Purleigh Road, Rayleigh house prices are built from 95 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £205,000. Across the 16 years from 2007 to 2023 the median moved +44.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.4%.
Median price paid
£205,000
Change in cash, 2007–2023
+44.2%
Change in real terms
-10.4%
Median per m²
£3,072
HM Land Registry95 sales26 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2025
Section 01
How Purleigh Road, Rayleigh prices moved
The chart tracks the median Purleigh Road, Rayleigh house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2023. 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 | £151,000 | £275,078 |
| 2010s | 3 | £285,000 | £401,850 |
| 2020s | 2 | £323,000 | £330,022 |
The highest yearly median on record for Purleigh Road, Rayleigh is £372,500 in 2022; the lowest is £151,000 in 2003. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £151,000 to £323,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £285,402, so the real change over the whole record is +22.3% — about +1.01% 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: +44.2% in cash against -10.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 16 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 25 | 13 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| 5 | 14 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 9 | 26 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £489,291 |
| 57 | 8 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £323,000 | £348,989 |
| 55 | 1 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £470,000 |
| 71 | 2 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £301,000 | £325,218 |
| 69 | 6 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 28 | 23 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £405,172 |
| 16 | 18 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £446,056 |
| 67 | 15 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £359,000 | £415,933 |
| 31 | 14 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £367,500 | £425,781 |
| 44 | 28 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £377,500 | £437,366 |
| 10 | 18 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £590,879 |
| 3 | 23 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 23 | 4 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £332,000 | £384,651 |
| 34 | 28 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £412,000 | £477,338 |
| 42 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £429,570 |
| 16 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £397,984 |
| 25 | 30 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £342,500 | £432,728 |
| 34 | 22 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £329,000 | £415,672 |
| 61 | 17 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £328,000 | £424,683 |
| 9 | 24 Sep 2018 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £379,820 |
| 59 | 3 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £406,474 |
| 55 | 30 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £473,110 |
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 Purleigh Road, Rayleigh values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 Purleigh Road | £68,000 (1997) | £375,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 25 Purleigh Road | £111,000 (2002) | £425,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.4% |
| 9 Purleigh Road | £285,000 (2018) | £465,000 (2024) | +8.5% | +4.3% |
| 57 Purleigh Road | £70,500 (1997) | £323,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 55 Purleigh Road | £210,000 (2006) | £435,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 71 Purleigh Road | £49,995 (1997) | £301,000 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.4% |
| 28 Purleigh Road | £64,500 (1998) | £375,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| 16 Purleigh Road | £50,500 (1996) | £385,000 (2022) | +8.1% | +5.5% |
| 67 Purleigh Road | £65,000 (1998) | £359,000 (2022) | +7.4% | +4.8% |
| 44 Purleigh Road | £280,000 (2016) | £377,500 (2022) | +5.1% | +1.9% |
| 10 Purleigh Road | £305,000 (2015) | £510,000 (2022) | +7.6% | +4.6% |
| 3 Purleigh Road | £47,000 (1995) | £325,000 (2022) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Purleigh Road, Rayleigh 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 | 92 | 96.8% | £202,000 | £47,000 – £510,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 2.1% | £165,000 | £165,000 – £325,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.1% | £285,000 | £285,000 – £285,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Purleigh Road, Rayleigh
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 95 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 | 95 | 100.0% | £205,000 |
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 Purleigh Road, Rayleigh
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 £205,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.29% 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 SS6, 145 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 3 burglary, 16 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 187,571 residents the 2021 census counted in Basildon, that is 0.77 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 Purleigh Road, Rayleigh
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.
10 state and independent schools have a SS6 postcode: 8 primary, 2 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 FitzWimarc School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,770 |
| The Sweyne Park School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,429 |
| Grove Wood Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 630 |
| Rayleigh Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 463 |
| Edward Francis Primary School | Primary | Community school | 423 |
| Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 420 |
| Glebe Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 403 |
| Down Hall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 272 |
| Wyburns Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 187 |
| St Nicholas Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 141 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Rayleigh Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Hockley Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Battlesbridge Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Leigh-on-Sea Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Purleigh Road, Rayleigh compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Purleigh Road, Rayleigh sits above that national figure — +30.2%.
Within Rayleigh the street ranks 259 of 386 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £215,000 (-4.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,072 per square metre, across 26 of the 95 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 £47,000 to £510,000. 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.
Purleigh Road, Rayleigh 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
- Eastwood Road£250,000 median
- Langham Drive£163,000 median
- Kestrel Grove£173,000 median
- Daws Heath Road£250,000 median
- Down Hall Road£212,000 median
- Downhall Park Way£246,000 median
- Hockley Road£214,500 median
- London Road£204,498 median
- Bull Lane£221,500 median
- Grove Road£220,000 median
- Victoria Avenue£254,565 median
- Warwick Road£248,498 median
- Grosvenor Road£168,000 median
- The Chase£240,000 median
- Weir Gardens£201,000 median
- Temple Way£285,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 25 Purleigh Road5 sales
- 55 Purleigh Road5 sales
- 16 Purleigh Road5 sales
- 37 Purleigh Road4 sales
- 67 Purleigh Road4 sales
- 65 Purleigh Road4 sales
- 28 Purleigh Road3 sales
- 44 Purleigh Road3 sales
- 3 Purleigh Road3 sales
- 23 Purleigh Road3 sales
- 22 Purleigh Road3 sales
- 9 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 57 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 71 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 10 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 34 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 61 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 49 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 54 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 39 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 30 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 43 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 48 Purleigh Road2 sales
- 26 Purleigh Road2 sales
Back to Rayleigh house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Purleigh Road, Rayleigh?
The median price paid in Purleigh Road, Rayleigh across every sale on the register is £205,000. 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 Purleigh Road, Rayleigh?
95 sales are on record for Purleigh Road, Rayleigh, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Purleigh Road, Rayleigh house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +44.2% between 2007 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Purleigh Road, Rayleigh house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £372,500, 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 Purleigh Road, Rayleigh?
£3,072 per square metre, from the 26 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 16 Jan 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, “Purleigh Road, Rayleigh 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.