Browning Drive, Wickford house prices are built from 112 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £147,750. Across the 11 years from 2011 to 2022 the median moved +88.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.7%.
Median price paid
£147,750
Change in cash, 2011–2022
+88.8%
Change in real terms
+42.7%
Median per m²
£2,598
HM Land Registry112 sales52 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Browning Drive, Wickford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Browning Drive, Wickford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2022. 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 | 5 | £143,475 | £261,369 |
| 2010s | 4 | £155,000 | £218,550 |
| 2020s | 1 | £252,000 | £257,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for Browning Drive, Wickford is £252,000 in 2022; the lowest is £133,500 in 2011. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £133,995 to £252,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £253,261, so the real change over the whole record is +15.3% — about +0.75% 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: +88.8% in cash against +42.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 27 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 49 | 11 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £242,500 | £247,772 |
| 19 | 4 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 11 | 13 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 51 | 25 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| 16 | 13 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £256,000 | £296,598 |
| 29 | 22 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 11 | 1 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £252,000 | £291,964 |
| 22 | 13 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| 18 | 26 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 24 | 10 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 19 | 9 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 21 | 19 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 51 | 18 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £285,139 |
| 45 | 8 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £268,135 |
| 43 | 8 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £274,675 |
| 53 | 7 Dec 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 15 | 1 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £299,858 |
| 18 | 23 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £226,000 | £301,191 |
| 3 | 6 Oct 2017 | Detached | £235,000 | £319,836 |
| 19 | 12 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £224,995 | £306,219 |
| 37 | 5 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £306,226 |
| 55 | 1 Mar 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £272,201 |
| 24 | 12 Dec 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £293,168 |
| 49 | 21 Oct 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £279,208 |
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 Browning Drive, Wickford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Browning Drive | £137,995 (2003) | £220,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.7% |
| 49 Browning Drive | £129,995 (2003) | £242,500 (2025) | +2.9% | +0.0% |
| 19 Browning Drive | £140,995 (2003) | £255,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 11 Browning Drive | £132,595 (2003) | £225,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 51 Browning Drive | £134,995 (2003) | £255,000 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| 16 Browning Drive | £123,000 (2003) | £256,000 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 29 Browning Drive | £139,995 (2003) | £240,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.3% |
| 22 Browning Drive | £125,000 (2003) | £235,000 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 18 Browning Drive | £148,000 (2004) | £235,000 (2021) | +2.8% | +0.5% |
| 24 Browning Drive | £123,995 (2003) | £220,000 (2021) | +3.2% | +1.0% |
| 21 Browning Drive | £136,995 (2003) | £220,000 (2021) | +2.7% | +0.4% |
| 45 Browning Drive | £134,995 (2003) | £205,000 (2019) | +2.6% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Browning Drive, Wickford 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 | 103 | 92.0% | £146,500 | £121,995 – £256,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 4.5% | £265,000 | £235,000 – £280,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 3.6% | £224,000 | £185,000 – £309,995 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Browning Drive, Wickford
103 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9 freehold — 92.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £146,500 and the median freehold sale £262,000 — a gap of +78.8%. 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 | 103 | 92.0% | £146,500 |
| Freehold | 9 | 8.0% | £262,000 |
| New build | 32 | 28.6% | £133,495 |
| Existing home | 80 | 71.4% | £156,998 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -15.0%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Browning Drive, Wickford
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 £147,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.50% 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 SS12, 180 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 47 violent, 9 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 47 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 0.96 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 Browning Drive, Wickford
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.
6 state and independent schools have a SS12 postcode: 5 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 Bromfords School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,181 |
| Wickford Primary School | Primary | Community school | 472 |
| Abacus Primary School | Primary | Community school | 413 |
| Oakfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 391 |
| Grange Primary School | Primary | Community school | 311 |
| North Crescent Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 216 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wickford Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Battlesbridge Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Pitsea Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
| Rayleigh Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Browning Drive, Wickford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Browning Drive, Wickford sits below that national figure — -6.2%.
Within Wickford the street ranks 390 of 457 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £189,000 (-21.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,598 per square metre, across 52 of the 112 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 £121,995 to £309,995. 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.
Browning Drive, Wickford 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
- London Road£222,000 median
- Maitland Road£120,000 median
- Nevendon Road£221,250 median
- Kingsley Meadows£175,498 median
- Melville Drive£129,995 median
- Horkesley Way£139,500 median
- Pebmarsh Drive£158,087 median
- Muir Place£182,000 median
- Carlyle Gardens£137,610 median
- Mersea Crescent£186,500 median
- Roding Way£165,000 median
- Foxhatch£156,000 median
- Elder Avenue£219,995 median
- Grange Avenue£220,500 median
- Doeshill Drive£156,750 median
- Broad Oaks£147,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 49 Browning Drive8 sales
- 19 Browning Drive6 sales
- 11 Browning Drive6 sales
- 16 Browning Drive6 sales
- 21 Browning Drive6 sales
- 51 Browning Drive5 sales
- 24 Browning Drive5 sales
- 45 Browning Drive5 sales
- 22 Browning Drive4 sales
- 18 Browning Drive4 sales
- 15 Browning Drive4 sales
- 37 Browning Drive4 sales
- 39 Browning Drive4 sales
- 29 Browning Drive3 sales
- 3 Browning Drive3 sales
- 55 Browning Drive3 sales
- 7 Browning Drive3 sales
- 20 Browning Drive3 sales
- 35 Browning Drive3 sales
- 25 Browning Drive3 sales
- 59 Browning Drive3 sales
- 33 Browning Drive3 sales
- 23 Browning Drive2 sales
- 43 Browning Drive2 sales
Back to Wickford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Browning Drive, Wickford?
The median price paid in Browning Drive, Wickford across every sale on the register is £147,750. 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 Browning Drive, Wickford?
112 sales are on record for Browning Drive, Wickford, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Browning Drive, Wickford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +88.8% between 2011 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Browning Drive, Wickford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £252,000, 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 Browning Drive, Wickford?
£2,598 per square metre, from the 52 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 27 Mar 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, “Browning Drive, Wickford 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.