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Somerstown market report PO5 1, Southsea
The PO5 1 (Somerstown) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,628 HM Land Registry entries for PO5 1 (Southsea), 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: the 2026 median for PO5 1 (Southsea) is £227,000, from 33 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £271,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,090 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,628 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PO5 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PO5 (Southsea). 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 PO5 1 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.
PO5 1 sold prices: where the market stands
33 sales were registered in PO5 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £227,000. The mean works out at £271,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in PO5 1
The last five years of sales put PO5 1 at roughly £3,090 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PO5 1 sits 20% below the national market.
PO5 1's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £227,000 | £227,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £217,500 | £222,701 | 99 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 84 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 99 |
| 2022 | £233,000 | £273,219 | 134 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 147 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 101 |
| 2019 | £173,000 | £226,762 | 107 |
| 2018 | £179,000 | £238,610 | 140 |
| 2017 | £173,800 | £237,046 | 132 |
| 2016 | £176,000 | £246,226 | 145 |
| 2015 | £161,000 | £227,493 | 155 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 161 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 124 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 89 |
| 2011 | £146,000 | £220,404 | 99 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 103 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 111 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 143 |
| 2007 | £141,000 | £239,175 | 277 |
| 2006 | £136,000 | £236,079 | 272 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 207 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 241 |
| 2003 | £113,000 | £208,173 | 217 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 332 |
| 2001 | £78,200 | £150,336 | 294 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 289 |
| 1999 | £59,600 | £118,780 | 339 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 269 |
| 1997 | £49,500 | £101,515 | 293 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 215 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical PO5 1 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £227,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 137%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PO5 1 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 2003 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO5 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.4% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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
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.
PO5 1 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 266 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the PO5 1 market
This is a thin market: 33 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.
What homes rent for around PO5 1
The local authority for PO5 1 is Portsmouth, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,366 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £899 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,961 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Portsmouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £227,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,366 a month (£16,392 a year) works out at a 7.2% 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.
PO5 1 (Somerstown): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in PO5 1 (Somerstown)?
Are property prices falling in PO5 1 (Somerstown)?
Is PO5 1 (Somerstown) a good place to buy a house?
Will PO5 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in PO5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 49 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO5 district, not just PO5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every PO5 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in PO5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PO5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO5 2 | £247,500 | 44 |
| PO5 3 | £175,000 | 32 |
| PO5 4 | £273,000 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full PO5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in PO5 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PO5 1'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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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO5 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PO5 1 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.
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.