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Rayleigh market report SS6 8
The standing SS6 8 (Rayleigh) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,006 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS6 8 (Rayleigh) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS6 8 (Rayleigh) came in at £425,000, out of 57 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £434,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,590 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,006 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 SS6 8 is a single group of streets within SS6 (Rayleigh), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SS6 8 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.
SS6 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The SS6 8 median stands at £425,000 for 2026, built from 57 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £434,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in SS6 8
A square metre of SS6 8 home has cost about £4,590 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SS6 8 49% above the country at large.
SS6 8'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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £417,500 | £427,484 | 191 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 176 |
| 2023 | £414,000 | £454,885 | 137 |
| 2022 | £416,500 | £488,394 | 166 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 270 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 145 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 169 |
| 2018 | £355,500 | £473,888 | 162 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 169 |
| 2016 | £335,500 | £469,368 | 186 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 211 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 189 |
| 2013 | £237,500 | £341,739 | 178 |
| 2012 | £224,000 | £329,700 | 177 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 163 |
| 2010 | £228,000 | £357,563 | 170 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 159 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 149 |
| 2007 | £233,000 | £395,233 | 225 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 235 |
| 2005 | £210,500 | £374,605 | 190 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 213 |
| 2003 | £182,500 | £336,209 | 201 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 231 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 262 |
| 2000 | £108,500 | £212,931 | 216 |
| 1999 | £86,500 | £172,390 | 219 |
| 1998 | £80,200 | £161,889 | 190 |
| 1997 | £76,200 | £156,271 | 196 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 224 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 180 |
In cash terms the typical SS6 8 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 201%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SS6 8 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in SS6 8
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.
The register shows 57 SS6 8 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 222 sales a year before the financial crisis and 145 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of SS6 8
SS6 8 falls under Rochford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,296 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £425,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,296 a month (£15,552 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
How SS6 8 trades
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SS6 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: SS6 8 (Rayleigh)
Is SS6 8 (Rayleigh) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS6 8 (Rayleigh)?
Are property prices falling in SS6 8 (Rayleigh)?
Where do SS6 8 prices go next?
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.
On the market in SS6 today
Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS6 district, not just SS6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 SS6 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in SS: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SS area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SS6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SS6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS6 7 | £423,200 | 42 |
| SS6 9 | £407,500 | 69 |
Zoom out to the full SS6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SS6 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS6 8'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 SS6 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS6 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SS6 8 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.