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Southend-on-Sea market report SS2 4, Southend-On-Sea
The standing SS2 4 (Southend-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 8,663 registered sales in SS2 4 (Southend-On-Sea) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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 SS2 4 (Southend-On-Sea) came in at £322,500, out of 78 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £324,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,663 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SS2 4 is a single group of streets within SS2 (Southend-On-Sea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SS2 4 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.
The going rate for a home in SS2 4
In the SS2 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £322,500, from 78 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £324,100, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in SS2 4
Per square metre, SS2 4 homes have averaged around £3,800 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SS2 4 trades 13% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SS2 4 home, 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 | £322,500 | £322,500 | 78 |
| 2025 | £327,500 | £335,332 | 223 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 166 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 153 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 213 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 276 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 214 |
| 2019 | £263,000 | £344,730 | 242 |
| 2018 | £268,000 | £357,249 | 225 |
| 2017 | £253,800 | £346,158 | 256 |
| 2016 | £236,800 | £331,286 | 276 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 262 |
| 2014 | £186,500 | £264,583 | 273 |
| 2013 | £174,300 | £250,800 | 230 |
| 2012 | £163,500 | £240,652 | 198 |
| 2011 | £164,000 | £247,577 | 203 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 201 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 219 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 193 |
| 2007 | £167,500 | £284,127 | 371 |
| 2006 | £157,800 | £273,921 | 412 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 287 |
| 2004 | £143,800 | £261,169 | 362 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 394 |
| 2002 | £97,000 | £182,505 | 387 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 393 |
| 2000 | £66,500 | £130,506 | 361 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 386 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 300 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 336 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 291 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 282 |
In cash terms the typical SS2 4 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £322,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 249%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. 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.
Year-on-year change in the SS2 4 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.8%). 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 years (since 2025) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SS2 4
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 78 SS2 4 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 371 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 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.
What homes rent for around SS2 4
For renting purposes SS2 4 sits in Southend-on-Sea. The ONS average private rent there is £1,287 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £865 a month here against £1,839 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Southend-on-Sea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, which against the £322,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Asked and answered: SS2 4 (Southend-on-Sea)
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Are SS2 4 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
On the market in SS2 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 58 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS2 district, not just SS2 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% 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.
- The Pinnacle, 59 Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Southend-On-Sea
- The Pinnacle , Southend-On-Sea, Southend-On-Sea
- The Pinnacle , Southend-On-Sea, Southend-On-Sea
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SS2 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SS
Real sold prices by size across the SS area, straight 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 SS2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SS2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS2 5 | £300,000 | 51 |
| SS2 6 | £311,200 | 74 |
Zoom out to the full SS2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SS2 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SS2 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS2 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS2 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SS2 4.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SS2 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SS2 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.