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Kingston market report PO2, Portsmouth

The standing PO2 (Kingston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 23,551 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PO2 (Portsmouth) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: 189 registered 2026 sales put the PO2 (Portsmouth) median at £245,000, up 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £255,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,820 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 23,551 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

PO2 is the postcode district covering Kingston, Rudmore, Whale Island in Portsmouth. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.

What buyers actually paid in PO2

In the PO2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £245,000, from 189 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £255,800, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.

House prices per square metre in PO2

The last five years of sales put PO2 at roughly £2,820 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.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PO2 14% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical PO2 home went from £44,800 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 152%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 74% of the typed total. In 2018, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £285,000 against £135,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.

Sales activity in PO2

PO2 recorded 401 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,054 sales a year before the financial crisis and 424 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 PO2

PO2 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.

Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,366 a month (£16,392 a year) works out at a 6.7% 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.

Asked and answered: PO2 (Kingston)

Where do PO2 prices go next?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

PO2's current homes for sale

Bedroom by bedroom: PO prices by size

The risers and the fallers

PO2 ranks 4 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.

Inside PO2, 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.

How PO2 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PO area, and PO2 itself, which ranks 26 of 34 by median price:

Before you sell in PO2: what the record supports

Keep digging

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO2. Free after a one click sign in.

See every individual PO2 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.

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.