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Ventnor market report PO38 3
The PO38 3 (Ventnor) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,279 HM Land Registry entries for PO38 3 (Ventnor), 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical PO38 3 (Ventnor) home changed hands for £275,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, down 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £292,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,410 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,279 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
PO38 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PO38 (Ventnor). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where PO38 3 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.
PO38 3 sold prices: where the market stands
In the PO38 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £275,000, from 29 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £292,800, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PO38 3
Per square metre, PO38 3 homes have averaged around £3,410 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PO38 3 4% below the national figure.
The price of a typical PO38 3 home, 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 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £307,500 | £314,853 | 80 |
| 2024 | £277,500 | £295,040 | 62 |
| 2023 | £324,200 | £356,217 | 44 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 72 |
| 2021 | £307,500 | £389,335 | 76 |
| 2020 | £274,700 | £356,429 | 61 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 56 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 62 |
| 2017 | £213,500 | £291,193 | 69 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 82 |
| 2015 | £206,500 | £291,785 | 56 |
| 2014 | £185,500 | £263,164 | 58 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 79 |
| 2012 | £199,500 | £293,639 | 46 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 49 |
| 2010 | £188,000 | £294,832 | 56 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 50 |
| 2008 | £192,000 | £314,729 | 39 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 93 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 88 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 67 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 68 |
| 2003 | £141,500 | £260,677 | 105 |
| 2002 | £123,000 | £231,423 | 89 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 95 |
| 2000 | £82,500 | £161,906 | 90 |
| 1999 | £67,500 | £134,524 | 110 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 92 |
| 1997 | £59,700 | £122,433 | 90 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 91 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical PO38 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PO38 3 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 2002 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−17.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO38 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.6% | −12.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.2% | −6.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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 PO38 3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in PO38 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 87 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 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 kind of market PO38 3 is
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PO38 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What homes rent for around PO38 3
For renting purposes PO38 3 sits in Isle of Wight. The ONS average private rent there is £946 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £275,000 median sold price, £946 a month is £11,352 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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 people ask about PO38 3 (Ventnor)
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What happens to PO38 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 29% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in PO38 today
The live side of the market holds 1 home at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO38 district, not just PO38 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
See every PO38 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in PO
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%) | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in PO38
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PO38, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO38 1 | £255,000 | 35 |
| PO38 2 | £322,500 | 15 |
Zoom out to the full PO38 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO38 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PO38 3? 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 PO38 3'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.
Estate agents working PO38 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PO38 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO38 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PO38 3 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.