The median home in Southminster sells for £325,000
That is the middle of 183 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 7.4 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.
42% of Southminster’s sales are semi-detached houses
183 homes sold in three years: 65 detached houses, 76 semi-detached houses, 24 terraced houses and 18 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£410K
median sale · 65 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£353K–£463K
Last 12 months
£418K12 sold
Semi-detached houses£315K
median sale · 76 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£290K–£345K
Last 12 months
£331K25 sold
Terraced houses£293K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£272K–£330K
Last 12 months
£312K5 sold
Flats and maisonettes£144K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£135K–£170K
Last 12 months
£140K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 42% of sales
Detached houses36%
Semi-detached houses42%
Terraced houses13%
Flats and maisonettes10%
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 Southminster’s homes sold for between £286K and £385K
One sale in ten was under £193K and one in ten over £460K. 14% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £325,000, sits in the £300–400K band
183 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in the last 12 months (£289,995 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
47 sales in the last 12 months, against 157 in 2000, the busiest year, and 39 in 2009. Sales fell by 69% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 51% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Southminster costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Southminster, 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
£81K
£131K
£250K
£247K
£285K
£399K
£418K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£77K
£170K
£180K
£208K
£281K
£331K
Terraced houses
£40K
£65K
£143K
—
£208K
£261K
£312K
Flats and maisonettes
£25K
£33K
£78K
£78K
£98K
£124K
£140K
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
4% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
436 new homes have been sold in Southminster since 1995; the share peaked at 46% in 2015.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.6% sold leasehold in Southminster. 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
Lavender Drive is Southminster’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
14 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Lavender Drive
CM0
12
£440,000
Mostly detached houses
2
Queenborough Road
CM0
11
£280,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Queen Street
CM0
9
£365,000
Mixed
4
Hillside Road
CM0
9
£315,000
Mixed
5
Tattersalls Chase
CM0
9
£135,000
Mostly flats
6
New Moor Crescent
CM0
8
£331,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Cherry Orchard
CM0
7
£299,950
Mixed
8
High Street
CM0
6
£320,000
Mixed
9
Coombe Road
CM0
6
£310,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
Spells Close
CM0
6
£310,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Burnham Road
CM0
6
£297,500
Mostly detached houses
12
Station Road
CM0
6
£260,000
Mixed
13
Princes Avenue
CM0
6
£257,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
North End
CM0
5
£410,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Lavender Drive: £440,000
Southminster median£325K
Lavender Drive£440K
North End£410K
Queen Street£365K
New Moor Crescent£331K
High Street£320K
Cheapest streets
Tattersalls Chase: £135,000
Southminster median£325K
Tattersalls Chase£135K
Princes Avenue£258K
Station Road£260K
Queenborough Road£280K
Burnham Road£298K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.3 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
Southminster is the 65th most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Southminster is one of Essex’s cheapest 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 Southminster
What is the average house price in Southminster?
The median home in Southminster sold for £325,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 183 standard sales (£335,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £410,000, semi-detached houses £315,000, terraced houses £292,500 and flats and maisonettes £144,375.
Are house prices going up in Southminster?
The median was £320,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£315,000), and £335,000 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 Southminster each year?
47 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 82 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Southminster?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Lavender Drive (CM0, £440,000), North End (CM0, £410,000) and Queen Street (CM0, £365,000).
Is Southminster expensive for Essex?
Southminster is the 63rd 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.