SS3 — Southend-On-Sea
Southend-On-Sea's SS3 postcode sits in Southend-On-Sea. The board behind it is assembled from 15,832 sales over 32 years of actual sales in 5 areas.
Across the recorded period the typical SS3 sale went from £49,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026 — 6.9× growth. If you could time-travel once, aim for just before 2003 — prices moved +23.4% that year. The one to avoid was 2023: the median moved -5.8%, the roughest year in the local record.
Median sold price in SS3
| Year | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | £49,000 | 587 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | 611 |
| 2005 | £159,973 | 508 |
| 2010 | £178,000 | 295 |
| 2015 | £226,500 | 456 |
| 2020 | £299,250 | 412 |
| 2025 | £341,000 | 364 |
| 2026 | £340,000 | 75 |
The areas on the board
5 areas make up the board, weighted by sales activity:
- Shoeburyness (74% of local sales) — busiest streets: High Street, Richmond Avenue, West Road
- Great Wakering (21% of local sales) — busiest streets: High Street, Alexandra Road, Conway Avenue
- Little Wakering (4% of local sales) — busiest streets: Little Wakering Road, Havenside, Barrow Hall Road
- Barling Magna (1% of local sales) — busiest streets: Little Wakering Road, Church Road, Mucking Hall Road
- Foulness Island (0% of local sales) — busiest streets: Church End
Reading about 2003 is easy; surviving 2023 is the game. Play the SS3 board.
Local business? Put your name on the SS3 board — one sponsor per postcode.
Prices are medians of real Land Registry sales. Street lists show street names only — never individual addresses. New to the game? Start with how to play.