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North Benfleet market report SS12 0, Wickford
The standing SS12 0 (North Benfleet) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,958 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SS12 0 (Wickford) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS12 0 (Wickford) came in at £420,000, out of 55 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £439,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,600 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,958 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SS12 0 is one sector of SS12 (Wickford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SS12 0 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 SS12 0 prices, from the sold record
Take the 55 registered 2026 sales in SS12 0 and the middle price, the median, is £420,000. The mean lands at £439,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SS12 0
By floor space, homes in SS12 0 have sold for about £4,600 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS12 0 47% above the national figure.
A typical SS12 0 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 121 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 97 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 103 |
| 2022 | £385,000 | £451,456 | 123 |
| 2021 | £377,500 | £477,964 | 153 |
| 2020 | £355,800 | £461,658 | 108 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 105 |
| 2018 | £322,500 | £429,899 | 111 |
| 2017 | £317,500 | £433,038 | 118 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 154 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 118 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 141 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 104 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 77 |
| 2011 | £204,100 | £308,113 | 102 |
| 2010 | £203,000 | £318,356 | 90 |
| 2009 | £168,000 | £270,061 | 107 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 75 |
| 2007 | £222,000 | £376,574 | 161 |
| 2006 | £206,000 | £357,590 | 167 |
| 2005 | £181,500 | £322,997 | 142 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 136 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 167 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 160 |
| 2001 | £123,000 | £236,461 | 136 |
| 2000 | £108,000 | £211,950 | 120 |
| 1999 | £87,000 | £173,386 | 149 |
| 1998 | £83,500 | £168,551 | 164 |
| 1997 | £74,200 | £152,169 | 172 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 107 |
| 1995 | £63,500 | £138,039 | 115 |
In cash terms the typical SS12 0 home went from £63,500 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 204%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SS12 0 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 2000 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS12 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.0% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 55 sales completed in SS12 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 149 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.
Rents around SS12 0
For renting purposes SS12 0 sits in Basildon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,410 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £972 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,104 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Basildon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,410 a month is £16,920 a year, which against the £420,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
The shape of the SS12 0 market
This is a thin market: 55 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. Against the SS12 district median, SS12 0 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about SS12 0 (North Benfleet)
Are property prices falling in SS12 0 (North Benfleet)?
Is SS12 0 (North Benfleet) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS12 0 (North Benfleet)?
Where do SS12 0 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in SS12 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 9 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS12 district, not just SS12 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Maitland Road, Wickford, Essex, SS12
- Cranfield Park Road, Wickford
- The Chase, Belmont Avenue, Wickford
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 SS12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SS
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SS area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 SS12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SS12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS12 9 | £358,500 | 76 |
Zoom out to the full SS12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SS12 0? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SS12 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS12 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS12 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SS12 0.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SS12 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SS12 0 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.