That is the middle of 1,506 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
1,506 homes sold in three years: 505 detached houses, 673 semi-detached houses, 146 terraced houses and 182 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£535K
median sale · 505 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£463K–£630K
Last 12 months
£530K129 sold
New build
£585K
Semi-detached houses£405K
median sale · 673 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£362K–£445K
Last 12 months
£413K178 sold
New build
£420K
Terraced houses£351K
median sale · 146 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£325K–£400K
Last 12 months
£340K45 sold
New build
£385K
Flats and maisonettes£219K
median sale · 182 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£183K–£252K
Last 12 months
£220K46 sold
New build
£215K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 45% of sales
Detached houses34%
Semi-detached houses45%
Terraced houses10%
Flats and maisonettes12%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Rayleigh’s homes sold for between £350K and £508K
One sale in ten was under £260K and one in ten over £617K. 9% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £417,500, sits in the £400–500K band
1,506 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.5 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £65,000 in 1995 to £419,700 in the last 12 months (£350,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
398 sales in the last 12 months, against 920 in 1999, the busiest year, and 391 in 2008. Sales fell by 46% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 72% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Rayleigh costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Rayleigh, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£95K
£148K
£273K
£320K
£370K
£480K
£530K
Semi-detached houses
£61K
£97K
£195K
£215K
£270K
£346K
£413K
Terraced houses
£56K
£86K
£170K
£186K
£245K
£305K
£340K
Flats and maisonettes
£39K
£77K
£149K
£145K
£167K
£207K
£220K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
2,022 new homes have been sold in Rayleigh since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 1999.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £525,523
against £412,500 for a home sold on, 27% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.6% sold leasehold in Rayleigh. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Eastwood Road is Rayleigh’s busiest street, with 35 sales in three years
102 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 42 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Eastwood Road
SS6
35
£420,000
Mixed
2
Castle Road
SS6
28
£222,500
Mostly flats · new builds
3
Daniels Close
SS6
24
£577,500
Mostly detached houses · new builds
4
London Road
SS6
24
£425,000
Mixed
5
Warwick Road
SS6
23
£415,000
Mixed
6
Bull Lane
SS6
21
£410,000
Mixed
7
Crown Hill
SS6
21
£270,000
Mostly flats
8
Hockley Road
SS6
19
£275,000
Mixed
9
King Georges Close
SS6
19
£180,000
Mostly flats
10
Langley Mews
SS6
18
£584,995
Mostly detached houses · new builds
11
Downhall Park Way
SS6
18
£545,000
Mostly detached houses
12
Raven Way
SS5
17
£589,995
Mostly detached houses · new builds
13
The Chase
SS6
16
£425,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Weir Gardens
SS6
16
£408,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Cheapside West
SS6
16
£405,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Great Wheatley Road: £1,060,000
Rayleigh median£418K
Great Wheatley Road£1.1M
Claremont Crescent£650K
Victoria Avenue£650K
Victoria Road£640K
Lancaster Road£600K
Cheapest streets
Sheriton Square: £162,500
Rayleigh median£418K
Sheriton Square£163K
Bellingham Lane£163K
King Georges Close£180K
Websters Way£198K
Hilltop Close£208K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 6.5 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Essex
Rayleigh is the 30th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Rayleigh is in the middle of Essex’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Rayleigh
What is the average house price in Rayleigh?
The median home in Rayleigh sold for £417,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,506 standard sales (£419,700 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £535,000, semi-detached houses £405,000, terraced houses £351,250 and flats and maisonettes £219,000.
Are house prices going up in Rayleigh?
The median was £425,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£415,000), and £419,700 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Rayleigh each year?
398 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 563 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Rayleigh?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Great Wheatley Road (SS6, £1,060,000), Claremont Crescent (SS6, £650,000) and Victoria Avenue (SS6, £650,000).
How much does a new build cost in Rayleigh?
New homes sold for a median £525,523 over three years, against £412,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 8.8% of sales.
Is Rayleigh expensive for Essex?
Rayleigh is the 30th most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Essex by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.