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Rowlands Castle market report PO9 3, Havant
The PO9 3 (Rowlands Castle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,203 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in PO9 3 (Havant) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in PO9 3 (Havant) sold for £345,000 in 2026, the median of 53 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £371,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,203 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PO9 3 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 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.
What buyers actually paid in PO9 3
Take the 53 registered 2026 sales in PO9 3 and the middle price, the median, is £345,000. The mean lands at £371,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PO9 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PO9 3 sales average about £3,940 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PO9 3 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical PO9 3 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 180 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 213 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 215 |
| 2022 | £352,000 | £412,760 | 190 |
| 2021 | £317,500 | £401,996 | 227 |
| 2020 | £281,500 | £365,252 | 116 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 154 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 146 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 206 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 230 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 221 |
| 2014 | £225,500 | £319,911 | 149 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 129 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 104 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 111 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 113 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 123 |
| 2008 | £185,900 | £304,729 | 104 |
| 2007 | £194,500 | £329,926 | 182 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 217 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 152 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 159 |
| 2003 | £142,000 | £261,598 | 178 |
| 2002 | £140,600 | £264,538 | 172 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 185 |
| 2000 | £95,500 | £187,419 | 176 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 199 |
| 1998 | £78,200 | £157,852 | 162 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 189 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 121 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical PO9 3 home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PO9 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 2002 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.6%). 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) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 53 PO9 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 170 sales a year recently, against 178 a year before 2008. 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 3 trades
Only 53 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PO9 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within PO9, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of PO9 3
PO9 3 falls under Havant, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,135 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £840 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,872, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £345,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
Common questions on PO9 3 (Rowlands Castle)
Are property prices falling in PO9 3 (Rowlands Castle)?
Is PO9 3 (Rowlands Castle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO9 3 (Rowlands Castle)?
Are PO9 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in PO9 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 22 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO9 district, not just PO9 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: PO prices by size
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%) | — |
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
The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the PO area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £270,000 | 40 |
| PO9 2 | £332,500 | 57 |
| 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.
Selling in PO9 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PO9 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the PO9 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PO9 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 PO9 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PO9 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PO9 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.
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.