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Kingston market report PO2 8, Portsmouth
The standing PO2 8 (Kingston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,531 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PO2 8 (Portsmouth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in PO2 8 (Portsmouth) sold for £225,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £229,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,531 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like PO2 8 is a single group of streets within PO2 (Portsmouth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where PO2 8 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.
What a home in PO2 8 sells for
Take the 45 registered 2026 sales in PO2 8 and the middle price, the median, is £225,000. The mean lands at £229,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in PO2 8
The last five years of sales put PO2 8 at roughly £2,800 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PO2 8 runs 21% below it.
The price of a typical PO2 8 home, 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 105 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 97 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 103 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 152 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 126 |
| 2020 | £176,200 | £228,623 | 118 |
| 2019 | £178,000 | £233,315 | 117 |
| 2018 | £178,000 | £237,277 | 129 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 139 |
| 2016 | £159,600 | £223,282 | 170 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 191 |
| 2014 | £132,900 | £188,542 | 166 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 133 |
| 2012 | £124,300 | £182,954 | 104 |
| 2011 | £121,500 | £183,418 | 99 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 108 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 91 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 99 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 242 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 255 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 201 |
| 2004 | £117,200 | £212,858 | 232 |
| 2003 | £104,200 | £191,962 | 218 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 269 |
| 2001 | £69,500 | £133,610 | 286 |
| 2000 | £63,000 | £123,638 | 284 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 292 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 264 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 298 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 228 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical PO2 8 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PO2 8 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 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO2 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in PO2 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 45 sales completed in PO2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 248 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around PO2 8
PO2 8 falls under Portsmouth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,366 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £899 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,961 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Portsmouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £225,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,366 a month (£16,392 a year) works out at a 7.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How PO2 8 trades
This is a thin market: 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within PO2, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on PO2 8 (Kingston)
Is PO2 8 (Kingston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO2 8 (Kingston)?
Are property prices falling in PO2 8 (Kingston)?
What happens to PO2 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
PO2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 44 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO2 district, not just PO2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Ophir Road, Portsmouth
- Flat 1 Magdalen Court, 341 London Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth, Portsmouth
- Hewett Rd, North End, Portsmouth, PO2, Portsmouth
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every PO2 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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 | — | £350,000 | £475,000 (+36%) | £675,000 (+42%) | £900,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £273,250 | £305,000 (+12%) | £352,500 (+16%) | £430,000 (+22%) | £610,000 (+42%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £253,000 (+10%) | £290,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+29%) | £498,750 (+33%) |
| Flat | £145,000 | £198,000 (+37%) | £290,000 (+46%) | £500,000 (+72%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, PO area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in PO2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PO2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO2 0 | £275,000 | 59 |
| PO2 7 | £225,800 | 44 |
| PO2 9 | £290,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full PO2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in PO2 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PO2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PO2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PO2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PO2 8.
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The live map plots every individual PO2 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.