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Canvey Island market report SS8
The SS8 (Canvey Island) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 20,765 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SS8 (Canvey Island) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SS8 (Canvey Island) home changed hands for £328,500 in 2026 (median of 185 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £344,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,280 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,765 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district SS8 covering Canvey Island sits in Canvey Island. 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 SS8 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 prices, from the sold record
In the SS8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £328,500, from 185 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £344,300, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SS8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SS8 sales average about £4,280 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 runs 15% above it.
SS8'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £328,500 | £328,500 | 185 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 504 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 507 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 445 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 493 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 671 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 508 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 570 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 521 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 558 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 643 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 633 |
| 2014 | £188,200 | £266,995 | 624 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 518 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 441 |
| 2011 | £162,000 | £244,558 | 378 |
| 2010 | £166,800 | £261,585 | 392 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 396 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 381 |
| 2007 | £176,000 | £298,545 | 899 |
| 2006 | £163,000 | £282,947 | 905 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 726 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 862 |
| 2003 | £144,000 | £265,283 | 930 |
| 2002 | £114,000 | £214,490 | 1,021 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 951 |
| 2000 | £79,500 | £156,019 | 911 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 989 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 897 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 902 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 794 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 610 |
In cash terms the typical SS8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £328,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 202%: 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 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SS8 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SS8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £365,000 against £220,500 for a flat, 1.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SS8
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 | £365,000 | 93 | 10,103 |
| Semi-detached | £317,000 | 61 | 6,988 |
| Terraced | £297,000 | 25 | 2,447 |
| Flats | £220,500 | 6 | 1,227 |
Sales activity in SS8
The year-by-year sales count
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 386 sales completed in SS8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 901 sales a year before the financial crisis and 427 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.
What homes rent for around SS8
The local authority for SS8 is Castle Point, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,249 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £932 a month here against £2,020 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Castle Point
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,249 a month is £14,988 a year, which against the £328,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
SS8 (Canvey Island): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SS8 (Canvey Island)?
Is SS8 (Canvey Island) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS8 (Canvey Island)?
What happens to SS8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in SS8 right now
Everything above is what homes in SS8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 5 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 37% above the SS8 median sold price.
50% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
What another bedroom costs in SS
Real sold prices by size across the SS area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
SS8 ranks 1 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SS8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS8 0 | £340,000 | 39 |
| SS8 7 | £345,000 | 48 |
| SS8 8 | £327,500 | 29 |
| SS8 9 | £315,000 | 69 |
How SS8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SS5 | £418,800 | +5% |
| SS6 | £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 (this report) | £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 SS8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SS8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SS8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SS8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SS8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.