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Southend-on-Sea market report SS2 5, Southend-On-Sea

The SS2 5 (Southend-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,848 registered sales in SS2 5 (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.

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 SS2 5 (Southend-On-Sea) came in at £300,000, out of 51 registered, up 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £284,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,390 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,848 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

SS2 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SS2 (Southend-On-Sea). 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.

Today's SS2 5 prices, from the sold record

Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SS2 5 home went for £300,000. The mean is £284,300, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.

SS2 5 prices by floor area

A square metre of SS2 5 home has cost about £3,390 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS2 5 5% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical SS2 5 home went from £33,900 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 307%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 5% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+39.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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

SS2 5 recorded 51 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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.

Reading the SS2 5 market

Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SS2 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.

The rental side of SS2 5

The local authority for SS2 5 is Southend-on-Sea, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,287 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £865 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,839 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

Set against the £300,000 median sold price, £1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.

Asked and answered: SS2 5 (Southend-on-Sea)

Are SS2 5 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.

SS2's current homes for sale

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 SS2

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SS2, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full SS2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS2 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in SS2 5? Start from the sold record

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The live map plots every individual SS2 5 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.