Flooring & Tiles Across Essex

Seven towns, and the county reads differently at each end. At the estuary, large old houses cut into separate homes push the flat share past a third and private renting to the heaviest here. Inland, in Chelmsford and Colchester, detached houses reach near a third of the stock and are bought on a long horizon. Terraces and social tenancies fill the towns between.

Terraces lead the built stock in Basildon and Harlow, both with heavy social renting: one specification gets repeated across many homes, and a single room has to be patched without an obvious join. In Harlow and at the estuary, flats reach a quarter and beyond, and there the lease rather than the look sets the terms, asking a minimum impact rating of any hard covering.