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Rowlands Castle market report PO9 1, Havant
The standing PO9 1 (Rowlands Castle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,321 HM Land Registry entries for PO9 1 (Havant), 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: the middle 2026 sale in PO9 1 (Havant) came in at £270,000, out of 40 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £291,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,321 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PO9 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PO9 (Havant). 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 PO9 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.
PO9 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PO9 1 home went for £270,000. The mean is £291,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PO9 1
By floor space, homes in PO9 1 have sold for about £3,370 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PO9 1 sits 5% below the national market.
PO9 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 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £247,500 | £253,418 | 80 |
| 2024 | £233,500 | £248,258 | 88 |
| 2023 | £273,000 | £299,960 | 73 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 98 |
| 2021 | £258,000 | £326,661 | 105 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 74 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 91 |
| 2018 | £220,800 | £294,331 | 106 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 99 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 153 |
| 2015 | £170,200 | £240,493 | 126 |
| 2014 | £174,500 | £247,559 | 108 |
| 2013 | £156,400 | £225,044 | 96 |
| 2012 | £153,800 | £226,374 | 96 |
| 2011 | £158,800 | £239,727 | 68 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 59 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 73 |
| 2008 | £151,000 | £247,521 | 62 |
| 2007 | £171,000 | £290,064 | 152 |
| 2006 | £170,800 | £296,487 | 138 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 106 |
| 2004 | £137,600 | £249,908 | 118 |
| 2003 | £133,800 | £246,492 | 130 |
| 2002 | £114,000 | £214,490 | 123 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 141 |
| 2000 | £83,200 | £163,280 | 110 |
| 1999 | £62,800 | £125,157 | 123 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 103 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 167 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 103 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical PO9 1 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 151%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PO9 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 2000 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PO9 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.1% | +6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in PO9 1
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 register shows 40 PO9 1 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 127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
How PO9 1 trades
This is a thin market: 40 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. 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. Within PO9, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of PO9 1
The local authority for PO9 1 is Havant, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,135 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £840 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,872 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Havant
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,135 a month is £13,620 a year, which against the £270,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Asked and answered: PO9 1 (Rowlands Castle)
Are property prices falling in PO9 1 (Rowlands Castle)?
Is PO9 1 (Rowlands Castle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO9 1 (Rowlands Castle)?
Are PO9 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 PO9 today
The live side of the market holds 22 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO9 district, not just PO9 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every PO9 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.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Five-year change in the median, PO area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in PO9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PO9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO9 2 | £332,500 | 57 |
| PO9 3 | £345,000 | 53 |
| PO9 4 | £250,500 | 24 |
| PO9 5 | £245,000 | 39 |
| PO9 6 | £453,500 | 18 |
Zoom out to the full PO9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO9 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in PO9 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PO9 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PO9 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PO9 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PO9 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PO9 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PO9 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.