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Somerstown market report PO5 3, Southsea
The standing PO5 3 (Somerstown) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,225 HM Land Registry entries for PO5 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical PO5 3 (Southsea) home changed hands for £175,000 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, down 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £254,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,280 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,225 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like PO5 3 is a single group of streets within PO5 (Southsea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where PO5 3 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 3 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 32 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PO5 3 home went for £175,000. The mean is £254,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
PO5 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of PO5 3 home has cost about £3,280 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PO5 3 sits 39% below the national market.
PO5 3'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 99 |
| 2024 | £193,500 | £205,730 | 102 |
| 2023 | £184,000 | £202,171 | 74 |
| 2022 | £198,000 | £232,178 | 105 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 113 |
| 2020 | £233,000 | £302,322 | 78 |
| 2019 | £179,000 | £234,626 | 102 |
| 2018 | £208,500 | £277,934 | 101 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 103 |
| 2016 | £167,000 | £233,635 | 122 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 135 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 121 |
| 2013 | £133,800 | £192,525 | 114 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 77 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 65 |
| 2010 | £148,200 | £232,416 | 82 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 81 |
| 2008 | £138,000 | £226,211 | 87 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 159 |
| 2006 | £134,000 | £232,607 | 222 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 141 |
| 2004 | £129,000 | £234,289 | 206 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 192 |
| 2002 | £94,000 | £176,860 | 228 |
| 2001 | £79,200 | £152,258 | 210 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 211 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 221 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 191 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 213 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 130 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical PO5 3 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 77%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. 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 PO5 3 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 1997 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.7% | −18.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.0% | −8.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in PO5 3
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.
PO5 3 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 196 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
Rents around PO5 3
PO5 3 falls under Portsmouth, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, which against the £175,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 9.4%. 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.
What kind of market PO5 3 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PO5 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within PO5, this sector trades 23% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about PO5 3 (Somerstown)
Is PO5 3 (Somerstown) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO5 3 (Somerstown)?
Are property prices falling in PO5 3 (Somerstown)?
Are PO5 3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% 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.
On the market in PO5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 49 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO5 district, not just PO5 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every PO5 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in PO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PO area, 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%) | — |
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in PO5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PO5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO5 1 | £227,000 | 33 |
| PO5 2 | £247,500 | 44 |
| 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.
Before you sell in PO5 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PO5 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the PO5 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PO5 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PO5 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PO5 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PO5 3 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.
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.