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Whippingham market report PO32, East Cowes
The standing PO32 (Whippingham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,734 HM Land Registry entries for PO32 (East Cowes), 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in PO32 (East Cowes) sold for £215,000 in 2026, the median of 52 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £225,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,060 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,734 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PO32 is a postcode district covering East Cowes, Whippingham in East Cowes. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PO32 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.
PO32 sold prices: where the market stands
52 sales were registered in PO32 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £215,000. The mean works out at £225,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in PO32
The last five years of sales put PO32 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PO32 sits 25% below the national market.
PO32's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a 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 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 167%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. 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 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.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| 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% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £292,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, PO32
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 | £292,000 | 11 | 1,175 |
| Semi-detached | £257,500 | 14 | 1,675 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 17 | 1,962 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 10 | 922 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 107 PO32 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 222 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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 kind of market PO32 is
Only 107 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PO32 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. By median price PO32 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
Rents around PO32
PO32 falls under Isle of Wight, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £946 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £659 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,508 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Isle of Wight
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£946 a month is £11,352 a year, which against the £215,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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.
PO32 (Whippingham): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in PO32 (Whippingham)?
Is PO32 (Whippingham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO32 (Whippingham)?
Where do PO32 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Moving up a bedroom in PO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the PO area, straight 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
PO32 ranks 21 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.
Winners and losers across the PO area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside PO32, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO32 6 | £215,000 | 52 |
How PO32 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PO area, and PO32 itself, which ranks 34 of 34 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PO41 | £532,500 | +43% |
| PO18 | £460,000 | +4% |
| PO10 | £400,000 | +1% |
| PO34 | £377,500 | +4% |
| PO20 | £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% |
| PO32 (this report) | £215,000 | +2% |
Selling in PO32? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PO32, open the average prices map and zoom from the PO32 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PO32 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual PO32 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.