That is the middle of 658 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 7.3 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.
658 homes sold in three years: 153 detached houses, 316 semi-detached houses, 70 terraced houses and 119 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£510K
median sale · 153 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£425K–£572K
Last 12 months
£473K40 sold
New build
£535K
Semi-detached houses£365K
median sale · 316 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£330K–£400K
Last 12 months
£365K89 sold
New build
£400K
Terraced houses£316K
median sale · 70 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£288K–£355K
Last 12 months
£347K11 sold
Flats and maisonettes£160K
median sale · 119 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£125K–£185K
Last 12 months
£164K33 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 48% of sales
Detached houses23%
Semi-detached houses48%
Terraced houses11%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Rochford’s homes sold for between £290K and £425K
One sale in ten was under £165K and one in ten over £533K. 19% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £360,000, sits in the £300–400K band
658 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,000 in 1995 to £360,000 in the last 12 months (£296,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
173 sales in the last 12 months, against 375 in 2007, the busiest year, and 138 in 2011. Sales fell by 62% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Rochford costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Rochford, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£64K
£127K
£237K
£238K
£335K
£443K
£473K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£84K
£171K
£189K
£240K
£308K
£365K
Terraced houses
£46K
£77K
£160K
£170K
£215K
£287K
£347K
Flats and maisonettes
£32K
£44K
£105K
£124K
£137K
£153K
£164K
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
9% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
1,008 new homes have been sold in Rochford since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2018.
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 £425,000
against £340,000 for a home sold on, 25% 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.
18% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.4% sold leasehold in Rochford. 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
Ashingdon Road is Rochford’s busiest street, with 35 sales in three years
48 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 19 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
Ashingdon Road
SS4
35
£315,000
Mixed
2
Grebe Drive
SS4
31
£425,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
3
Roche Close
SS4
23
£170,000
Mostly flats
4
Sanderling Gardens
SS4
22
£512,500
Mixed · new builds
5
Lesney Gardens
SS4
21
£138,000
Mostly flats
6
Dunlin Mews
SS4
17
£460,000
Mixed · new builds
7
Bittern Lane
SS4
17
£395,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
8
Southend Road
SS4
17
£350,000
Mixed
9
Parklands
SS4
17
£280,000
Mixed
10
Stambridge Road
SS4
15
£300,000
Mixed
11
Elizabeth Gardens
SS4
14
£485,000
Mixed
12
Rochford Garden Way
SS4
14
£346,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Plover Court
SS4
13
£450,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
14
Oxford Road
SS4
13
£355,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
East Street
SS4
11
£195,000
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Hall Road: £1,450,000
Rochford median£360K
Hall Road£1.5M
Shetland Crescent£550K
Sanderling Gardens£513K
Pintail Drive£488K
Elizabeth Gardens£485K
Cheapest streets
The Garners: £121,500
Rochford median£360K
The Garners£122K
Lesney Gardens£138K
Roche Close£170K
Hedingham Place£178K
East Street£195K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 11.9 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
Rochford is the 48th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Rochford 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 Rochford
What is the average house price in Rochford?
The median home in Rochford sold for £360,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 658 standard sales (£360,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £510,000, semi-detached houses £365,000, terraced houses £316,250 and flats and maisonettes £160,000.
Are house prices going up in Rochford?
The median was £368,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£355,000), and £360,000 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 Rochford each year?
173 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 236 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Rochford?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Hall Road (SS4, £1,450,000), Shetland Crescent (SS4, £550,000) and Sanderling Gardens (SS4, £512,500).
How much does a new build cost in Rochford?
New homes sold for a median £425,000 over three years, against £340,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 18% of sales.
Is Rochford expensive for Essex?
Rochford is the 47th 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.
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