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Alum Bay market report PO39 0, Totland Bay
The PO39 0 (Alum Bay) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,086 HM Land Registry entries for PO39 0 (Totland Bay), 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: 15 registered 2026 sales put the PO39 0 (Totland Bay) median at £235,000, down 27% on five years earlier, with a mean of £274,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,420 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,086 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PO39 0 is one sector of PO39 (Totland Bay): 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 PO39 0 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.
Today's PO39 0 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for PO39 0 is £235,000, taken from 15 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £274,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in PO39 0
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in PO39 0 costs about £3,420 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PO39 0 sits 18% below the national market.
The price of a typical PO39 0 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 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 49 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 55 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 49 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 58 |
| 2021 | £322,500 | £408,327 | 76 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 73 |
| 2019 | £246,500 | £323,103 | 52 |
| 2018 | £218,000 | £290,598 | 71 |
| 2017 | £257,500 | £351,204 | 64 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 83 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 63 |
| 2014 | £201,200 | £285,437 | 78 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 53 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 56 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 57 |
| 2010 | £187,500 | £294,048 | 50 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 46 |
| 2008 | £265,000 | £434,391 | 45 |
| 2007 | £238,200 | £404,054 | 94 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 93 |
| 2005 | £204,800 | £364,461 | 60 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 81 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 74 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 101 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 77 |
| 2000 | £77,000 | £151,113 | 57 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 82 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 81 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 64 |
| 1996 | £62,500 | £131,810 | 81 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 48 |
In cash terms the typical PO39 0 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 80%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 46% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PO39 0 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 2001 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−29.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO39 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −29.9% | −31.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.1% | −10.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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
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.
The register shows 15 PO39 0 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 80 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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 homes rent for around PO39 0
The local authority for PO39 0 is Isle of Wight, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £235,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Reading the PO39 0 market
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PO39 0 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.
Common questions on PO39 0 (Alum Bay)
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What happens to PO39 0 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 27% over five years in cash but down 42% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
Moving up a bedroom in PO: the cost
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%) | — |
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
The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PO area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full PO39 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO39 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PO39 0? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PO39 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the PO39 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PO39 0 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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Dig further
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The live map plots every individual PO39 0 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.