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Southend-on-Sea market report SS2, Southend-On-Sea
The SS2 (Southend-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 20,758 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS2 (Southend-On-Sea) 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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SS2 (Southend-On-Sea) home changed hands for £315,000 in 2026 (median of 203 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £310,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,758 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SS2 is the postcode district covering Southend-on-Sea, Prittlewell, Southchurch in Southend-On-Sea. 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 SS2 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.
What buyers actually paid in SS2
Across 203 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SS2 home went for £315,000. The mean is £310,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SS2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SS2 costs about £3,750 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SS2 sits 11% above the national market.
SS2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 203 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 506 |
| 2024 | £302,500 | £321,620 | 449 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 375 |
| 2022 | £279,000 | £327,159 | 703 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 651 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 470 |
| 2019 | £257,000 | £336,865 | 563 |
| 2018 | £247,500 | £329,922 | 776 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 666 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 656 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 610 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 597 |
| 2013 | £171,000 | £246,052 | 490 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 422 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 452 |
| 2010 | £162,500 | £254,842 | 445 |
| 2009 | £153,000 | £245,949 | 493 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 508 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 947 |
| 2006 | £158,000 | £274,268 | 945 |
| 2005 | £150,500 | £267,829 | 724 |
| 2004 | £142,000 | £257,900 | 831 |
| 2003 | £123,200 | £226,964 | 892 |
| 2002 | £96,000 | £180,623 | 938 |
| 2001 | £76,500 | £147,067 | 874 |
| 2000 | £68,500 | £134,431 | 903 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 852 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 733 |
| 1997 | £50,400 | £103,360 | 766 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 727 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 591 |
In cash terms the typical SS2 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 237%: 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 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SS2 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 2003 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £410,000 against £205,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SS2
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 | £410,000 | 23 | 1,837 |
| Semi-detached | £351,000 | 78 | 6,974 |
| Terraced | £306,000 | 47 | 5,858 |
| Flats | £205,000 | 55 | 6,089 |
Sales activity in SS2
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 402 SS2 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 882 sales a year before the financial crisis and 447 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.
Reading the SS2 market
In its area's price order SS2 comes 15 of 17, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around SS2
SS2 falls under Southend-on-Sea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,287 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £315,000 median sold price, £1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
What people ask about SS2 (Southend-on-Sea)
Is SS2 (Southend-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS2 (Southend-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in SS2 (Southend-on-Sea)?
Will SS2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 is for sale in SS2 right now
Everything above is what homes in SS2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 58 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% below the SS2 median sold price.
32% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in SS: the cost
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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SS2 ranks 9 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SS2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS2 4 | £322,500 | 78 |
| SS2 5 | £300,000 | 51 |
| SS2 6 | £311,200 | 74 |
How SS2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SS5 | £418,800 | +5% |
| SS6 | £415,000 | +6% |
| SS9 | £403,800 | +4% |
| SS7 | £398,000 | +10% |
| SS11 | £395,000 | +5% |
| SS12 | £375,000 | +9% |
| SS17 | £370,000 | +12% |
| SS4 | £360,000 | +9% |
| SS3 | £345,500 | +5% |
| SS16 | £340,000 | +3% |
| SS15 | £330,000 | +8% |
| SS8 | £328,500 | +17% |
| SS14 | £325,000 | +14% |
| SS0 | £322,500 | +13% |
| SS2 (this report) | £315,000 | +9% |
| SS13 | £300,000 | +11% |
| SS1 | £286,600 | -7% |
Selling in SS2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SS2, open the average prices map and zoom from the SS2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SS2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
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The live map plots every individual SS2 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.