Highams Road, Hockley house prices are built from 91 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 20 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £385,000. Across the 15 years from 2006 to 2021 the median moved +132.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +64.9%.
Median price paid
£385,000
Change in cash, 2006–2021
+132.4%
Change in real terms
+64.9%
Median per m²
£2,881
HM Land Registry91 sales15 with floor areaLatest sale 20 May 2026
Section 01
How Highams Road, Hockley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Highams Road, Hockley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 to 2021. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £241,000 | £439,031 |
| 2010s | 2 | £600,000 | £846,000 |
| 2020s | 1 | £560,000 | £572,174 |
The highest yearly median on record for Highams Road, Hockley is £670,000 in 2016; the lowest is £241,000 in 2006. Across the full 18-year record the cash median has moved from £245,000 to £560,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £454,539, so the real change over the whole record is +55.7% — about +2.64% 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: +132.4% in cash against +64.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22b | 20 May 2026 | Detached | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| 60 | 3 Oct 2025 | Detached | £600,000 | £613,043 |
| 27 | 7 Jul 2025 | Detached | £735,000 | £750,978 |
| 41 | 12 Aug 2024 | Detached | £525,000 | £552,425 |
| 5 | 22 Apr 2024 | Detached | £1,125,000 | £1,183,769 |
| 55a | 2 Feb 2024 | Detached | £665,000 | £699,739 |
| 22a | 25 Jan 2024 | Detached | £767,500 | £807,593 |
| 23c | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 22 | 29 Sep 2022 | Detached | £815,000 | £944,248 |
| 49 | 11 Jul 2022 | Detached | £612,500 | £709,634 |
| 45 | 25 Jun 2021 | Detached | £685,000 | £865,457 |
| 23c | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £486,425 |
| 34 | 21 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £713,844 |
| 61 | 16 Apr 2021 | Detached | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| 43 | 16 Feb 2021 | Detached | £560,000 | £707,527 |
| 60 | 8 Oct 2020 | Detached | £555,000 | £718,595 |
| 28 | 26 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £550,275 |
| 51 | 14 Mar 2019 | Detached | £492,000 | £643,525 |
| 40 | 31 Jan 2019 | Detached | £480,000 | £627,829 |
| 55 | 31 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £646,361 |
| 75 | 31 Jan 2018 | Detached | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| 22a | 19 Dec 2017 | Detached | £625,000 | £850,627 |
| 36 | 10 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £423,000 | £575,705 |
| 49 | 20 Oct 2017 | Detached | £515,000 | £700,917 |
| 57 | 21 Sep 2017 | Detached | £467,500 | £636,269 |
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 Highams Road, Hockley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22B Highams Road | £600,000 (2017) | £775,000 (2026) | +2.9% | -0.6% |
| 60 Highams Road | £298,500 (2009) | £600,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.4% |
| 27 Highams Road | £266,500 (2001) | £735,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 41 Highams Road | £386,000 (2013) | £525,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 5 Highams Road | £499,995 (2003) | £1,125,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| 55A Highams Road | £415,000 (2008) | £665,000 (2024) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| 22A Highams Road | £625,000 (2017) | £767,500 (2024) | +3.0% | -0.7% |
| 23C Highams Road | £385,000 (2021) | £425,000 (2023) | +5.1% | -2.8% |
| 22 Highams Road | £600,000 (2017) | £815,000 (2022) | +6.3% | +2.9% |
| 49 Highams Road | £515,000 (2017) | £612,500 (2022) | +3.5% | +0.2% |
| 45 Highams Road | £250,000 (2012) | £685,000 (2021) | +11.9% | +9.8% |
| 34 Highams Road | £125,000 (2000) | £565,000 (2021) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Highams Road, Hockley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 65 | 71.4% | £467,500 | £74,000 – £1,125,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 28.6% | £235,000 | £63,500 – £565,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Highams Road, Hockley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 91 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 91 | 100.0% | £385,000 |
| New build | 2 | 2.2% | £425,000 |
| Existing home | 89 | 97.8% | £385,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +10.4%. 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 Highams Road, Hockley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Rochford, 41.9% of 33,916 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 320 | 0.9% |
| B | 4,695 | 13.8% |
| C | 9,211 | 27.2% |
| D | 12,865 | 37.9% |
| E | 5,370 | 15.8% |
| F | 1,203 | 3.5% |
| G | 252 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Rochford at £1,297 a month as of Jun 2026 — £888 for a one-bedroom home and £1,424 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £385,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.04% 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 SS5, 36 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 14 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.6 times quieter.
Against the 85,661 residents the 2021 census counted in Rochford, that is 0.42 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 Highams Road, Hockley
The 2021 census counted 85,661 residents in Rochford across 35,558 households. 81.2% of those households own their home and 18.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
5 state and independent schools have a SS5 postcode: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lift Greensward | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,605 |
| Lift Plumberow | Primary | Academy converter | 633 |
| Riverside Primary School | Primary | Community school | 422 |
| Lift Westerings | Primary | Academy converter | 417 |
| Lift Hockley | Primary | Academy converter | 331 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hockley Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Rayleigh Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Rochford Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| North Fambridge Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
Section 09
How Highams Road, Hockley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Highams Road, Hockley sits above that national figure — +144.4%.
Within Hockley the street ranks 55 of 263 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £241,000 (+59.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,881 per square metre, across 15 of the 91 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 £63,500 to £1,125,000. 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.
Highams Road, Hockley sits in Rochford, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Rochford at 11.1 times median local earnings of £36,625 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
- Main Road£249,998 median
- Ferry Road£195,000 median
- Plumberow Avenue£286,250 median
- Lower Road£263,000 median
- Rectory Road£210,000 median
- Barnwell Drive£155,000 median
- Greensward Lane£235,000 median
- Burnham Road£235,000 median
- Southend Road£187,500 median
- Broad Walk£228,000 median
- Sudeley Gardens£114,998 median
- Cornhill Avenue£188,500 median
- Grasmere Avenue£222,500 median
- Orchard Avenue£240,000 median
- Hawkwell Chase£204,000 median
- Hamilton Gardens£260,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 34 Highams Road4 sales
- 17 Highams Road4 sales
- 26 Highams Road4 sales
- 60 Highams Road3 sales
- 27 Highams Road3 sales
- 5 Highams Road3 sales
- 61 Highams Road3 sales
- 43 Highams Road3 sales
- 46 Highams Road3 sales
- 7 Highams Road3 sales
- 23A Highams Road3 sales
- 71 Highams Road3 sales
- 59 Highams Road3 sales
- 22B Highams Road2 sales
- 41 Highams Road2 sales
- 55A Highams Road2 sales
- 22A Highams Road2 sales
- 23C Highams Road2 sales
- 22 Highams Road2 sales
- 49 Highams Road2 sales
- 45 Highams Road2 sales
- 55 Highams Road2 sales
- 75 Highams Road2 sales
- 57 Highams Road2 sales
Back to Hockley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Highams Road, Hockley?
The median price paid in Highams Road, Hockley across every sale on the register is £385,000. 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 Highams Road, Hockley?
91 sales are on record for Highams Road, Hockley, the most recent completing on 20 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Highams Road, Hockley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +132.4% between 2006 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +64.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Highams Road, Hockley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £670,000, set in 2016. 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 Highams Road, Hockley?
£2,881 per square metre, from the 15 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 20 May 2026. 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, “Highams Road, Hockley 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.