The Drive, Rochford house prices are built from 114 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,500. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +104.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +68.5%.
Median price paid
£158,500
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+104.4%
Change in real terms
+68.5%
Median per m²
£1,671
HM Land Registry114 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Apr 2026
Section 01
How The Drive, Rochford prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Drive, Rochford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £43,500 | £96,591 |
| 2000s | 4 | £81,498 | £148,464 |
| 2010s | 2 | £157,500 | £222,075 |
| 2020s | 1 | £322,000 | £329,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Drive, Rochford is £322,000 in 2021; the lowest is £43,500 in 1995. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £43,500 to £322,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £96,591, so the real change over the whole record is +321.2% — about +5.69% 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: +104.4% in cash against +68.5% 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 | 13 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 85 | 23 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 99 | 14 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 54 | 20 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £362,717 |
| 59c | 14 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £178,000 | £181,870 |
| 67 | 6 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 39 | 28 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £410,373 |
| 94 | 19 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £358,000 | £376,701 |
| 43 | 10 May 2024 | Terraced | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 56 | 18 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £394,368 |
| 112 | 26 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £382,500 | £413,276 |
| 16 | 13 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| 88 | 17 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 78 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 47 | 10 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £312,500 | £362,058 |
| 57 | 4 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 21 | 26 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £331,000 | £418,199 |
| 30 | 30 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £262,500 | £331,653 |
| 9 | 1 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £322,000 | £406,828 |
| 1 | 15 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £332,500 | £420,094 |
| 31 | 26 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £297,000 | £375,242 |
| 32 | 12 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £356,061 |
| 59c | 24 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £142,000 | £183,857 |
| 17 | 3 Apr 2020 | Terraced | £251,000 | £324,986 |
| 67 | 25 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £359,694 |
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 The Drive, Rochford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85 the Drive | £74,000 (2001) | £330,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
| 99 the Drive | £45,000 (1995) | £360,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 54 the Drive | £280,000 (2018) | £355,000 (2025) | +3.4% | -0.4% |
| 59C the Drive | £142,000 (2020) | £178,000 (2025) | +4.6% | -0.2% |
| 67 the Drive | £80,000 (2007) | £360,000 (2025) | +8.7% | +5.6% |
| 39 the Drive | £148,750 (2009) | £390,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.5% |
| 94 the Drive | £63,160 (1998) | £358,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 43 the Drive | £170,000 (2007) | £325,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 112 the Drive | £99,000 (2002) | £382,500 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.7% |
| 47 the Drive | £175,000 (2007) | £312,500 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 57 the Drive | £165,500 (2009) | £325,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 21 the Drive | £285,000 (2018) | £331,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Drive, Rochford 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 | 80.7% | £160,000 | £39,000 – £390,000 |
| Terraced | 14 | 12.3% | £134,000 | £38,500 – £331,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 4.4% | £90,000 | £25,000 – £178,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 2.6% | £155,000 | £142,000 – £310,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Drive, Rochford
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 109 freehold — 4.4% 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 £90,000 and the median freehold sale £160,000 — a gap of +77.8%. 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 | 5 | 4.4% | £90,000 |
| Freehold | 109 | 95.6% | £160,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.9% | £80,000 |
| Existing home | 113 | 99.1% | £160,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -50.0%. 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 8 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 The Drive, Rochford
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 £158,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.82% 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 SS4, 79 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 37 violent, 1 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times quieter.
Against the 85,661 residents the 2021 census counted in Rochford, that is 0.92 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 The Drive, Rochford
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.
9 state and independent schools have a SS4 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 King Edmund School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,318 |
| Holt Farm Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 296 |
| Rochford Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 239 |
| Holt Farm Infant School | Primary | Community school | 211 |
| Lift Ashingdon | Primary | Academy converter | 206 |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 196 |
| Canewdon Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 90 |
| Stambridge Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 82 |
| Waterman Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 67 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Rochford Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Southend Airport Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Hockley Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Prittlewell Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How The Drive, Rochford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Drive, Rochford sits above that national figure — +0.6%.
Within Rochford the street ranks 190 of 237 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-14.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,671 per square metre, across 25 of the 114 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 £25,000 to £390,000. 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.
The Drive, Rochford 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
- Ashingdon Road£167,750 median
- Rectory Avenue£195,000 median
- Roche Close£171,505 median
- Stambridge Road£190,000 median
- Lesney Gardens£90,000 median
- Parklands£130,500 median
- Sandon Close£67,350 median
- East Street£115,000 median
- Pollards Close£165,100 median
- Sutton Court Drive£148,500 median
- Rochford Garden Way£144,000 median
- Southend Road£175,000 median
- Sutton Road£155,500 median
- Princess Gardens£210,000 median
- Alexandra Road£217,750 median
- York Road£289,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 99 the Drive4 sales
- 94 the Drive4 sales
- 96 the Drive4 sales
- 87 the Drive4 sales
- 67 the Drive3 sales
- 39 the Drive3 sales
- 31 the Drive3 sales
- 35 the Drive3 sales
- 28 the Drive3 sales
- 76 the Drive3 sales
- 23 the Drive3 sales
- 45 the Drive3 sales
- 95 the Drive3 sales
- 81 the Drive3 sales
- 85 the Drive2 sales
- 54 the Drive2 sales
- 59C the Drive2 sales
- 43 the Drive2 sales
- 112 the Drive2 sales
- 47 the Drive2 sales
- 57 the Drive2 sales
- 21 the Drive2 sales
- 9 the Drive2 sales
- 17 the Drive2 sales
Back to Rochford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Drive, Rochford?
The median price paid in The Drive, Rochford across every sale on the register is £158,500. 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 The Drive, Rochford?
114 sales are on record for The Drive, Rochford, the most recent completing on 13 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Drive, Rochford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +104.4% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +68.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Drive, Rochford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £322,000, set in 2021. 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 The Drive, Rochford?
£1,671 per square metre, from the 25 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 13 Apr 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, “The Drive, Rochford 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.