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Ashingdon market report SS4, Rochford
The SS4 (Ashingdon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 12,197 registered sales in SS4 (Rochford) 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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SS4 (Rochford) sold for £360,000 in 2026, the median of 117 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £362,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,100 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,197 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SS4 is a postcode district covering Rochford, Ashingdon, Canewdon in Rochford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SS4 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 SS4
Across 117 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SS4 home went for £360,000. The mean is £362,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SS4
The last five years of sales put SS4 at roughly £4,100 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SS4 trades 26% above the country as a whole.
SS4's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £360,000 | £360,000 | 117 |
| 2025 | £371,000 | £379,872 | 386 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 387 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 259 |
| 2022 | £361,800 | £424,252 | 358 |
| 2021 | £328,800 | £416,303 | 452 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 380 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 403 |
| 2018 | £305,500 | £407,237 | 414 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 384 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 308 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 357 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 406 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 349 |
| 2012 | £187,200 | £275,535 | 264 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 257 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 251 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 236 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 237 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 572 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 569 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 355 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 438 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 430 |
| 2002 | £133,500 | £251,179 | 477 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 545 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 434 |
| 1999 | £75,500 | £150,468 | 512 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 404 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 436 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 454 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 366 |
In cash terms the typical SS4 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 186%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SS4 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 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £477,500 against £164,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SS4
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 | £477,500 | 28 | 3,462 |
| Semi-detached | £360,000 | 57 | 5,087 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 12 | 1,618 |
| Flats | £164,500 | 20 | 2,030 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.0% | −5.2% |
| 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.
Sales activity in SS4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 271 SS4 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 478 sales a year before the financial crisis and 301 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.
Rents around SS4
SS4 falls under Rochford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,296 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £887 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,867, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £360,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,296 a month (£15,552 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on SS4 (Ashingdon)
Is SS4 (Ashingdon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS4 (Ashingdon)?
Are property prices falling in SS4 (Ashingdon)?
What happens to SS4 prices now?
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.
What is for sale in SS4 right now
Everything above is what homes in SS4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the SS4 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Westbury, ROCHFORD, Essex, SS4
- Stambridge Road, Rochford, Essex, SS4
- Ashingdon Road, Rochford, Essex, SS4
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SS4 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SS area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SS4 ranks 7 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.
Five-year change in the median, SS area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SS4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SS4 1 | £360,000 | 77 |
| SS4 2 | £295,000 | 4 |
| SS4 3 | £402,500 | 36 |
How SS4 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 (this report) | £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 | £315,000 | +9% |
| SS13 | £300,000 | +11% |
| SS1 | £286,600 | -7% |
Selling a home in SS4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SS4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SS4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SS4.
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Two maps carry on from here: every SS4 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.