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North Benfleet market report SS12 9, Wickford
The SS12 9 (North Benfleet) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 9,058 HM Land Registry entries for SS12 9 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS12 9 (Wickford) came in at £358,500, out of 76 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £366,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,780 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,058 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SS12 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SS12 (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 SS12 9 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 9 prices, from the sold record
Across 76 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SS12 9 home went for £358,500. The mean is £366,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in SS12 9
Per square metre, SS12 9 homes have averaged around £4,780 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SS12 9 sits 26% above the national market.
A typical SS12 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £358,500 | £358,500 | 76 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 172 |
| 2024 | £348,000 | £369,995 | 157 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 132 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 184 |
| 2021 | £323,500 | £409,593 | 271 |
| 2020 | £315,200 | £408,979 | 136 |
| 2019 | £292,000 | £382,742 | 169 |
| 2018 | £296,000 | £394,574 | 188 |
| 2017 | £293,500 | £400,305 | 228 |
| 2016 | £276,000 | £386,127 | 212 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 271 |
| 2014 | £222,800 | £316,081 | 264 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 193 |
| 2012 | £201,000 | £295,847 | 153 |
| 2011 | £184,000 | £277,769 | 168 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 183 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 168 |
| 2008 | £194,500 | £318,827 | 144 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 364 |
| 2006 | £179,600 | £311,763 | 373 |
| 2005 | £168,000 | £298,972 | 381 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 430 |
| 2003 | £154,000 | £283,705 | 445 |
| 2002 | £134,100 | £252,308 | 456 |
| 2001 | £116,700 | £224,350 | 514 |
| 2000 | £96,500 | £189,381 | 503 |
| 1999 | £80,500 | £160,432 | 471 |
| 1998 | £80,200 | £161,889 | 571 |
| 1997 | £71,800 | £147,247 | 396 |
| 1996 | £66,700 | £140,667 | 364 |
| 1995 | £62,000 | £134,778 | 321 |
In cash terms the typical SS12 9 home went from £62,000 in 1995 to £358,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 166%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SS12 9 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 2016 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS12 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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 SS12 9
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 76 SS12 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 433 sales a year before the financial crisis and 144 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 tenants pay around SS12 9
SS12 9 falls under Basildon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,410 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £972 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,104, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Basildon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £358,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,410 a month (£16,920 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
SS12 9 (North Benfleet): the questions that come up
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Are SS12 9 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 SS12 now
The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS12 district, not just SS12 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in SS: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SS area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SS12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SS12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS12 0 | £420,000 | 55 |
Zoom out to the full SS12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SS12 9? 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 SS12 9'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.
Estate agents working SS12 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SS12 9.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual SS12 9 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.
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.