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Read Close, SS5

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£525,000
all recorded sales
£ per m²
£2,618
from EPC floor areas
Recorded sales
9
Distinct homes
6
Price range
£375,000£790,000
Sales recorded
2006 → 2025
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Read Close is almost entirely detached houses. The median sale price is £525,000, about 29% above the typical SS5 sale. Per square metre of floor space it comes to about £2,618, below the district's £4,084. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; SS5 prices as a whole have held broadly level. HM Land Registry records 9 sales across 6 homes since 2006.

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Read Close prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 9 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianSS5 district trend
£0£200k£400k£600k£800k£1M20102015202020252006: £480,000 median · 2 sales2007: £532,000 median · 1 sale2013: £395,000 median · 2 sales2015: £635,000 median · 1 sale2019: £500,000 median · 1 sale2021: £595,000 median · 1 sale2025: £790,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the SS5 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Read Close compares

Read Close against the SS5 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Read Close£525k · 9*
Main Road£460k · 80
Lower Road£436k · 50
Lowlands Road£427k · 58
Plumberow Avenue£408k · 62
Burnham Road£371k · 56
Rectory Road£365k · 43
Ferry Road£325k · 83
Barnwell Drive£303k · 39
Southend Road£258k · 45

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£525,000
median · all recorded sales
SS5 district
£407,000
median · last 8 years · street +29%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Read Close's £525,000 median sits about 29% above SS5's £407,000; on floor space it runs £2,618/m² against the district's £4,084/m² (-36%).

Street and SS5 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Every recorded sale on Read Close

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
22 Jul 20251 · SS5 4LSDetached£790,000
5 May 20216b · SS5 4LSDetached£595,000
15 Feb 20194 · SS5 4LSDetached£500,000
24 Sept 20153 · SS5 4LSDetached£635,000
10 May 20137 · SS5 4LSDetached£375,000
8 Feb 20131 · SS5 4LSDetached£415,000
31 Jul 20073 · SS5 4LSDetached£532,000
6 Oct 20066b · SS5 4LSDetached£435,000
29 Aug 20062 · SS5 4LSDetached£525,000
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More streets in SS5

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider SS5 area guide.

Main RoadFerry RoadPlumberow AvenueLower RoadSouthend RoadRectory RoadGreensward LaneBurnham RoadBarnwell DriveBroad WalkOrchard AvenueCornhill Avenue
SS5 house prices & area guide →

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.