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Ventnor market report PO38
The PO38 (Ventnor) 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: 9,026 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PO38 (Ventnor) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical PO38 (Ventnor) home changed hands for £275,000 in 2026 (median of 79 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £310,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,420 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,026 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
PO38 is a postcode district covering Ventnor in Ventnor. 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 PO38 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 PO38
Take the 79 registered 2026 sales in PO38 and the middle price, the median, is £275,000. The mean lands at £310,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PO38
A square metre of PO38 home has cost about £3,420 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PO38 trades 4% below the country as a whole.
A typical PO38 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 222 |
| 2024 | £297,500 | £316,304 | 167 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 185 |
| 2022 | £293,800 | £344,514 | 262 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 313 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 249 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 231 |
| 2018 | £227,000 | £302,595 | 249 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 240 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 295 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 281 |
| 2014 | £191,800 | £272,102 | 262 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 262 |
| 2012 | £192,000 | £282,600 | 189 |
| 2011 | £185,500 | £280,034 | 214 |
| 2010 | £193,500 | £303,458 | 211 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 202 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 186 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 390 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 399 |
| 2005 | £168,000 | £298,972 | 286 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 357 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 377 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 395 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 389 |
| 2000 | £73,500 | £144,244 | 379 |
| 1999 | £66,800 | £133,129 | 426 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 370 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 387 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 334 |
| 1995 | £50,800 | £110,431 | 238 |
In cash terms the typical PO38 home went from £50,800 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PO38 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 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−8.9%). 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, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £411,000 against £175,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, PO38
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 | £411,000 | 33 | 3,524 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 23 | 2,205 |
| Terraced | £245,000 | 10 | 1,478 |
| Flats | £175,000 | 13 | 1,819 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.5% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 175 sales completed in PO38. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 372 sales a year before the financial crisis and 183 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 tenants pay around PO38
PO38 falls under Isle of Wight, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £946 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £659 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,508, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 (Ventnor)
Are property prices falling in PO38 (Ventnor)?
Is PO38 (Ventnor) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO38 (Ventnor)?
Where do PO38 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
PO38's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in PO38 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1 home on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 80% below the PO38 median sold price.
See every PO38 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.
Moving up a bedroom in PO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the PO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
PO38 ranks 28 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside PO38, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO38 1 | £255,000 | 35 |
| PO38 2 | £322,500 | 15 |
| PO38 3 | £275,000 | 29 |
How PO38 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 | £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 (this report) | £275,000 | -5% |
| PO4 | £269,000 | +11% |
Thinking of selling in PO38? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PO38, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PO38's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PO38 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PO38.
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The live map plots every individual PO38 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.