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Selsey market report PO20, Chichester
The PO20 (Selsey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 23,198 HM Land Registry entries for PO20 (Chichester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in PO20 (Chichester) sold for £375,000 in 2026, the median of 237 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £410,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,440 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 23,198 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district PO20 covering Selsey, West Wittering, East Wittering sits in Chichester. 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 PO20 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 PO20
The 2026 median for PO20 is £375,000, taken from 237 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £410,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in PO20
Per square metre, PO20 homes have averaged around £4,440 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 PO20 32% above the country at large.
PO20's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 237 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 577 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 645 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 611 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 835 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 930 |
| 2020 | £366,200 | £475,152 | 638 |
| 2019 | £321,200 | £421,016 | 680 |
| 2018 | £322,500 | £429,899 | 683 |
| 2017 | £320,500 | £437,130 | 682 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 658 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 672 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 777 |
| 2013 | £242,000 | £348,214 | 612 |
| 2012 | £239,000 | £351,778 | 514 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 545 |
| 2010 | £227,200 | £356,308 | 560 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 536 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 473 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 909 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 936 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 700 |
| 2004 | £209,000 | £379,585 | 877 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 813 |
| 2002 | £153,000 | £287,868 | 956 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 947 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 909 |
| 1999 | £92,500 | £184,348 | 1,014 |
| 1998 | £88,000 | £177,634 | 914 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 935 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 801 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 622 |
In cash terms the typical PO20 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 154%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PO20 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 2000 (+24.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £475,000 against £166,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, PO20
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 | £475,000 | 109 | 10,526 |
| Semi-detached | £365,000 | 77 | 6,283 |
| Terraced | £292,500 | 34 | 3,867 |
| Flats | £166,500 | 17 | 2,522 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 505 PO20 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 881 sales a year before the financial crisis and 581 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.
What tenants pay around PO20
The local authority for PO20 is Chichester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,325 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £941 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,109, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Chichester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £375,000 median sold price, £1,325 a month is £15,900 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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 kind of market PO20 is
PO20 sits 5 of 34 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about PO20 (Selsey)
Is PO20 (Selsey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO20 (Selsey)?
Are property prices falling in PO20 (Selsey)?
Are PO20 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
What you could buy in PO20 now
Everything above is what homes in PO20 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 49 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 86% above the PO20 median sold price.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- East Bracklesham Drive, Chichester, PO20
- Royce Close, Chichester, PO20
- Keynor Lane, Chichester, PO20
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 PO20 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in PO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PO area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
PO20 ranks 22 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.
Five-year change in the median, PO area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PO20, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PO20 0 | £327,500 | 74 |
| PO20 1 | £362,500 | 16 |
| PO20 2 | £360,000 | 35 |
| PO20 3 | £365,000 | 35 |
| PO20 7 | £476,000 | 18 |
| PO20 8 | £440,000 | 53 |
| PO20 9 | £432,500 | 6 |
How PO20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PO41 | £532,500 | +43% |
| PO18 | £460,000 | +4% |
| PO10 | £400,000 | +1% |
| PO34 | £377,500 | +4% |
| PO20 (this report) | £375,000 | +1% |
| PO8 | £360,000 | +4% |
| PO35 | £351,000 | -16% |
| PO19 | £340,000 | -7% |
| PO11 | £337,500 | -8% |
| PO14 | £335,200 | +6% |
| PO7 | £330,000 | +3% |
| PO15 | £330,000 | +1% |
| PO16 | £326,100 | +12% |
| PO22 | £320,500 | -1% |
| PO6 | £307,000 | +6% |
| PO21 | £305,000 | +3% |
| PO9 | £300,000 | +7% |
| PO31 | £292,000 | +11% |
| PO17 | £285,500 | -18% |
| PO13 | £285,000 | +13% |
| PO40 | £280,000 | -3% |
| PO3 | £275,000 | +11% |
| PO38 | £275,000 | -5% |
| PO4 | £269,000 | +11% |
Selling a home in PO20? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PO20, open the average prices map and zoom from the PO20 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PO20 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PO20.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PO20 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PO20 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.