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Hullbridge market report SS5 4, Hockley
The standing SS5 4 (Hullbridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,645 HM Land Registry entries for SS5 4 (Hockley), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SS5 4 (Hockley) is £430,000, from 66 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £471,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,490 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,645 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SS5 4 is a single group of streets within SS5 (Hockley), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SS5 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.
SS5 4 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 66 registered 2026 sales in SS5 4 and the middle price, the median, is £430,000. The mean lands at £471,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SS5 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SS5 4 sales average about £4,490 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SS5 4 trades 51% above the country as a whole.
A typical SS5 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 66 |
| 2025 | £457,500 | £468,440 | 174 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 141 |
| 2023 | £400,500 | £440,052 | 138 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 183 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 237 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 143 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 145 |
| 2018 | £385,000 | £513,212 | 175 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 221 |
| 2016 | £365,000 | £510,639 | 193 |
| 2015 | £365,000 | £515,745 | 211 |
| 2014 | £318,700 | £452,132 | 204 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 152 |
| 2012 | £229,500 | £337,795 | 128 |
| 2011 | £224,000 | £338,154 | 125 |
| 2010 | £229,500 | £359,915 | 120 |
| 2009 | £204,500 | £328,735 | 119 |
| 2008 | £240,900 | £394,886 | 124 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 183 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 224 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 156 |
| 2004 | £212,500 | £385,942 | 197 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 212 |
| 2002 | £153,000 | £287,868 | 221 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 210 |
| 2000 | £120,800 | £237,070 | 208 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 231 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 201 |
| 1997 | £73,500 | £150,734 | 193 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 250 |
| 1995 | £68,600 | £149,126 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical SS5 4 home went from £68,600 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 188%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SS5 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 2000 (+42.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−16.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS5 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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 SS5 4
The year-by-year sales count
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 66 SS5 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 201 sales a year before the financial crisis and 140 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.
The shape of the SS5 4 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around SS5 4
For renting purposes SS5 4 sits in Rochford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,296 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £887 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,867 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,296 a month is £15,552 a year, which against the £430,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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: SS5 4 (Hullbridge)
Is SS5 4 (Hullbridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS5 4 (Hullbridge)?
Are property prices falling in SS5 4 (Hullbridge)?
Will SS5 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
What is for sale in SS5 right now
The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS5 district, not just SS5 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
67% 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.
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- Eveleigh Gardens, Hullbridge, Hockley...
"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 SS5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SS prices by size
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SS5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SS5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS5 5 | £445,000 | 27 |
| SS5 6 | £380,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full SS5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SS5 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS5 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SS5 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SS5 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SS5 4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.