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Leigh-on-Sea market report SS9 1, Leigh-On-Sea
The SS9 1 (Leigh-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,994 HM Land Registry entries for SS9 1 (Leigh-On-Sea), 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SS9 1 (Leigh-On-Sea) came in at £420,500, out of 75 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £441,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,950 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,994 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SS9 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SS9 (Leigh-On-Sea). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SS9 1 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 buyers actually paid in SS9 1
Across 75 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SS9 1 home went for £420,500. The mean is £441,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SS9 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SS9 1 at roughly £4,950 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SS9 1 sits 48% above the national market.
SS9 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,500 | £420,500 | 75 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 185 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 165 |
| 2023 | £436,000 | £479,058 | 151 |
| 2022 | £400,500 | £469,632 | 214 |
| 2021 | £429,000 | £543,169 | 284 |
| 2020 | £367,000 | £476,190 | 190 |
| 2019 | £372,000 | £487,603 | 160 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 176 |
| 2017 | £370,000 | £504,643 | 201 |
| 2016 | £307,500 | £430,196 | 238 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 243 |
| 2014 | £251,200 | £356,371 | 278 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 211 |
| 2012 | £239,000 | £351,778 | 184 |
| 2011 | £243,200 | £367,138 | 172 |
| 2010 | £226,200 | £354,740 | 192 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 158 |
| 2008 | £218,700 | £358,495 | 174 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 345 |
| 2006 | £212,000 | £368,005 | 361 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 300 |
| 2004 | £187,200 | £339,992 | 330 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 362 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 409 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 355 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 325 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 399 |
| 1998 | £61,000 | £123,133 | 332 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 305 |
| 1996 | £51,800 | £109,244 | 306 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 214 |
In cash terms the typical SS9 1 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £420,500 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 340%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SS9 1 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 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−8.3%). 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) | +5.1% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 75 SS9 1 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 348 sales a year before the financial crisis and 158 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.
The rental side of SS9 1
SS9 1 falls under Southend-on-Sea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,287 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £865 a month here against £1,839 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Southend-on-Sea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, which against the £420,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
SS9 1 (Leigh-on-Sea): the questions that come up
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Are SS9 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
What you could buy in SS9 now
Turning to what is actually available: 16 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS9 district, not just SS9 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SS9 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SS area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SS9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SS9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS9 2 | £315,000 | 55 |
| SS9 3 | £480,000 | 67 |
| SS9 4 | £402,500 | 47 |
| SS9 5 | £380,000 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full SS9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SS9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SS9 1? 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 SS9 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS9 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS9 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual SS9 1 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.