High Street, Southend-on-sea house prices are built from 934 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +79.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +28.7%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+79.7%
Change in real terms
+28.7%
Median per m²
£2,341
HM Land Registry934 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Southend-on-sea prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Southend-on-sea house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | 5 | £56,500 | £125,457 |
| 2000s | 10 | £123,000 | £224,070 |
| 2010s | 10 | £163,250 | £230,183 |
| 2020s | 7 | £235,000 | £240,109 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Southend-on-sea is £315,000 in 2022; the lowest is £37,800 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £41,000 to £292,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £91,039, so the real change over the whole record is +220.7% — about +3.83% 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: +79.7% in cash against +28.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 313 | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £357,500 | £357,500 |
| 80 | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 170 | 27 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £292,000 | £292,000 |
| 272 | 14 Apr 2026 | Detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| Flat 4 the Mallards, 236 | 10 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 138 | 2 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £188,000 | £188,000 |
| 11a | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £208,000 | £208,000 |
| 123 | 22 Dec 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 141 | 22 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 4 | 28 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £266,000 | £271,783 |
| 17 | 25 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £860,000 | £878,696 |
| Flat 42 the Mallards, 236 | 7 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £155,304 |
| 189b | 26 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £355,000 | £362,717 |
| Flat 37 the Mallards, 236 | 25 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 5 Red Lion Court | 8 Jul 2025 | Detached | £555,000 | £567,065 |
| Flat 12 the Mallards, 236 | 16 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 23 | 13 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| 78 | 23 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Flat 2 Olivia Heights, 54 | 24 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £202,000 | £206,391 |
| Flat 27 the Mallards, 236 | 21 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 7 | 19 Mar 2025 | Detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 119 | 5 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £155,304 |
| Flat 20 the Mallards, 236 | 12 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| Flat 7 Mariner House, 157 | 16 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Flat 18 the Mallards, 236 | 7 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £156,326 |
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 High Street, Southend-on-sea values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 High Street | £58,995 (1998) | £300,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 170 High Street | £188,000 (2018) | £292,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +1.9% |
| 272 High Street | £205,000 (2006) | £400,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 4 the MALLARDS, 236 High Street | £42,750 (1995) | £145,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.4% |
| 138 High Street | £44,500 (2000) | £188,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 11A High Street | £38,000 (1999) | £208,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 141 High Street | £89,995 (1998) | £200,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 123 High Street | £55,500 (2002) | £350,000 (2025) | +8.3% | +5.4% |
| 4 High Street | £72,995 (2002) | £266,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 17 High Street | £485,000 (2014) | £860,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.1% |
| FLAT 42 the MALLARDS, 236 High Street | £37,800 (1996) | £152,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 37 the MALLARDS, 236 High Street | £140,000 (2010) | £180,000 (2025) | +1.7% | -1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Southend-on-sea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 447 | 47.9% | £107,000 | £11,000 – £825,000 |
| Semi-detached | 231 | 24.7% | £178,500 | £7,000 – £860,000 |
| Terraced | 169 | 18.1% | £135,000 | £3,000 – £580,000 |
| Detached | 87 | 9.3% | £237,000 | £32,500 – £2,600,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Southend-on-sea
463 of the sales on record are leasehold and 471 freehold — 49.6% 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 £106,000 and the median freehold sale £172,500 — a gap of +62.7%. 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 | 463 | 49.6% | £106,000 |
| Freehold | 471 | 50.4% | £172,500 |
| New build | 55 | 5.9% | £45,000 |
| Existing home | 879 | 94.1% | £130,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -65.4%. 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 133 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 High Street, Southend-on-sea
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 £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.45% 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 SS3, 164 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 82 violent, 6 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 19 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 85,661 residents the 2021 census counted in Rochford, that is 1.91 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 High Street, Southend-on-sea
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.
8 state and independent schools have a SS3 postcode: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoeburyness High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,713 |
| Friars Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| Thorpedene Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 421 |
| Great Wakering Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 412 |
| Richmond Avenue Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| Hinguar Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 261 |
| St George's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 209 |
| Barling Magna Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 167 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Shoeburyness Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Thorpe Bay Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Southend East Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Southend Victoria Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Southend-on-sea compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Southend-on-sea sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
Within Southend-on-sea the street ranks 502 of 676 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £154,000 (-18.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,341 per square metre, across 53 of the 934 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 £3,000 to £2,600,000. 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.
High Street, Southend-on-sea 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
- Little Wakering Road£200,000 median
- Shoebury Road£220,000 median
- West Road£105,000 median
- Richmond Avenue£122,500 median
- Church Road£250,000 median
- Wakering Road£165,500 median
- Caulfield Road£168,000 median
- Ness Road£140,500 median
- Conway Avenue£180,000 median
- Bishopsteignton£310,000 median
- Horseshoe Crescent£230,000 median
- Frobisher Way£81,000 median
- Wakering Avenue£135,000 median
- Churchfields£153,750 median
- The Drakes£102,500 median
- St Andrews Road£175,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 141 High Street13 sales
- 172 High Street10 sales
- 72 High Street9 sales
- 128A High Street8 sales
- 164 High Street8 sales
- 153A High Street7 sales
- 168 High Street7 sales
- 112 High Street7 sales
- 76 High Street7 sales
- 78 High Street6 sales
- 160 High Street6 sales
- 176 High Street6 sales
- 47 High Street6 sales
- 38 High Street6 sales
- 151 High Street6 sales
- FLAT 2, 10 High Street6 sales
- 152 High Street6 sales
- 26A High Street6 sales
- 80 High Street5 sales
- 11A High Street5 sales
- 123 High Street5 sales
- 119 High Street5 sales
- 121 High Street5 sales
- FLAT 14, the MALLARDS, 236 High Street5 sales
Back to Southend-on-sea house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Southend-on-sea?
The median price paid in High Street, Southend-on-sea across every sale on the register is £125,000. 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 High Street, Southend-on-sea?
934 sales are on record for High Street, Southend-on-sea, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Southend-on-sea house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +79.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +28.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Southend-on-sea house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £315,000, 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 High Street, Southend-on-sea?
£2,341 per square metre, from the 53 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 1 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, “High Street, Southend-on-sea 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.