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Shotgate market report SS11 7, Wickford
The SS11 7 (Shotgate) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,365 HM Land Registry entries for SS11 7 (Wickford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SS11 7 (Wickford) home changed hands for £395,000 in 2026 (median of 36 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £442,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,480 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,365 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SS11 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SS11 (Wickford). 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 SS11 7 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 SS11 7
The 2026 median for SS11 7 is £395,000, taken from 36 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £442,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
SS11 7 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SS11 7 sales average about £4,480 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SS11 7 39% above the country at large.
A typical SS11 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £427,500 | £437,723 | 156 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 143 |
| 2023 | £447,500 | £491,693 | 147 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 189 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 213 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 157 |
| 2019 | £392,000 | £513,818 | 167 |
| 2018 | £454,800 | £606,257 | 172 |
| 2017 | £371,500 | £506,689 | 158 |
| 2016 | £313,500 | £438,590 | 188 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 132 |
| 2014 | £267,500 | £379,495 | 180 |
| 2013 | £246,000 | £353,969 | 123 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 110 |
| 2011 | £223,000 | £336,644 | 84 |
| 2010 | £234,000 | £366,972 | 86 |
| 2009 | £205,500 | £330,343 | 66 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 53 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 151 |
| 2006 | £212,000 | £368,005 | 161 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 125 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 139 |
| 2003 | £175,800 | £323,866 | 128 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 148 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 144 |
| 2000 | £93,500 | £183,494 | 128 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 168 |
| 1998 | £79,500 | £160,476 | 146 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 140 |
| 1996 | £61,000 | £128,646 | 110 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical SS11 7 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 180%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 35% 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 SS11 7 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 2002 (+39.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−13.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS11 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.6% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SS11 7
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 36 SS11 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 134 sales a year recently, against 141 a year before 2008. 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 tenants pay around SS11 7
For renting purposes SS11 7 sits in Chelmsford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,063 a month here against £2,233 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Chelmsford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £395,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Reading the SS11 7 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SS11 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
SS11 7 (Shotgate): the questions that come up
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What happens to SS11 7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
What you could buy in SS11 now
The live side of the market holds 14 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS11 district, not just SS11 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 SS11 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SS area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SS11
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SS11, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS11 8 | £402,500 | 68 |
Zoom out to the full SS11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS11 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SS11 7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS11 7'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 SS11 7.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual SS11 7 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.