SS16 5EN
Last sold £85,000 in December 1997
70, Sparrows Herne, Basildon
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 38m — higher than about 60% of homes in Basildon
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Price history in context
- Dec 1997 — £85,000
What this home might be worth today
£386,000
Estimate range £367,000–£405,000
+353.9% since December 1997 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 33 nearby sales within a year · semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Vange Primary School and Nursery 26-min walk
- Kingswood Primary School and Nursery 12-min walk
- Basildon station 14-min walk
- Woodland 1.4km
- The coast (coastline) 2.1km
- Lake 1.7km
- Pond 331m
- Thames And Medway Canal 13.9km
- Vangewick Ditch 1.8km
- Public Park 383m
- Playing Field 146m
- M&S Simply Food 627m
- Sparrows Herne (Adj) 351m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Basildon, 810m away
- 32 min London
- 105 min Cambridge
- 111 min Brighton
- 115 min Oxford
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,690 hours a year — sunnier than 80% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 4% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 107 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 66, Sparrows Herne, Basildon £174,995 · 2003
- 72, Sparrows Herne, Basildon £360,000 · 2017
- 74, Sparrows Herne, Basildon £370,000 · 2017
- 76, Sparrows Herne, Basildon £454,000 · 2025
- 68, Sparrows Herne, Basildon £350,000 · 2018
- 66, Latchetts Shaw, Basildon £252,000 · 2020
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Proposed first floor side dormer. May 2026 source
- Undecided Proposed single-storey rear infill extension, conversion of the existing garage to… Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Retrospective application for self-build replacement dwelling May 2026 source
- Undecided Extension and alteration to existing dwelling to subdivide into 2no. dwellings. Nov 2025 source
- Permitted Part side and part rear single storey extension. Jul 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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