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Southend-on-Sea market report SS1 2, Southend-On-Sea
The standing SS1 2 (Southend-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 9,356 registered sales in SS1 2 (Southend-On-Sea) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SS1 2 (Southend-On-Sea) home changed hands for £279,000 in 2026 (median of 58 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier), with the mean at £309,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,570 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,356 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SS1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SS1 (Southend-On-Sea). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SS1 2 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.
Today's SS1 2 prices, from the sold record
The SS1 2 median stands at £279,000 for 2026, built from 58 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £309,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SS1 2
The last five years of sales put SS1 2 at roughly £3,570 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 2 runs 2% below it.
SS1 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £279,000 | £279,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 149 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 133 |
| 2023 | £238,200 | £261,724 | 132 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 244 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 260 |
| 2020 | £230,800 | £299,468 | 156 |
| 2019 | £214,200 | £280,765 | 198 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 227 |
| 2017 | £193,000 | £263,233 | 231 |
| 2016 | £173,000 | £242,029 | 371 |
| 2015 | £163,100 | £230,460 | 266 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 250 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 211 |
| 2012 | £141,000 | £207,534 | 176 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 156 |
| 2010 | £146,000 | £228,966 | 173 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 159 |
| 2008 | £136,500 | £223,752 | 237 |
| 2007 | £145,000 | £245,960 | 452 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 571 |
| 2005 | £138,000 | £245,584 | 462 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 500 |
| 2003 | £87,000 | £160,275 | 449 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 484 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 475 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 404 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 432 |
| 1998 | £46,500 | £93,864 | 360 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 347 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 331 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 302 |
In cash terms the typical SS1 2 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £279,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 267%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SS1 2 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 2004 (+37.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.3% | +4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in SS1 2
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 58 sales completed in SS1 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 475 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market SS1 2 is
This is a thin market: 58 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around SS1 2
The local authority for SS1 2 is Southend-on-Sea, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,287 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £865 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,839 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Southend-on-Sea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, which against the £279,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about SS1 2 (Southend-on-Sea)
Is SS1 2 (Southend-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
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Are SS1 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SS1 right now
The live side of the market holds 67 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS1 district, not just SS1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SS1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: SS prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the SS area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
SS area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SS1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SS1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS1 1 | £195,000 | 24 |
| 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 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS1 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SS1 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SS1 2 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.