Castle Road, Benfleet house prices are built from 109 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £180,000. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +187.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +91.8%.
Median price paid
£180,000
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+187.8%
Change in real terms
+91.8%
Median per m²
£2,270
HM Land Registry109 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Castle Road, Benfleet prices moved
The chart tracks the median Castle Road, Benfleet house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | 3 | £61,200 | £135,893 |
| 2000s | 7 | £181,000 | £329,729 |
| 2010s | 1 | £310,000 | £437,100 |
| 2020s | 1 | £521,000 | £532,326 |
The highest yearly median on record for Castle Road, Benfleet is £521,000 in 2022; the lowest is £56,000 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £56,000 to £521,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £124,346, so the real change over the whole record is +385.4% — about +6.03% 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: +187.8% in cash against +91.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 22 Oct 2025 | Detached | £525,000 | £536,413 |
| 51 | 27 Jun 2025 | Detached | £980,000 | £1,001,304 |
| 49 | 17 Dec 2024 | Detached | £999,950 | £1,052,186 |
| 57 | 19 Feb 2024 | Detached | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 64 | 31 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £520,858 |
| 22 | 19 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| Flat 5 Estuary View, 103 – 105 | 6 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £368,000 | £397,609 |
| 6 | 4 Aug 2022 | Detached | £665,000 | £770,460 |
| 77 | 29 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £323,000 | £374,224 |
| 81 | 21 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £521,000 | £603,624 |
| 33 | 20 Apr 2022 | Detached | £665,000 | £770,460 |
| 66 | 18 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 8 | 30 Mar 2021 | Detached | £570,000 | £720,161 |
| 7 | 5 Nov 2020 | Detached | £470,000 | £608,540 |
| 23 | 21 Feb 2020 | Detached | £394,000 | £510,138 |
| 49 | 17 Dec 2019 | Detached | £675,000 | £882,885 |
| 35 | 28 May 2019 | Detached | £525,000 | £686,688 |
| Flat 4 Estuary View, 103 – 105 | 27 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £346,503 |
| Flat 2 Estuary View, 103 – 105 | 8 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 25 | 3 Aug 2018 | Detached | £530,000 | £706,333 |
| 70 | 8 Feb 2018 | Semi-detached | £311,000 | £414,471 |
| 24 | 26 Jan 2018 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £413,138 |
| 4 | 6 Jul 2017 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £367,471 |
| 40 | 17 May 2017 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £340,251 |
| 52 | 13 Feb 2017 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £483,156 |
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 Castle Road, Benfleet values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 Castle Road | £675,000 (2019) | £999,950 (2024) | +8.2% | +3.6% |
| 64 Castle Road | £142,500 (2002) | £495,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| FLAT 5 ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road | £106,000 (2002) | £368,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.2% |
| 6 Castle Road | £180,000 (2002) | £665,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 33 Castle Road | £130,000 (1998) | £665,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 8 Castle Road | £390,000 (2004) | £570,000 (2021) | +2.3% | 0.0% |
| 35 Castle Road | £187,000 (2001) | £525,000 (2019) | +5.9% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 4 ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road | £99,995 (2002) | £260,000 (2018) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| FLAT 2 ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road | £95,000 (2000) | £250,000 (2018) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
| 24 Castle Road | £167,500 (2007) | £310,000 (2018) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 4 Castle Road | £250,000 (2006) | £270,000 (2017) | +0.7% | -1.7% |
| 40 Castle Road | £80,000 (1997) | £250,000 (2017) | +5.9% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Castle Road, Benfleet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 40 | 36.7% | £177,000 | £40,000 – £495,000 |
| Detached | 38 | 34.9% | £293,500 | £46,000 – £999,950 |
| Flat or maisonette | 26 | 23.9% | £109,995 | £61,200 – £368,000 |
| Terraced | 5 | 4.6% | £225,000 | £69,995 – £521,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Castle Road, Benfleet
26 of the sales on record are leasehold and 83 freehold — 23.9% 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 £112,495 and the median freehold sale £230,000 — a gap of +104.5%. 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 | 26 | 23.9% | £112,495 |
| Freehold | 83 | 76.1% | £230,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.8% | £390,000 |
| Existing home | 107 | 98.2% | £180,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +116.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 3 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 Castle Road, Benfleet
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 £180,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.44% 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 SS7, 77 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 36 violent, 3 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times quieter.
Against the 187,571 residents the 2021 census counted in Basildon, that is 0.41 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 Castle Road, Benfleet
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.
17 state and independent schools have a SS7 postcode: 13 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 King John School | Secondary | Academy converter | 2,098 |
| The Appleton School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,597 |
| The Deanes | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 588 |
| Thundersley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 423 |
| South Benfleet Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 414 |
| Hadleigh Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 357 |
| Kents Hill Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 343 |
| The Robert Drake Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 313 |
| Jotmans Hall Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 304 |
| Hadleigh Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 302 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Benfleet Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Rayleigh Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Leigh-on-Sea Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Pitsea Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
Section 09
How Castle Road, Benfleet compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Castle Road, Benfleet sits above that national figure — +14.3%.
Within Benfleet the street ranks 420 of 509 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £207,000 (-13.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,270 per square metre, across 18 of the 109 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £40,000 to £999,950. 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.
Castle Road, Benfleet 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
- London Road£147,000 median
- High Road£174,500 median
- Church Road£180,000 median
- Hart Road£165,500 median
- Rayleigh Road£184,998 median
- Daws Heath Road£270,000 median
- Benfleet Road£198,750 median
- Kents Hill Road£205,000 median
- Kiln Road£230,000 median
- Thundersley Park Road£240,000 median
- Manor Road£210,000 median
- Kimberley Road£235,000 median
- The Rundels£174,995 median
- Oak Road South£156,500 median
- Clifton Avenue£180,000 median
- Essex Way£238,875 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 54 Castle Road5 sales
- 6 Castle Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road4 sales
- FLAT 8, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road4 sales
- 64 Castle Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road3 sales
- 33 Castle Road3 sales
- 35 Castle Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road3 sales
- 6, ESTUARY VIEW 103-105 Castle Road3 sales
- 68 Castle Road3 sales
- 9 Castle Road3 sales
- 49 Castle Road2 sales
- 8 Castle Road2 sales
- FLAT 2, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road2 sales
- 24 Castle Road2 sales
- 4 Castle Road2 sales
- 40 Castle Road2 sales
- 52 Castle Road2 sales
- 17 Castle Road2 sales
- FLAT 9, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road2 sales
- 60A Castle Road2 sales
- FLAT 1, ESTUARY VIEW, 103 – 105 Castle Road2 sales
- 5 Castle Road2 sales
Back to Benfleet house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Castle Road, Benfleet?
The median price paid in Castle Road, Benfleet across every sale on the register is £180,000. 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 Castle Road, Benfleet?
109 sales are on record for Castle Road, Benfleet, the most recent completing on 22 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Castle Road, Benfleet house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +187.8% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +91.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Castle Road, Benfleet house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £521,000, set in 2022. 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 Castle Road, Benfleet?
£2,270 per square metre, from the 18 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 22 Oct 2025. 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, “Castle Road, Benfleet 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.