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Portchester market report PO16, Fareham
The standing PO16 (Portchester) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 19,598 registered sales in PO16 (Fareham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 PO16 (Fareham) came in at £327,500, out of 249 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £334,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 19,598 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district PO16 covering Portchester sits in Fareham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where PO16 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.
The going rate for a home in PO16
The 2026 median for PO16 is £327,500, taken from 249 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £334,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
PO16 prices by floor area
Per square metre, PO16 homes have averaged around £3,880 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PO16 15% above the country at large.
PO16's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £327,500 | £327,500 | 249 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 581 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 502 |
| 2023 | £312,500 | £343,361 | 435 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 541 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 727 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 487 |
| 2019 | £268,800 | £352,332 | 607 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 593 |
| 2017 | £262,500 | £358,024 | 547 |
| 2016 | £241,100 | £337,301 | 605 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 627 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 621 |
| 2013 | £192,500 | £276,988 | 525 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 442 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 415 |
| 2010 | £185,500 | £290,912 | 442 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 416 |
| 2008 | £181,000 | £296,697 | 440 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 834 |
| 2006 | £178,200 | £309,332 | 849 |
| 2005 | £171,000 | £304,311 | 697 |
| 2004 | £167,800 | £304,758 | 676 |
| 2003 | £157,700 | £290,522 | 636 |
| 2002 | £132,000 | £248,357 | 848 |
| 2001 | £107,000 | £205,702 | 800 |
| 2000 | £97,100 | £190,559 | 736 |
| 1999 | £81,800 | £163,023 | 900 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 713 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 805 |
| 1996 | £61,800 | £130,333 | 758 |
| 1995 | £58,500 | £127,170 | 544 |
In cash terms the typical PO16 home went from £58,500 in 1995 to £327,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PO16 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 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−3.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.0% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £472,500 against £146,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, PO16
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 | £472,500 | 44 | 4,217 |
| Semi-detached | £340,000 | 95 | 6,991 |
| Terraced | £317,500 | 65 | 5,214 |
| Flats | £146,500 | 45 | 3,176 |
Sales activity in PO16
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 446 PO16 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 760 sales a year before the financial crisis and 462 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 PO16
PO16 falls under Fareham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,213 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £857 a month here against £1,997 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Fareham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £327,500 median sold price, £1,213 a month is £14,556 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about PO16 (Portchester)
Is PO16 (Portchester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO16 (Portchester)?
Are property prices falling in PO16 (Portchester)?
Will PO16 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
Month by month: when PO16 sells
Across the 2,786 sales completed in PO16 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (10.4% of the total) and January the quietest (6.3%). 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 | 176 | 6.3% |
| February | 210 | 7.5% |
| March | 273 | 9.8% |
| April | 176 | 6.3% |
| May | 181 | 6.5% |
| June | 290 | 10.4% |
| July | 242 | 8.7% |
| August | 253 | 9.1% |
| September | 272 | 9.8% |
| October | 240 | 8.6% |
| November | 238 | 8.5% |
| December | 235 | 8.4% |
The price of an extra bedroom in PO
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PO area. 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%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PO16 ranks 2 of 34 in the PO area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the PO area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PO16, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO16 0 | £285,000 | 46 |
| PO16 7 | £340,000 | 67 |
| PO16 8 | £341,800 | 72 |
| PO16 9 | £326,200 | 64 |
How PO16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PO18 | £477,500 | +8% |
| PO41 | £450,000 | +21% |
| PO10 | £415,000 | +5% |
| PO34 | £400,000 | +11% |
| PO20 | £372,000 | +1% |
| PO8 | £360,000 | +4% |
| PO19 | £355,000 | -3% |
| PO11 | £340,000 | -7% |
| PO35 | £340,000 | -19% |
| PO14 | £332,000 | +5% |
| PO15 | £331,500 | +2% |
| PO16 (this report) | £327,500 | +13% |
| PO7 | £326,200 | +2% |
| PO22 | £326,200 | +0% |
| PO21 | £303,800 | +3% |
| PO6 | £300,000 | +3% |
| PO9 | £295,000 | +5% |
| PO31 | £287,500 | +9% |
| PO13 | £282,500 | +12% |
| PO17 | £280,000 | -20% |
| PO3 | £275,000 | +11% |
| PO38 | £274,500 | -5% |
| PO37 | £264,000 | -6% |
| PO4 | £261,200 | +8% |
Before you sell in PO16: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PO16's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO16. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PO16 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.