Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,195 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PO39 (Totland Bay) 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 data to March 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
PO39 is the postcode district covering Totland Bay, Alum Bay in Totland Bay. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where PO39 sits
Click the map to open PO39 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£243,800median sold price, 2026
-13%five-year change (cash)
63sales in the last 12 months
4.7%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in PO39 sells for
The 2026 median in PO39 is £243,800, from 8 registered sales; the mean, £237,600, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so PO39 trades 11% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical PO39 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£243,800
£243,800
8
2025
£325,000
£325,000
51
2024
£292,500
£303,725
62
2023
£315,000
£338,025
57
2022
£325,000
£372,199
71
2021
£280,000
£346,237
92
2020
£283,800
£359,636
86
2019
£220,000
£281,633
60
2018
£209,500
£272,745
92
2017
£250,000
£333,012
73
2016
£210,000
£286,931
93
2015
£221,000
£304,980
68
2014
£200,000
£277,108
80
2013
£195,000
£274,033
55
2012
£190,000
£273,125
56
2011
£190,000
£280,128
57
2010
£187,500
£287,181
50
2009
£205,000
£321,843
46
2008
£265,000
£424,246
45
2007
£238,200
£394,617
94
2006
£195,000
£330,590
93
2005
£204,800
£355,950
60
2004
£207,500
£368,059
81
2003
£150,000
£269,883
74
2002
£130,000
£238,881
101
2001
£110,000
£206,531
77
2000
£77,000
£147,583
57
1999
£80,000
£155,712
82
1998
£67,000
£132,086
81
1997
£60,000
£120,174
64
1996
£62,500
£128,731
81
1995
£60,000
£127,385
48
In cash terms the typical PO39 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £243,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 91%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 43% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PO39 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 (−25.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−25.0%
−25.0%
5 years (since 2021)
−2.7%
−6.8%
10 years (since 2016)
+1.5%
−1.6%
20 years (since 2006)
+1.1%
−1.5%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
PO39 recorded 63 sales in the last 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 50 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
PO39 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 £243,800 median sold price, £946 a month is £11,352 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Will PO39 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 30% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
PO39 ranks 31 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 PO39, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.