% annual rise. The gap between the two has closed to £23,228.
The wider picture is calmer than Brentwood’s. Essex as a whole averaged £361,268 in June, up 1.2% on the year. The East of England averaged £338,707, up 1.1%. England averaged £293,262, up 1.8%.
Where the fall landed
The drop is not spread evenly across the market. Detached houses and flats took most of it, while terraced houses and semis barely moved.
| Type | Average price | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £979,724 | -2.3% |
| Semi-detached | £547,154 | -0.8% |
| Terraced | £428,473 | -0.4% |
| Flat or maisonette | £264,471 | -2.4% |
A first-time buyer in Brentwood paid an average of £369,662 in June, down 1.2% on the year. A mover paid £677,883, down 1.8%.
Three things to hold in mind
The index is useful, and it is also easy to over-read. Three caveats matter here, and they all point the same way: treat one month as one month.
- This is a mean, not a median. A handful of expensive sales pulls the Brentwood figure up, and their absence pulls it down. The borough’s detached average of £979,724 shows how much weight the top of the market carries.
- The June figure is provisional and will be revised. The May average stood at £530,088 as recently as 15 August. Today’s release revises it to £528,290, a cut of £1,798 on a figure that had already been published once.
- Brentwood is a small market. The Land Registry recorded 67 completed sales in the borough in February, 73 in March and 51 in April, the most recent month with a published count. At that size, a quiet month for large detached sales moves the average on its own.
What it means for you
If you are buying, the June figure is not yet a reason to expect a discount. One provisional month in a market of roughly 60 sales is a wobble, not a trend, and the annual fall of 1.6% is small against a £513,537 average.
If you are selling a detached house, the number worth watching is the 2.3% annual fall in that segment, because it is where the borough’s decline is concentrated. Terraced and semi-detached sellers are close to flat on the year.
If you are a first-time buyer, £369,662 is still £124,212 above the England first-time buyer average of £245,450. Brentwood remains an expensive borough whichever way the monthly line moves.
The next UK House Price Index, covering July 2026, is published at 09:30 on Wednesday 16 September 2026. Our Brentwood house prices page carries the fuller breakdown by type and buyer, and our Brentwood planning news page tracks what is being built in the borough.
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