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Rayleigh market report SS6
The standing SS6 (Rayleigh) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 19,058 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS6 (Rayleigh) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SS6 (Rayleigh) sold for £415,000 in 2026, the median of 168 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £437,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 19,058 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district SS6 covering Rayleigh sits in Rayleigh. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SS6 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 SS6 homes really sell for
Across 168 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SS6 home went for £415,000. The mean is £437,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SS6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SS6 sales average about £4,650 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS6 46% above the national figure.
SS6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 168 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 547 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 551 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 493 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 611 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 766 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 463 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 468 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 477 |
| 2017 | £337,500 | £460,316 | 519 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 565 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 611 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 611 |
| 2013 | £231,000 | £332,386 | 547 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 475 |
| 2011 | £217,500 | £328,341 | 479 |
| 2010 | £227,500 | £356,779 | 475 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 449 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 393 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 838 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 806 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 631 |
| 2004 | £194,000 | £352,342 | 699 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 670 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 716 |
| 2001 | £121,000 | £232,616 | 781 |
| 2000 | £102,000 | £200,175 | 708 |
| 1999 | £86,700 | £172,789 | 922 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 783 |
| 1997 | £76,900 | £157,706 | 642 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 687 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 507 |
In cash terms the typical SS6 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 194%: 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 16% 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 SS6 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 (+20.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.0%). 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, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £560,000 against £229,500 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, SS6
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 | £560,000 | 50 | 6,098 |
| Semi-detached | £412,000 | 77 | 8,833 |
| Terraced | £345,000 | 19 | 2,159 |
| Flats | £229,500 | 22 | 1,968 |
What SS6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in SS6
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 402 sales completed in SS6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 731 sales a year before the financial crisis and 474 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.
What homes rent for around SS6
For renting purposes SS6 sits in Rochford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,296 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £887 a month here against £1,867 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rochford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £415,000 median sold price, £1,296 a month is £15,552 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
The shape of the SS6 market
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, SS6 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on SS6 (Rayleigh)
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What happens to SS6 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
On the market in SS6 today
Everything above is what homes in SS6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the SS6 median sold price.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SS
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SS area. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SS6 ranks 11 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 SS6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS6 7 | £423,200 | 42 |
| SS6 8 | £425,000 | 57 |
| SS6 9 | £407,500 | 69 |
How SS6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SS5 | £418,800 | +5% |
| SS6 (this report) | £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 | £315,000 | +9% |
| SS13 | £300,000 | +11% |
| SS1 | £286,600 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in SS6? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS6'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SS6.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every SS6 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.