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Portsmouth market report PO
The PO (Portsmouth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 505,285 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the PO postcode area (Portsmouth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the PO postcode area (Portsmouth) came in at £297,500, out of 5,775 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £325,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,680 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 505,285 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The PO postcode area centred on Portsmouth covers 34 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where PO sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
PO sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 5,775 registered 2026 sales in PO and the middle price, the median, is £297,500. The mean lands at £325,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in PO
Per square metre, PO homes have averaged around £3,680 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PO 4% above the national figure.
A typical PO home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £297,500 | £297,500 | 5,775 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 12,561 |
| 2024 | £305,000 | £324,278 | 11,817 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 10,716 |
| 2022 | £305,000 | £357,647 | 14,608 |
| 2021 | £286,000 | £362,113 | 17,934 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 12,127 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 13,402 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 14,214 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 15,384 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 15,854 |
| 2015 | £213,000 | £300,969 | 16,200 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 16,430 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 13,703 |
| 2012 | £181,000 | £266,409 | 11,799 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 11,334 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 11,521 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 11,618 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 10,771 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 21,253 |
| 2006 | £170,500 | £295,966 | 21,906 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 16,832 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 20,205 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 19,466 |
| 2002 | £122,500 | £230,483 | 22,817 |
| 2001 | £96,000 | £184,555 | 21,114 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 19,514 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 22,070 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 19,390 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 20,963 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 17,753 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 14,234 |
In cash terms the typical PO home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £297,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 151%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PO median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−2.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.6% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £455,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, PO
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £455,000 | 1,370 | 121,255 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 1,465 | 115,799 |
| Terraced | £268,500 | 1,870 | 165,104 |
| Flats | £160,000 | 1,070 | 103,127 |
Sales activity in PO
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 10,071 PO sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 20,388 sales a year before the financial crisis and 11,095 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around PO
The local authority for PO is Isle of Wight, the local authority covering most of the PO area (parts fall under Portsmouth and Chichester, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £946 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £659 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,508, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Isle of Wight
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£946 a month is £11,352 a year, which against the £297,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market PO is
Turnover here is strong: 10,071 sales in the last twelve months of data, enough that the medians rest on a genuinely broad base and one street cannot move the figure.
Asked and answered: PO (Portsmouth)
How much did a house sell for in PO (Portsmouth)?
Are property prices falling in PO (Portsmouth)?
Is PO (Portsmouth) a good place to buy a house?
Are PO prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in PO now
Everything above is what homes in PO sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 262 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% below the PO median sold price.
Set against 10,071 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 262 homes on the market here are roughly a week of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 15a Lichfield Road, Portsmouth
- The Maples, 45 Victoria Drive, Bognor Regis
- Armory Lane, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1, Portsmouth
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every PO home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What is for sale against what sells in PO
Flats are 63% of what is listed in PO but 19% of what sold over 2024 and 2025: the market is being offered more of them than it has been taking, which tends to give a buyer of one room to talk.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 1% | 26% |
| Semi-detached | 12% | 25% |
| Terraced | 24% | 31% |
| Flats | 63% | 19% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (21 here).
Month by month: when PO sells
Take the 67,636 PO sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.9% of the total, April trails with 6.6%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4,626 | 6.8% |
| February | 5,269 | 7.8% |
| March | 7,355 | 10.9% |
| April | 4,453 | 6.6% |
| May | 4,994 | 7.4% |
| June | 6,796 | 10.0% |
| July | 5,186 | 7.7% |
| August | 5,941 | 8.8% |
| September | 6,782 | 10.0% |
| October | 5,497 | 8.1% |
| November | 5,505 | 8.1% |
| December | 5,232 | 7.7% |
What another bedroom costs in PO
Real sold prices by size across the PO area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £320,000 | £364,250 (+14%) | £420,000 (+15%) | £510,000 (+21%) | £640,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | £300,000 (+11%) | £326,000 (+9%) | £380,000 (+17%) | £445,000 (+17%) |
| Terraced | £225,000 | £245,000 (+9%) | £270,000 (+10%) | £318,250 (+18%) | £385,000 (+21%) |
| Flat | £134,000 | £182,500 (+36%) | £250,000 (+37%) | £325,000 (+30%) | £433,375 (+33%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PO area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable PO district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| PO18 Bosham, Boxgrove | £477,500 | +8% | 70 |
| PO41 Yarmouth | £450,000 | +21% | 13 |
| PO10 Emsworth, Southbourne | £415,000 | +5% | 124 |
| PO34 Seaview, No Man's Land Fort | £400,000 | +11% | 27 |
| PO20 Selsey, West Wittering | £372,000 | +1% | 268 |
| PO8 Clanfield, Cowplain | £360,000 | +4% | 283 |
| PO19 Chichester, Fishbourne | £355,000 | -3% | 216 |
| PO11 Hayling Island | £340,000 | -7% | 122 |
| PO35 Bembridge, Whitecliff Bay | £340,000 | -19% | 31 |
| PO14 Fareham, Hill Head | £332,000 | +5% | 255 |
| PO15 Fareham, Titchfield | £331,500 | +2% | 202 |
| PO16 Portchester | £327,500 | +13% | 249 |
| PO7 Waterlooville, Denmead | £326,200 | +2% | 316 |
| PO22 Bognor Regis, Barnham | £326,200 | +0% | 270 |
| PO21 Bognor Regis, Aldwick | £303,800 | +3% | 292 |
| PO6 Farlington, Drayton | £300,000 | +3% | 214 |
| PO9 Havant, Rowlands Castle | £295,000 | +5% | 279 |
| PO31 Cowes, Gurnard | £287,500 | +9% | 100 |
| PO13 Gosport, Lee-on-the-Solent | £282,500 | +12% | 213 |
| PO17 Wickham | £280,000 | -20% | 41 |
| PO3 Hilsea (including Anchorage Park), Copnor | £275,000 | +11% | 149 |
| PO38 Ventnor | £274,500 | -5% | 90 |
| PO37 Shanklin | £264,000 | -6% | 79 |
| PO4 Milton, Eastney | £261,200 | +8% | 300 |
| PO39 Totland Bay, Alum Bay | £250,000 | -22% | 21 |
| PO40 Freshwater | £250,000 | -14% | 41 |
| PO2 Kingston, Rudmore | £245,000 | +12% | 225 |
| PO33 Ryde, St Helens Fort | £245,000 | +4% | 253 |
| PO30 Newport | £235,000 | +4% | 225 |
| PO12 Gosport, Alverstoke | £230,000 | +5% | 348 |
| PO36 Sandown | £230,000 | -8% | 135 |
| PO5 Southsea, Somerstown | £227,000 | +7% | 147 |
| PO1 Old Portsmouth, Portsea | £220,000 | +10% | 115 |
| PO32 East Cowes, Whippingham | £217,500 | +4% | 62 |
Selling a home in PO? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PO, open the average prices map and zoom from the PO shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PO sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PO already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual PO sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.