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Southend-on-Sea market report SS1, Southend-On-Sea
The standing SS1 (Southend-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 17,851 registered sales in SS1 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for SS1 (Southend-On-Sea) is £286,600, from 126 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £365,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,160 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,851 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SS1 is a postcode district covering Southend-on-Sea, Thorpe Bay in Southend-On-Sea. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SS1 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.
What buyers actually paid in SS1
126 sales were registered in SS1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £286,600. The mean works out at £365,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in SS1
Per square metre, SS1 homes have averaged around £4,160 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SS1 1% above the country at large.
SS1'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 | £286,600 | £286,600 | 126 |
| 2025 | £365,200 | £373,933 | 346 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 313 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 274 |
| 2022 | £296,000 | £347,094 | 529 |
| 2021 | £308,000 | £389,968 | 544 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 345 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 386 |
| 2018 | £303,000 | £403,905 | 471 |
| 2017 | £265,500 | £362,115 | 465 |
| 2016 | £208,000 | £290,994 | 641 |
| 2015 | £206,800 | £292,208 | 556 |
| 2014 | £188,000 | £266,711 | 501 |
| 2013 | £192,800 | £277,420 | 422 |
| 2012 | £188,500 | £277,448 | 360 |
| 2011 | £192,000 | £289,846 | 375 |
| 2010 | £197,500 | £309,731 | 387 |
| 2009 | £178,800 | £287,423 | 348 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 403 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 804 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 970 |
| 2005 | £152,000 | £270,499 | 737 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 822 |
| 2003 | £117,200 | £215,911 | 820 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 854 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 852 |
| 2000 | £67,800 | £133,058 | 733 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 768 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 677 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 726 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 653 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 643 |
In cash terms the typical SS1 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £286,600 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SS1 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 (+30.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−21.5%). 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) | −21.5% | −23.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £655,000 against £200,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, SS1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £655,000 | 21 | 3,087 |
| Semi-detached | £493,200 | 22 | 3,121 |
| Terraced | £310,000 | 25 | 3,547 |
| Flats | £200,000 | 58 | 8,096 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 276 sales completed in SS1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 824 sales a year before the financial crisis and 318 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market SS1 is
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. SS1 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What homes rent for around SS1
For renting purposes SS1 sits in Southend-on-Sea. The ONS average private rent there is £1,287 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £286,600 median purchase price, a rent of £1,287 a month (£15,444 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
Common questions on SS1 (Southend-on-Sea)
Are property prices falling in SS1 (Southend-on-Sea)?
Is SS1 (Southend-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS1 (Southend-on-Sea)?
Where do SS1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in SS1 now
Everything above is what homes in SS1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 67 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 30% below the SS1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 →
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SS1 ranks 17 of 17 in the SS area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SS1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS1 1 | £195,000 | 24 |
| SS1 2 | £279,000 | 58 |
| SS1 3 | £492,500 | 44 |
How SS1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SS5 | £418,800 | +5% |
| SS6 | £415,000 | +6% |
| SS9 | £403,800 | +4% |
| SS7 | £398,000 | +10% |
| SS11 | £395,000 | +5% |
| SS12 | £375,000 | +9% |
| SS17 | £370,000 | +12% |
| SS4 | £360,000 | +9% |
| SS3 | £345,500 | +5% |
| SS16 | £340,000 | +3% |
| SS15 | £330,000 | +8% |
| SS8 | £328,500 | +17% |
| SS14 | £325,000 | +14% |
| SS0 | £322,500 | +13% |
| SS2 | £315,000 | +9% |
| SS13 | £300,000 | +11% |
| SS1 (this report) | £286,600 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in SS1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SS1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SS1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SS1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual SS1 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.