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Whippingham market report PO32 6, East Cowes
The PO32 6 (Whippingham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,734 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PO32 6 (East Cowes) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for PO32 6 (East Cowes) is £215,000, from 52 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £225,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,060 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,734 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PO32 6 is one sector of PO32 (East Cowes): 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.
Where PO32 6 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 buyers actually paid in PO32 6
Take the 52 registered 2026 sales in PO32 6 and the middle price, the median, is £215,000. The mean lands at £225,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in PO32 6
The last five years of sales put PO32 6 at roughly £3,060 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PO32 6 trades 25% below the country as a whole.
PO32 6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 136 |
| 2024 | £220,000 | £233,905 | 139 |
| 2023 | £238,000 | £261,504 | 128 |
| 2022 | £226,600 | £265,714 | 170 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 191 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 171 |
| 2019 | £185,900 | £243,670 | 212 |
| 2018 | £178,000 | £237,277 | 213 |
| 2017 | £178,000 | £242,774 | 244 |
| 2016 | £165,000 | £230,837 | 226 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 204 |
| 2014 | £161,000 | £228,407 | 197 |
| 2013 | £148,200 | £213,245 | 168 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 151 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 119 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 121 |
| 2009 | £152,000 | £244,341 | 122 |
| 2008 | £168,500 | £276,207 | 148 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 172 |
| 2006 | £155,500 | £269,928 | 198 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 192 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 238 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 269 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 266 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 229 |
| 2000 | £64,000 | £125,600 | 211 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 229 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 205 |
| 1997 | £38,500 | £78,956 | 151 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 149 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical PO32 6 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 167%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PO32 6 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 1998 (+37.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−10.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO32 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.5% | −8.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in PO32 6
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
PO32 6 recorded 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 222 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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.
The shape of the PO32 6 market
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PO32 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of PO32 6
The local authority for PO32 6 is Isle of Wight, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £946 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £659 a month here against £1,508 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Isle of Wight
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £215,000 median purchase price, a rent of £946 a month (£11,352 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
What people ask about PO32 6 (Whippingham)
Are property prices falling in PO32 6 (Whippingham)?
Is PO32 6 (Whippingham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO32 6 (Whippingham)?
Where do PO32 6 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the PO area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Zoom out to the full PO32 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO32 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PO32 6? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PO32 6'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PO32 6.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO32 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PO32 6 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.
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.