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Southend-on-Sea market report SS1 1, Southend-On-Sea
The SS1 1 (Southend-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,815 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SS1 1 (Southend-On-Sea) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS1 1 (Southend-On-Sea) came in at £195,000, out of 24 registered, down 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £246,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,240 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,815 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SS1 1 is a single group of streets within SS1 (Southend-On-Sea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SS1 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
SS1 1 sold prices: where the market stands
In the SS1 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £195,000, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £246,600, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in SS1 1
The last five years of sales put SS1 1 at roughly £4,240 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SS1 1 runs 32% below it.
SS1 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £226,100 | £231,507 | 50 |
| 2024 | £237,500 | £252,511 | 35 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 42 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 109 |
| 2021 | £202,000 | £255,758 | 72 |
| 2020 | £223,800 | £290,385 | 42 |
| 2019 | £218,000 | £285,746 | 55 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 65 |
| 2017 | £181,500 | £247,548 | 69 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 98 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 94 |
| 2014 | £167,500 | £237,628 | 69 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 51 |
| 2012 | £157,400 | £231,673 | 47 |
| 2011 | £142,500 | £215,120 | 52 |
| 2010 | £152,500 | £239,159 | 52 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 53 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 71 |
| 2007 | £162,000 | £274,797 | 125 |
| 2006 | £132,500 | £230,003 | 149 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 119 |
| 2004 | £130,900 | £237,740 | 131 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 136 |
| 2002 | £82,000 | £154,282 | 144 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 148 |
| 2000 | £64,500 | £126,581 | 132 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 124 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 113 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 121 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 101 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical SS1 1 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 42% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SS1 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2022 (+41.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−19.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.8% | −15.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SS1 1 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around SS1 1
The local authority for SS1 1 is Southend-on-Sea, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,287 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £865 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,839, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Southend-on-Sea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £195,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,287 a month (£15,444 a year) works out at a 7.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the SS1 1 market
This is a thin market: 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within SS1, this sector trades 32% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about SS1 1 (Southend-on-Sea)
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What happens to SS1 1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in SS1 now
Turning to what is actually available: 67 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS1 district, not just SS1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SS1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in SS: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SS area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £368,000 | £505,000 (+37%) | £699,995 (+39%) | £925,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £316,250 | £359,999 (+14%) | £405,000 (+13%) | £501,250 (+24%) | £705,000 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £285,000 | £320,000 (+12%) | £345,000 (+8%) | £435,000 (+26%) | £615,000 (+41%) |
| Flat | £190,000 | £245,000 (+29%) | £340,000 (+39%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SS area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SS1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SS1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS1 2 | £279,000 | 58 |
| SS1 3 | £492,500 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full SS1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SS1 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SS1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SS1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SS1 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SS1 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SS1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SS1 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.