Somercotes, Basildon house prices are built from 158 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Jul 2016. The median price paid across the whole record is £82,250. Across the 10 years from 2005 to 2015 the median moved +37.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.2%.
Median price paid
£82,250
Change in cash, 2005–2015
+37.2%
Change in real terms
+6.2%
HM Land Registry158 salesLatest sale 27 Jul 2016
Section 01
How Somercotes, Basildon prices moved
The chart tracks the median Somercotes, Basildon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2015. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £32,000 | £71,055 |
| 2000s | 9 | £105,000 | £191,279 |
| 2010s | 1 | £164,000 | £231,240 |
The highest yearly median on record for Somercotes, Basildon is £164,000 in 2015; the lowest is £24,950 in 1997. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £26,875 to £164,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £59,675, so the real change over the whole record is +287.5% — about +7.01% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +37.2% in cash against +6.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 276 | 27 Jul 2016 | Terraced | £195,000 | £272,228 |
| 281 | 17 May 2016 | Terraced | £190,750 | £266,295 |
| 329 | 26 Feb 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £179,000 | £249,891 |
| 369 | 26 Jan 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £166,000 | £231,743 |
| 405 | 20 Oct 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £133,950 |
| 435 | 16 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £153,000 | £215,730 |
| 300 | 2 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £181,000 | £255,210 |
| 397 | 14 Aug 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £246,750 |
| 284 | 22 Apr 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £260,850 |
| 366 | 16 Jan 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £151,000 | £212,910 |
| 376 | 12 Dec 2014 | Terraced | £137,000 | £196,511 |
| 158 | 24 Jul 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £101,000 | £144,873 |
| 388 | 30 Jun 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £131,963 |
| 124 | 21 Mar 2014 | Terraced | £125,000 | £179,298 |
| 271 | 27 Jun 2013 | Terraced | £125,000 | £182,265 |
| 312 | 7 May 2013 | Terraced | £124,999 | £182,263 |
| 332 | 13 Jul 2012 | Terraced | £123,000 | £183,718 |
| 369 | 2 Mar 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £164,301 |
| 356 | 22 Jul 2011 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £160,924 |
| 321 | 25 Feb 2011 | Terraced | £110,000 | £168,587 |
| 152 | 21 Oct 2010 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £199,604 |
| 273 | 29 Sep 2010 | Terraced | £120,000 | £191,619 |
| 367 | 16 Sep 2010 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £146,908 |
| 273 | 28 Aug 2009 | Terraced | £87,000 | £142,972 |
| 361 | 10 Oct 2008 | Terraced | £110,000 | £184,643 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Somercotes, Basildon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 276 Somercotes | £106,250 (2006) | £195,000 (2016) | +6.3% | +3.7% |
| 281 Somercotes | £100,000 (2005) | £190,750 (2016) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 329 Somercotes | £94,500 (2003) | £179,000 (2016) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 369 Somercotes | £91,000 (2006) | £166,000 (2016) | +6.2% | +3.6% |
| 435 Somercotes | £34,000 (1999) | £153,000 (2015) | +9.9% | +7.4% |
| 300 Somercotes | £39,000 (1999) | £181,000 (2015) | +10.1% | +7.6% |
| 284 Somercotes | £53,500 (2000) | £185,000 (2015) | +8.6% | +6.1% |
| 366 Somercotes | £75,500 (2002) | £151,000 (2015) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| 376 Somercotes | £25,000 (1996) | £137,000 (2014) | +9.9% | +7.4% |
| 388 Somercotes | £26,000 (2001) | £92,000 (2014) | +10.2% | +7.6% |
| 124 Somercotes | £105,000 (2004) | £125,000 (2014) | +1.8% | -0.8% |
| 271 Somercotes | £59,500 (2002) | £125,000 (2013) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Somercotes, Basildon is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 74 | 46.8% | £80,000 | £23,000 – £195,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 68 | 43.0% | £75,500 | £16,800 – £185,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 8.9% | £87,000 | £27,500 – £140,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.3% | £69,000 | £69,000 – £95,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Somercotes, Basildon
23 of the sales on record are leasehold and 135 freehold — 14.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £52,000 and the median freehold sale £87,000 — a gap of +67.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 23 | 14.6% | £52,000 |
| Freehold | 135 | 85.4% | £87,000 |
A further 4 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Somercotes, Basildon
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Basildon, 48.8% of 79,564 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 132 | 0.2% |
| B | 7,749 | 9.7% |
| C | 30,917 | 38.9% |
| D | 31,152 | 39.2% |
| E | 8,046 | 10.1% |
| F | 1,310 | 1.6% |
| G | 258 | 0.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Basildon at £1,416 a month as of Jun 2026 — £977 for a one-bedroom home and £1,498 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £82,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 20.66% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SS15, 238 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 116 violent, 5 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 26 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.
Against the 187,571 residents the 2021 census counted in Basildon, that is 1.27 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Somercotes, Basildon
The 2021 census counted 187,571 residents in Basildon across 76,363 households. 64.4% of those households own their home and 35.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a SS15 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The James Hornsby School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,040 |
| The Phoenix Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 717 |
| Janet Duke Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 611 |
| Millhouse Primary School | Primary | Community school | 611 |
| Merrylands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 542 |
| St Anne Line Catholic Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 250 |
| Laindon Park Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 217 |
| Noak Bridge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| St Anne Line Catholic Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 176 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Laindon Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Basildon Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Pitsea Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
| Billericay Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
Section 09
How Somercotes, Basildon compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Somercotes, Basildon sits below that national figure — -47.8%.
Within Basildon the street ranks 1019 of 1057 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £148,500 (-44.6%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £16,800 to £195,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Somercotes, Basildon sits in Basildon, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Basildon at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,539 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Copperfields£96,250 median
- School Avenue£285,000 median
- Bramble Tye£143,000 median
- Great Knightleys£142,000 median
- Falstones£157,000 median
- Church Road£150,000 median
- Little Lullaway£134,500 median
- Robinia Close£91,000 median
- Beeston Courts£137,950 median
- Ballards Walk£118,750 median
- Woolmer Green£143,000 median
- Crosse Courts£123,950 median
- Walnut Close£150,000 median
- Warwick Crescent£253,748 median
- Bridge Street£145,000 median
- Crouch Street£182,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 369 Somercotes4 sales
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- 366 Somercotes3 sales
- 388 Somercotes3 sales
- 271 Somercotes3 sales
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- 379 Somercotes3 sales
- 157 Somercotes3 sales
- 276 Somercotes2 sales
- 281 Somercotes2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Somercotes, Basildon?
The median price paid in Somercotes, Basildon across every sale on the register is £82,250. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Somercotes, Basildon?
158 sales are on record for Somercotes, Basildon, the most recent completing on 27 Jul 2016. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Somercotes, Basildon house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +37.2% between 2005 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Somercotes, Basildon house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £164,000, set in 2015. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Somercotes, Basildon?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 27 Jul 2016. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Somercotes, Basildon house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.