Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea house prices are built from 217 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +70.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.3%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+70.3%
Change in real terms
+21.3%
Median per m²
£1,854
HM Land Registry217 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 20 May 2026
Section 01
How Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £41,000 | £91,039 |
| 2000s | 9 | £110,000 | £200,388 |
| 2010s | 4 | £138,000 | £194,580 |
| 2020s | 4 | £253,500 | £259,011 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea is £298,000 in 2024; the lowest is £39,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £39,000 to £235,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,598, so the real change over the whole record is +177.3% — about +3.46% 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: +70.3% in cash against +21.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 60 | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 245 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £217,000 | £217,000 |
| 116 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £312,000 | £318,783 |
| 102 | 6 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 76 | 29 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 44 | 3 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £208,000 | £212,522 |
| 127 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 10a | 28 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 202 | 13 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £308,000 | £324,090 |
| 251 | 31 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 138 | 29 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £185,194 |
| 253 | 26 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £342,500 | £360,392 |
| 38 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 150 | 21 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £298,000 | £313,567 |
| 8b | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 81 | 6 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £356,552 |
| 184 | 9 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £287,000 | £332,514 |
| 12b | 7 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 40 | 9 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 272 | 5 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £216,000 | £250,255 |
| 300 | 10 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 210 | 30 May 2022 | Terraced | £307,500 | £356,265 |
| 52 | 11 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £381,000 | £441,422 |
| 162 | 25 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £282,000 | £326,721 |
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 Rochford Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 Rochford Road | £181,500 (2007) | £375,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 60 Rochford Road | £165,000 (2009) | £425,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.7% |
| 245 Rochford Road | £100,000 (2013) | £217,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.1% |
| 116 Rochford Road | £76,950 (2000) | £312,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 102 Rochford Road | £285,000 (2019) | £365,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +0.0% |
| 76 Rochford Road | £75,000 (2002) | £235,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 44 Rochford Road | £215,000 (2006) | £208,000 (2025) | -0.2% | -3.0% |
| 127 Rochford Road | £185,000 (2019) | £235,000 (2025) | +4.1% | -0.1% |
| 202 Rochford Road | £190,000 (2021) | £308,000 (2024) | +17.5% | +10.5% |
| 138 Rochford Road | £102,000 (2008) | £176,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 253 Rochford Road | £235,000 (2016) | £342,500 (2024) | +4.8% | +1.2% |
| 38 Rochford Road | £178,000 (2007) | £365,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rochford Road, 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 | 95 | 43.8% | £105,000 | £14,000 – £235,000 |
| Semi-detached | 59 | 27.2% | £181,500 | £22,500 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 57 | 26.3% | £145,000 | £38,000 – £342,500 |
| Detached | 6 | 2.8% | £155,000 | £130,000 – £250,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea
104 of the sales on record are leasehold and 113 freehold — 47.9% 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 £104,250 and the median freehold sale £165,000 — a gap of +58.3%. 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 | 104 | 47.9% | £104,250 |
| Freehold | 113 | 52.1% | £165,000 |
| New build | 2 | 0.9% | £97,500 |
| Existing home | 215 | 99.1% | £125,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -22.0%. 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 21 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 Rochford Road, 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 SS2, 765 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 326 violent, 18 burglary, 26 vehicle-related and 96 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.6 times busier.
Against the 85,661 residents the 2021 census counted in Rochford, that is 8.93 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 Rochford Road, 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 SS2 postcode: 5 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southend High School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,312 |
| Cecil Jones Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,159 |
| Southchurch High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 722 |
| Temple Sutton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 619 |
| St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 611 |
| Hamstel Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 583 |
| Bournemouth Park Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 534 |
| Hamstel Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Prittlewell Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Southend Victoria Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Southend Central Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Southend East Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
Section 09
How Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rochford Road, 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 £1,854 per square metre, across 48 of the 217 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 £14,000 to £425,000. 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.
Rochford Road, 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
- Victoria Avenue£187,500 median
- Bournemouth Park Road£135,000 median
- Central Avenue£125,000 median
- Sutton Road£140,000 median
- South Avenue£141,600 median
- North Avenue£140,000 median
- Hamstel Road£125,000 median
- Trinity Road£150,000 median
- Southchurch Boulevard£288,750 median
- Manners Way£185,000 median
- Lonsdale Road£124,000 median
- Station Avenue£138,000 median
- North Crescent£169,000 median
- Boscombe Road£128,000 median
- Thornford Gardens£169,500 median
- Wimborne Road£111,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 74 Rochford Road6 sales
- 153 Rochford Road6 sales
- 76 Rochford Road5 sales
- 104 Rochford Road4 sales
- 292 Rochford Road4 sales
- 136 Rochford Road4 sales
- 276 Rochford Road4 sales
- 306 Rochford Road4 sales
- 147 Rochford Road4 sales
- 135 Rochford Road4 sales
- 116 Rochford Road3 sales
- 81 Rochford Road3 sales
- 184 Rochford Road3 sales
- 300 Rochford Road3 sales
- 210 Rochford Road3 sales
- 265 Rochford Road3 sales
- 266 Rochford Road3 sales
- 50 Rochford Road3 sales
- 64 Rochford Road3 sales
- 218 Rochford Road3 sales
- 165 Rochford Road3 sales
- 18A Rochford Road3 sales
- 24 Rochford Road3 sales
- 14B Rochford Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea?
The median price paid in Rochford Road, 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 Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea?
217 sales are on record for Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea, 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 Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +70.3% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £298,000, 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 Rochford Road, Southend-on-sea?
£1,854 per square metre, from the 48 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, “Rochford Road, 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.