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Southend-on-Sea market report SS1 3, Southend-On-Sea
The SS1 3 (Southend-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,680 registered sales in SS1 3 (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: the middle 2026 sale in SS1 3 (Southend-On-Sea) came in at £492,500, out of 44 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £504,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,680 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 3 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 3 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 3 sold prices: where the market stands
The SS1 3 median stands at £492,500 for 2026, built from 44 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £504,400, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SS1 3
Per square metre, SS1 3 homes have averaged around £4,830 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS1 3 73% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SS1 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £492,500 | £492,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £618,000 | £632,778 | 147 |
| 2024 | £590,000 | £627,291 | 145 |
| 2023 | £605,000 | £664,747 | 100 |
| 2022 | £560,000 | £656,664 | 176 |
| 2021 | £544,000 | £688,774 | 212 |
| 2020 | £490,000 | £635,785 | 147 |
| 2019 | £515,000 | £675,042 | 133 |
| 2018 | £525,000 | £699,835 | 179 |
| 2017 | £493,000 | £672,403 | 165 |
| 2016 | £437,500 | £612,067 | 172 |
| 2015 | £377,500 | £533,408 | 196 |
| 2014 | £335,000 | £475,256 | 182 |
| 2013 | £317,500 | £456,851 | 160 |
| 2012 | £290,000 | £426,844 | 137 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 167 |
| 2010 | £326,200 | £511,566 | 162 |
| 2009 | £265,000 | £425,990 | 136 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 95 |
| 2007 | £315,000 | £534,328 | 227 |
| 2006 | £270,500 | £469,553 | 250 |
| 2005 | £261,000 | £464,475 | 156 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 191 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 235 |
| 2002 | £198,700 | £373,852 | 226 |
| 2001 | £163,000 | £313,359 | 229 |
| 2000 | £145,000 | £284,563 | 197 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 212 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 204 |
| 1997 | £96,200 | £197,287 | 258 |
| 1996 | £87,500 | £184,534 | 221 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical SS1 3 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £492,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SS1 3 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 2003 (+25.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.3% | −22.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in SS1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 214 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
The shape of the SS1 3 market
This is a thin market: 44 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. Within SS1, this sector trades 72% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around SS1 3
For renting purposes SS1 3 sits in Southend-on-Sea. The ONS average private rent there is £1,287 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £865 a month here against £1,839 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Southend-on-Sea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £492,500 median sold price, £1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about SS1 3 (Southend-on-Sea)
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Will SS1 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in SS1 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 67 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS1 district, not just SS1 3: 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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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SS prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SS area, 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SS area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SS1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SS1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS1 1 | £195,000 | 24 |
| SS1 2 | £279,000 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full SS1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SS1 3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SS1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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See every individual SS1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.