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Leigh-on-Sea market report SS9 2, Leigh-On-Sea

The standing SS9 2 (Leigh-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,139 registered sales in SS9 2 (Leigh-On-Sea) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: 55 registered 2026 sales put the SS9 2 (Leigh-On-Sea) median at £315,000, down 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £438,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,130 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,139 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

A postcode sector like SS9 2 is a single group of streets within SS9 (Leigh-On-Sea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

The going rate for a home in SS9 2

In the SS9 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £315,000, from 55 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £438,700, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.

SS9 2 prices by floor area

A square metre of SS9 2 home has cost about £5,130 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.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SS9 2 11% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical SS9 2 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 123%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 47% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−37.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What SS9 2 has returned, per year

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 SS9 2

Over the last twelve months of data, 55 sales completed in SS9 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 244 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 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.

Rents around SS9 2

SS9 2 falls under Southend-on-Sea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,287 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £865 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,839 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

£1,287 a month is £15,444 a year, which against the £315,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.

What kind of market SS9 2 is

This is a thin market: 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the SS9 district median, SS9 2 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.

Asked and answered: SS9 2 (Leigh-on-Sea)

Are SS9 2 prices heading up or down?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

What you could buy in SS9 now

The price of an extra bedroom in SS

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the SS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in SS9

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SS9, each linking to its own report:

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 2? Get a rough value first

Dig further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SS9 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every SS9 2 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.

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.