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Canvey Island market report SS8 7
The SS8 7 (Canvey Island) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,407 HM Land Registry entries for SS8 7 (Canvey Island), 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 middle 2026 sale in SS8 7 (Canvey Island) came in at £345,000, out of 48 registered, up 24% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £339,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,430 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,407 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 SS8 7 is a single group of streets within SS8 (Canvey Island), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SS8 7 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.
Today's SS8 7 prices, from the sold record
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in SS8 7 and the middle price, the median, is £345,000. The mean lands at £339,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in SS8 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SS8 7 sales average about £4,430 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SS8 7 runs 21% above it.
SS8 7's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £314,400 | £321,918 | 120 |
| 2024 | £318,800 | £338,950 | 124 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 114 |
| 2022 | £321,500 | £376,995 | 128 |
| 2021 | £277,500 | £351,351 | 172 |
| 2020 | £278,800 | £361,749 | 152 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 166 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 131 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 151 |
| 2016 | £229,500 | £321,073 | 170 |
| 2015 | £203,800 | £287,969 | 202 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 154 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 129 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 127 |
| 2011 | £162,500 | £245,313 | 95 |
| 2010 | £162,000 | £254,058 | 81 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 130 |
| 2008 | £174,000 | £285,223 | 93 |
| 2007 | £184,000 | £312,115 | 215 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 214 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 176 |
| 2004 | £156,900 | £284,961 | 238 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 251 |
| 2002 | £123,000 | £231,423 | 250 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 252 |
| 2000 | £83,500 | £163,869 | 218 |
| 1999 | £68,500 | £136,517 | 252 |
| 1998 | £59,500 | £120,105 | 219 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 251 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 213 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical SS8 7 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 217%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 8% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SS8 7 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 (+36.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.7% | +7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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 SS8 7
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in SS8 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 227 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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.
How SS8 7 trades
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SS8 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around SS8 7
SS8 7 falls under Castle Point, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £932 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,020 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Castle Point
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £345,000 median sold price, £1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Common questions on SS8 7 (Canvey Island)
Are property prices falling in SS8 7 (Canvey Island)?
Is SS8 7 (Canvey Island) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS8 7 (Canvey Island)?
Where do SS8 7 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SS8 today
Turning to what is actually available: 5 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS8 district, not just SS8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
50% 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.
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 SS8 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.
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%) | — | — |
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
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 SS8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SS8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS8 0 | £340,000 | 39 |
| SS8 8 | £327,500 | 29 |
| SS8 9 | £315,000 | 69 |
Zoom out to the full SS8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SS8 7? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS8 7'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 SS8 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS8 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SS8 7 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.