Buy-to-let in Southend-On-Sea

Southend-On-Sea in figures

Gross rental yield

4.3% to 4.8%

By kind of home, across Southend-on-Sea

Entry price, across its towns

£278,000 to £375,500

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+3.9%

UK House Price Index, across Southend-on-Sea

Price move, 10 years

+34.3%

UK House Price Index, across Southend-on-Sea

Population

185,214

Southend-on-Sea, +2.2% growth

• Terraced houses across Southend-on-Sea let for £1,320/mo against a median sale of £332,000 there: 4.8% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,306/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Southend-on-Sea rose 3.9% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +34% over ten years (Southend-on-Sea)
• £17,800 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £278,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Southend-on-Sea)
• 184 homes added across Southend-on-Sea
• Band D £2,265 (Southend-on-Sea)
• 0.8% long-term empty across Southend-on-Sea
• +19% five-year forecast for East of England as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Southend-On-Sea report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Southend-on-Sea moved +34.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index.

Employee jobs across Southend-on-Sea moved +0.0% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

59% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Southend-On-Sea's postcode districts are below band C (33,652 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £278,000 pays £17,800 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, East of England) is a regional figure for East of England as a whole, not a forecast for Southend-on-Sea, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Southend-On-Sea

Each yield is Southend-on-Sea's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Southend-on-Sea as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Southend-On-Sea report

The full report measures Southend-On-Sea from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Southend-On-Sea report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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