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North Benfleet market report SS12, Wickford
The standing SS12 (North Benfleet) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 13,045 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS12 (Wickford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS12 (Wickford) came in at £375,000, out of 157 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £397,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,710 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 13,045 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SS12 is the postcode district covering Wickford (south and west), North Benfleet in Wickford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SS12 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 prices, from the sold record
157 sales were registered in SS12 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £375,000. The mean works out at £397,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SS12
The last five years of sales put SS12 at roughly £4,710 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS12 32% above the national figure.
A typical SS12 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 157 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 296 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 254 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 235 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 307 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 424 |
| 2020 | £333,800 | £433,112 | 244 |
| 2019 | £304,500 | £399,127 | 274 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 299 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 346 |
| 2016 | £283,500 | £396,619 | 366 |
| 2015 | £236,000 | £333,468 | 389 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 405 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 297 |
| 2012 | £206,000 | £303,206 | 230 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 270 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 273 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 275 |
| 2008 | £207,000 | £339,317 | 219 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 525 |
| 2006 | £185,800 | £322,525 | 540 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 523 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 566 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 612 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 616 |
| 2001 | £118,000 | £226,849 | 650 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 623 |
| 1999 | £83,500 | £166,411 | 620 |
| 1998 | £81,500 | £164,514 | 735 |
| 1997 | £72,700 | £149,093 | 568 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 471 |
| 1995 | £62,800 | £136,518 | 436 |
In cash terms the typical SS12 home went from £62,800 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 175%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SS12 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 (+20.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.0% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £495,000 against £220,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, SS12
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 | £495,000 | 41 | 3,553 |
| Semi-detached | £377,500 | 73 | 4,661 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 32 | 3,542 |
| Flats | £220,000 | 11 | 1,289 |
How many homes change hands in SS12
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SS12 recorded 246 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 582 sales a year before the financial crisis and 250 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.
Rents around SS12
SS12 falls under Basildon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,410 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £972 a month here against £2,104 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Basildon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £375,000 median sold price, £1,410 a month is £16,920 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
SS12 (North Benfleet): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SS12 (North Benfleet)?
Are property prices falling in SS12 (North Benfleet)?
Is SS12 (North Benfleet) a good place to buy a house?
Are SS12 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
The SS12 sales calendar
Across the 1,516 sales completed in SS12 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.4% of the total) and April the quietest (6.7%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 122 | 8.0% |
| February | 111 | 7.3% |
| March | 173 | 11.4% |
| April | 102 | 6.7% |
| May | 103 | 6.8% |
| June | 163 | 10.8% |
| July | 106 | 7.0% |
| August | 151 | 10.0% |
| September | 155 | 10.2% |
| October | 109 | 7.2% |
| November | 111 | 7.3% |
| December | 110 | 7.3% |
The price of an extra bedroom in SS
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 | £310,000 | £395,000 (+27%) | £460,000 (+16%) | £570,000 (+24%) | £720,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | £350,000 (+11%) | £380,000 (+9%) | £435,000 (+14%) | £525,000 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £268,000 | £315,000 (+18%) | £328,000 (+4%) | £386,750 (+18%) | £443,000 (+15%) |
| Flat | £176,000 | £230,000 (+31%) | £270,000 (+17%) | £350,000 (+30%) | £420,000 (+20%) |
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
SS12 ranks 8 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 SS12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How SS12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SS5 | £420,000 | +5% |
| SS6 | £412,500 | +6% |
| SS9 | £401,200 | +3% |
| SS11 | £395,000 | +5% |
| SS7 | £390,000 | +8% |
| SS12 (this report) | £375,000 | +9% |
| SS17 | £373,000 | +13% |
| SS4 | £365,000 | +11% |
| SS3 | £350,000 | +7% |
| SS16 | £350,000 | +6% |
| SS15 | £330,000 | +8% |
| SS8 | £325,000 | +16% |
| SS14 | £325,000 | +14% |
| SS0 | £322,500 | +13% |
| SS1 | £321,200 | +4% |
| SS2 | £318,800 | +10% |
| SS13 | £300,000 | +11% |
Selling in SS12? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SS12, open the average prices map and zoom from the SS12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SS12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every SS12 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.