Romsey Close, Hockley house prices are built from 82 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 17 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £136,000. Across the 22 years from 2002 to 2024 the median moved +165.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +44.6%.
Median price paid
£136,000
Change in cash, 2002–2024
+165.0%
Change in real terms
+44.6%
Median per m²
£3,390
HM Land Registry82 sales17 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Romsey Close, Hockley prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Romsey Close, Hockley to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 17 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £263,750 | £269,484 |
| 19 | 30 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 6 | 7 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £366,000 | £373,957 |
| 32 | 17 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 25 | 19 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| 24 | 8 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 22 | 15 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 17 | 12 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £126,000 | £132,582 |
| 36 | 30 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 20 | 17 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £311,000 | £360,320 |
| 30 | 14 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 27 | 20 Sep 2021 | Detached | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| 4 | 20 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 25 | 9 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £108,500 | £137,083 |
| 10 | 12 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 14 | 11 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £283,000 | £370,158 |
| 27 | 31 Aug 2018 | Detached | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| 36 | 24 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £379,820 |
| 1 | 20 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £421,911 |
| 34 | 24 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £290,000 | £394,691 |
| 26 | 11 Sep 2017 | Terraced | £280,000 | £381,081 |
| 14 | 30 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £250,000 | £349,010 |
| 7 | 25 Sep 2015 | Semi-detached | £239,995 | £338,393 |
| 1 | 29 Oct 2014 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £344,252 |
| 36 | 12 Aug 2014 | Semi-detached | £214,000 | £306,958 |
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 Romsey Close, Hockley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Romsey Close | £46,000 (1997) | £263,750 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 19 Romsey Close | £81,000 (2006) | £100,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 6 Romsey Close | £59,995 (1995) | £366,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 25 Romsey Close | £108,500 (2021) | £130,000 (2024) | +6.2% | -0.1% |
| 24 Romsey Close | £100,000 (2002) | £280,000 (2024) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
| 22 Romsey Close | £70,495 (1999) | £265,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 17 Romsey Close | £23,000 (1997) | £126,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 36 Romsey Close | £200,000 (2007) | £340,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.3% |
| 20 Romsey Close | £45,500 (1996) | £311,000 (2022) | +7.7% | +5.1% |
| 30 Romsey Close | £58,000 (1997) | £275,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 27 Romsey Close | £385,000 (2018) | £415,000 (2021) | +2.5% | +0.7% |
| 14 Romsey Close | £62,000 (1998) | £283,000 (2019) | +7.5% | +5.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Romsey Close, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 45 | 54.9% | £158,000 | £45,500 – £366,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 16 | 19.5% | £58,000 | £16,500 – £130,000 |
| Terraced | 16 | 19.5% | £165,000 | £45,500 – £290,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 6.1% | £195,000 | £44,000 – £415,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Romsey Close, Hockley
16 of the sales on record are leasehold and 66 freehold — 19.5% 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 £59,750 and the median freehold sale £166,250 — a gap of +178.2%. 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 | 16 | 19.5% | £59,750 |
| Freehold | 66 | 80.5% | £166,250 |
Section 07
Living in Romsey Close, 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 £136,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.44% 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 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 Romsey Close, 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 Romsey Close, Hockley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Romsey Close, Hockley sits below that national figure — -13.7%.
Within Hockley the street ranks 260 of 263 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £241,000 (-43.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,390 per square metre, across 17 of the 82 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 £16,500 to £415,000. 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.
Romsey Close, 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
- 4 Romsey Close7 sales
- 14 Romsey Close5 sales
- 24 Romsey Close4 sales
- 22 Romsey Close4 sales
- 36 Romsey Close4 sales
- 34 Romsey Close4 sales
- 6 Romsey Close3 sales
- 17 Romsey Close3 sales
- 20 Romsey Close3 sales
- 7 Romsey Close3 sales
- 38 Romsey Close3 sales
- 23 Romsey Close3 sales
- 11 Romsey Close3 sales
- 18 Romsey Close3 sales
- 19 Romsey Close2 sales
- 25 Romsey Close2 sales
- 30 Romsey Close2 sales
- 27 Romsey Close2 sales
- 1 Romsey Close2 sales
- 26 Romsey Close2 sales
- 2 Romsey Close2 sales
- 3 Romsey Close2 sales
- 28 Romsey Close2 sales
- 15 Romsey Close2 sales
Back to Hockley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Romsey Close, Hockley?
The median price paid in Romsey Close, Hockley across every sale on the register is £136,000. 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 Romsey Close, Hockley?
82 sales are on record for Romsey Close, Hockley, the most recent completing on 17 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Romsey Close, Hockley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +165.0% between 2002 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +44.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Romsey Close, Hockley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £265,000, set in 2024. 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 Romsey Close, Hockley?
£3,390 per square metre, from the 17 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 17 Jul 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, “Romsey Close, 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.