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Leigh-on-Sea market report SS9 3, Leigh-On-Sea
The SS9 3 (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 6,066 HM Land Registry entries for SS9 3 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SS9 3 (Leigh-On-Sea) home changed hands for £480,000 in 2026 (median of 67 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £480,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,970 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,066 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SS9 3 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.
Where SS9 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 buyers actually paid in SS9 3
The SS9 3 median stands at £480,000 for 2026, built from 67 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £480,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in SS9 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SS9 3 costs about £4,970 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SS9 3 sits 68% above the national market.
The price of a typical SS9 3 home, 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 | £480,000 | £480,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £505,000 | £517,076 | 163 |
| 2024 | £515,000 | £547,551 | 160 |
| 2023 | £491,500 | £540,038 | 112 |
| 2022 | £487,500 | £571,649 | 182 |
| 2021 | £471,800 | £597,360 | 242 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 178 |
| 2019 | £405,500 | £531,513 | 160 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 157 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 196 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 189 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 203 |
| 2014 | £282,000 | £400,066 | 197 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 188 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 184 |
| 2011 | £241,000 | £363,817 | 141 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 148 |
| 2009 | £227,500 | £365,708 | 170 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 127 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 214 |
| 2006 | £233,200 | £404,805 | 252 |
| 2005 | £213,800 | £380,478 | 170 |
| 2004 | £216,800 | £393,751 | 224 |
| 2003 | £184,000 | £338,973 | 221 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 258 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 227 |
| 2000 | £108,000 | £211,950 | 224 |
| 1999 | £92,500 | £184,348 | 269 |
| 1998 | £79,500 | £160,476 | 210 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 228 |
| 1996 | £69,500 | £146,572 | 234 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical SS9 3 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £480,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 240%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. 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 SS9 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 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.0% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +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.
How many homes change hands in SS9 3
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.
SS9 3 recorded 67 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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.
How SS9 3 trades
Against the SS9 district median, SS9 3 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SS9 3
For renting purposes SS9 3 sits in Southend-on-Sea. The ONS average private rent there is £1,287 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £480,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,287 a month (£15,444 a year) works out at a 3.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about SS9 3 (Leigh-on-Sea)
Is SS9 3 (Leigh-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SS9 3 (Leigh-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in SS9 3 (Leigh-on-Sea)?
Are SS9 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 SS9 right 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SS
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SS area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
SS area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
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:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SS9 1 | £420,500 | 75 |
| SS9 2 | £315,000 | 55 |
| 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.
Selling a home in SS9 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SS9 3'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SS9 3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS9 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SS9 3 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.