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Langdon Hills market report SS16 4, Basildon

The standing SS16 4 (Langdon Hills) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,114 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS16 4 (Basildon) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS16 4 (Basildon) came in at £306,500, out of 42 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £278,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,114 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

SS16 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SS16 (Basildon). 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.

The going rate for a home in SS16 4

The SS16 4 median stands at £306,500 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £278,600, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.

What a square metre costs in SS16 4

Measured by floor area, the last five years of SS16 4 sales average about £3,800 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.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS16 4 8% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical SS16 4 home went from £38,800 in 1995 to £306,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 263%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What SS16 4 has returned, per year

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.

Transaction volumes

Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in SS16 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 240 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 a year over the last five. 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.

The shape of the SS16 4 market

This is a thin market: 42 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 SS16 district median, SS16 4 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.

The rental side of SS16 4

The local authority for SS16 4 is Basildon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,410 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.

£1,410 a month is £16,920 a year, which against the £306,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. 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.

Common questions on SS16 4 (Langdon Hills)

What happens to SS16 4 prices now?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.

On the market in SS16 today

The price of an extra bedroom in SS

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in SS16

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SS16, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full SS16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS16 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in SS16 4: what the record supports

Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS16 4. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual SS16 4 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.