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Leigh-on-Sea market report SS9 5, Leigh-On-Sea
The standing SS9 5 (Leigh-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,593 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SS9 5 (Leigh-On-Sea) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 60 registered 2026 sales put the SS9 5 (Leigh-On-Sea) median at £380,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £382,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,593 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SS9 5 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 5 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.
The going rate for a home in SS9 5
The SS9 5 median stands at £380,000 for 2026, built from 60 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £382,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
SS9 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SS9 5 costs about £4,390 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SS9 5 runs 33% above it.
SS9 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £381,000 | £390,111 | 179 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 170 |
| 2023 | £358,000 | £393,355 | 143 |
| 2022 | £363,200 | £425,893 | 200 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 281 |
| 2020 | £330,000 | £428,182 | 171 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 170 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 204 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 196 |
| 2016 | £280,500 | £392,422 | 222 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 176 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 224 |
| 2013 | £207,000 | £297,852 | 195 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 151 |
| 2011 | £191,000 | £288,337 | 174 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 146 |
| 2009 | £183,000 | £294,174 | 147 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 111 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 277 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 294 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 196 |
| 2004 | £174,000 | £316,018 | 224 |
| 2003 | £161,000 | £296,601 | 213 |
| 2002 | £133,800 | £251,744 | 288 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 257 |
| 2000 | £91,800 | £180,158 | 248 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 283 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 251 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 301 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 257 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 184 |
In cash terms the typical SS9 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 191%: 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 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SS9 5 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 2001 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.5%). 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) | −0.3% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SS9 5 recorded 60 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 250 sales a year before the financial crisis and 150 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 tenants pay around SS9 5
The local authority for SS9 5 is Southend-on-Sea, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £380,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,287 a month (£15,444 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Asked and answered: SS9 5 (Leigh-on-Sea)
Are property prices falling in SS9 5 (Leigh-on-Sea)?
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Will SS9 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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
The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SS9 district, not just SS9 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
Real sold prices by size across the SS area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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 1 | £420,500 | 75 |
| SS9 2 | £315,000 | 55 |
| SS9 3 | £480,000 | 67 |
| SS9 4 | £402,500 | 47 |
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 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SS9 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SS9 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SS9 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SS9 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SS9 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SS9 5 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.
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.