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Selsey market report PO20 8, Chichester

The PO20 8 (Selsey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,838 registered sales in PO20 8 (Chichester) 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.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: 53 registered 2026 sales put the PO20 8 (Chichester) median at £440,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £458,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,560 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,838 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

PO20 8 is one sector of PO20 (Chichester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.

PO20 8 sold prices: where the market stands

The PO20 8 median stands at £440,000 for 2026, built from 53 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £458,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.

What a square metre costs in PO20 8

Measured by floor area, the last five years of PO20 8 sales average about £5,560 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PO20 8 54% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical PO20 8 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 177%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+29.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.9%). 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

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.

Transaction volumes

PO20 8 recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 231 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

Reading the PO20 8 market

This is a thin market: 53 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the PO20 district median, PO20 8 sits 17% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

What homes rent for around PO20 8

PO20 8 falls under Chichester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,325 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £941 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,109 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

£1,325 a month is £15,900 a year, which against the £440,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.

PO20 8 (Selsey): the questions that come up

Will PO20 8 prices rise from here?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.

PO20's current homes for sale

Moving up a bedroom in PO: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in PO20

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PO20's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full PO20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO20 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in PO20 8? Start from the sold record

Dig further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO20 8. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual PO20 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.

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.