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Southampton market report SO
The SO (Southampton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 376,509 registered sales in the SO postcode area (Southampton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 4,351 registered 2026 sales put the the SO postcode area (Southampton) median at £336,300, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £401,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,160 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 376,509 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The figures for SO centred on Southampton run across 23 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where SO 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.
Today's SO prices, from the sold record
In the SO property market, the 2026 median sale price is £336,300, from 4,351 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £401,400, sitting 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 SO
By floor space, homes in SO have sold for about £4,160 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, SO sits 18% above the national market.
The price of a typical SO 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 | £336,300 | £336,300 | 4,351 |
| 2025 | £347,500 | £355,810 | 9,808 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 9,093 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 8,396 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 10,614 |
| 2021 | £327,000 | £414,024 | 13,267 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 9,268 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 10,173 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 10,909 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 11,239 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 11,520 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 11,985 |
| 2014 | £228,000 | £323,458 | 11,993 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 10,237 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 8,622 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 8,524 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 8,527 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 8,675 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 8,266 |
| 2007 | £202,000 | £342,648 | 15,436 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 16,775 |
| 2005 | £182,000 | £323,887 | 12,905 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 14,758 |
| 2003 | £164,000 | £302,128 | 14,127 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 16,326 |
| 2001 | £118,000 | £226,849 | 15,491 |
| 2000 | £102,000 | £200,175 | 14,060 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 16,353 |
| 1998 | £76,500 | £154,421 | 14,494 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 15,534 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 13,810 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 10,973 |
In cash terms the typical SO home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £336,300 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 158%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO 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 (+20.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−4.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SO has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.2% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.1% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £538,800 against £180,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SO
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 | £538,800 | 1,310 | 111,939 |
| Semi-detached | £347,200 | 1,070 | 91,460 |
| Terraced | £290,000 | 1,125 | 93,027 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 846 | 80,083 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
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.
The register shows 7,794 SO 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 14,985 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8,452 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around SO
For renting purposes SO sits in Southampton, the local authority covering most of the SO area (parts fall under Winchester and New Forest, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,250 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £875 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,882 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Southampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £336,300 median sold price, £1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: SO (Southampton)
Is SO (Southampton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO (Southampton)?
Are property prices falling in SO (Southampton)?
Are SO prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
SO's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SO sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 868 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the SO median sold price.
Set against 7,794 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 868 homes on the market here are roughly 6 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Grosvenor Road, Southampton, Southampton
- Ringwood Road, Totton, Southampton, Southampton
- Orchard Lane, Southampton, SO14, Southampton
"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 SO 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.
Month by month: when SO sells
March is when SO changes hands most (11.0% of the 51,178 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.7%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,636 | 7.1% |
| February | 3,958 | 7.7% |
| March | 5,611 | 11.0% |
| April | 3,424 | 6.7% |
| May | 3,564 | 7.0% |
| June | 5,199 | 10.2% |
| July | 3,697 | 7.2% |
| August | 4,455 | 8.7% |
| September | 5,006 | 9.8% |
| October | 4,234 | 8.3% |
| November | 4,181 | 8.2% |
| December | 4,213 | 8.2% |
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SO area. 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 | £305,000 | £370,000 (+21%) | £445,000 (+20%) | £580,000 (+30%) | £800,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £265,500 | £310,000 (+17%) | £349,000 (+13%) | £420,500 (+20%) | £540,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £215,000 | £270,000 (+26%) | £296,000 (+10%) | £405,000 (+37%) | £627,500 (+55%) |
| Flat | £145,500 | £200,000 (+37%) | £280,000 (+40%) | £400,000 (+43%) | £635,000 (+59%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SO area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside SO matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| SO42 Beaulieu, Brockenhurst | £835,000 | +18% | 35 |
| SO20 Stockbridge, King's Somborne | £585,000 | -9% | 33 |
| SO22 Badger Farm, Fulflood | £551,200 | -2% | 174 |
| SO24 New Alresford, Old Alresford | £550,000 | +12% | 65 |
| SO21 Compton, Colden Common | £523,000 | +0% | 111 |
| SO41 Lymington, Milford-on-Sea | £500,000 | +5% | 246 |
| SO43 Lyndhurst, Minstead | £462,500 | -1% | 32 |
| SO32 Bishop's Waltham, Corhampton | £457,500 | -1% | 156 |
| SO23 City Centre, Abbotts Barton | £445,400 | -9% | 157 |
| SO51 Romsey, Ampfield | £415,000 | +1% | 209 |
| SO53 Chandler's Ford | £390,000 | +2% | 235 |
| SO31 Warsash, Hamble-le-Rice | £360,000 | +1% | 353 |
| SO52 North Baddesley | £360,000 | +12% | 55 |
| SO30 Botley, Hedge End | £349,000 | +9% | 270 |
| SO40 Totton, Marchwood | £335,000 | +8% | 259 |
| SO50 Town Centre, Boyatt Wood | £326,200 | +7% | 374 |
| SO45 Hythe, Fawley | £307,500 | -1% | 218 |
| SO18 Bitterne, Bitterne Park | £284,500 | +14% | 246 |
| SO16 Bassett, Lordswood | £280,000 | +12% | 355 |
| SO19 Sholing, Merry Oak | £270,000 | +13% | 353 |
| SO15 Shirley, Freemantle | £256,200 | +11% | 224 |
| SO17 Highfield, Portswood | £222,000 | -2% | 85 |
| SO14 City Centre, St. Mary's | £202,500 | -1% | 106 |
Before you sell in SO: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SO sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.