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Hadleigh market report SS7 3, Benfleet
The SS7 3 (Hadleigh) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,982 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS7 3 (Benfleet) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SS7 3 (Benfleet) sold for £375,000 in 2026, the median of 60 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £406,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,982 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SS7 3 is a single group of streets within SS7 (Benfleet), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SS7 3 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 a home in SS7 3 sells for
The SS7 3 median stands at £375,000 for 2026, built from 60 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £406,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SS7 3
A square metre of SS7 3 home has cost about £4,550 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SS7 3 sits 32% above the national market.
A typical SS7 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 183 |
| 2024 | £360,000 | £382,754 | 160 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 128 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 186 |
| 2021 | £360,000 | £455,806 | 238 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 153 |
| 2019 | £319,000 | £418,133 | 170 |
| 2018 | £316,200 | £421,501 | 158 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 175 |
| 2016 | £288,500 | £403,614 | 206 |
| 2015 | £252,500 | £356,783 | 207 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 179 |
| 2013 | £218,000 | £313,680 | 177 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 143 |
| 2011 | £196,000 | £295,885 | 127 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 126 |
| 2009 | £193,500 | £311,053 | 135 |
| 2008 | £222,000 | £363,905 | 128 |
| 2007 | £208,500 | £353,674 | 266 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 242 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 220 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 235 |
| 2003 | £172,200 | £317,234 | 206 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 252 |
| 2001 | £111,500 | £214,353 | 236 |
| 2000 | £94,800 | £186,045 | 187 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 265 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 226 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 216 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 233 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical SS7 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SS7 3 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 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS7 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.1% | −7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 60 sales completed in SS7 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 231 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 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 SS7 3
The local authority for SS7 3 is Castle Point, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £932 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,020, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Castle Point
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £375,000 median sold price, £1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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 SS7 3 (Hadleigh)
How much did a house sell for in SS7 3 (Hadleigh)?
Are property prices falling in SS7 3 (Hadleigh)?
Is SS7 3 (Hadleigh) a good place to buy a house?
Will SS7 3 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 SS7 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 11 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS7 district, not just SS7 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
9% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every SS7 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SS area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in SS7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SS7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS7 1 | £490,000 | 50 |
| SS7 2 | £445,000 | 55 |
| SS7 4 | £380,000 | 33 |
| SS7 5 | £375,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full SS7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SS7 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SS7 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SS7 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SS7 3 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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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS7 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SS7 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.