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Alum Bay market report PO39, Totland Bay
The PO39 (Alum Bay) 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: 2,092 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 recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 1 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PO39 (Totland Bay) came in at £250,000, out of 21 registered, down 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £281,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,430 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,092 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PO39 is a postcode district covering Totland Bay, Alum Bay in Totland Bay. 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 PO39 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 PO39
Take the 21 registered 2026 sales in PO39 and the middle price, the median, is £250,000. The mean lands at £281,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in PO39
The last five years of sales put PO39 at roughly £3,430 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PO39 12% below the country at large.
The price of a typical PO39 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 21 |
| 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 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 92%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 42% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
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 (−25.4%). 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, 40% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £461,000 against £185,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, PO39
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 | £461,000 (2025) | – | 836 |
| Semi-detached | £350,000 | 5 | 413 |
| Terraced | £253,800 | 6 | 354 |
| Flats | £185,000 | 7 | 486 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −25.4% | −27.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.0% | −9.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −2.2% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
PO39 recorded 28 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 46 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 PO39 is
This is a thin market: 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. This is detached-house territory: 56% of last year's sales were detached, which props the overall median well above the flat and terrace market underneath it. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
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.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £946 a month (£11,352 a year) works out at a 4.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on PO39 (Alum Bay)
How much did a house sell for in PO39 (Alum Bay)?
Are property prices falling in PO39 (Alum Bay)?
Is PO39 (Alum Bay) a good place to buy a house?
Where do PO39 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 39% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
The PO39 sales calendar
Take the 287 PO39 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: June completions lead with 15.3% of the total, October trails with 4.9%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 22 | 7.7% |
| February | 33 | 11.5% |
| March | 25 | 8.7% |
| April | 15 | 5.2% |
| May | 29 | 10.1% |
| June | 44 | 15.3% |
| July | 21 | 7.3% |
| August | 25 | 8.7% |
| September | 30 | 10.5% |
| October | 14 | 4.9% |
| November | 15 | 5.2% |
| December | 14 | 4.9% |
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 | £320,000 | £364,250 (+14%) | £420,000 (+15%) | £510,000 (+21%) | £640,000 (+25%) |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | £300,000 (+11%) | £326,000 (+9%) | £380,000 (+17%) | £445,000 (+17%) |
| Terraced | £225,000 | £245,000 (+9%) | £270,000 (+10%) | £318,250 (+18%) | £385,000 (+21%) |
| Flat | £134,000 | £182,500 (+36%) | £250,000 (+37%) | £325,000 (+30%) | £433,375 (+33%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
PO39 ranks 34 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PO39, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PO39 0 | £250,000 | 21 |
How PO39 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PO area, and PO39 itself, which ranks 25 of 34 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PO18 | £477,500 | +8% |
| PO41 | £450,000 | +21% |
| PO10 | £415,000 | +5% |
| PO34 | £400,000 | +11% |
| PO20 | £372,000 | +1% |
| PO8 | £360,000 | +4% |
| PO19 | £355,000 | -3% |
| PO11 | £340,000 | -7% |
| PO35 | £340,000 | -19% |
| PO14 | £332,000 | +5% |
| PO15 | £331,500 | +2% |
| PO16 | £327,500 | +13% |
| PO7 | £326,200 | +2% |
| PO22 | £326,200 | +0% |
| PO21 | £303,800 | +3% |
| PO6 | £300,000 | +3% |
| PO9 | £295,000 | +5% |
| PO31 | £287,500 | +9% |
| PO13 | £282,500 | +12% |
| PO17 | £280,000 | -20% |
| PO3 | £275,000 | +11% |
| PO38 | £274,500 | -5% |
| PO37 | £264,000 | -6% |
| PO39 (this report) | £250,000 | -22% |
Selling a home in PO39? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PO39'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.
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Two maps carry on from here: every PO39 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.