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City Centre market report SO14 3, Southampton
The SO14 3 (City Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,931 registered sales in SO14 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 28 registered 2026 sales put the SO14 3 (Southampton) median at £176,000, down 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £204,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,200 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,931 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SO14 3 is a single group of streets within SO14 (Southampton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SO14 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.
Today's SO14 3 prices, from the sold record
Take the 28 registered 2026 sales in SO14 3 and the middle price, the median, is £176,000. The mean lands at £204,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
SO14 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of SO14 3 home has cost about £3,200 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO14 3 trades 38% below the country as a whole.
SO14 3's median sold price, 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 | £176,000 | £176,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 97 |
| 2024 | £205,000 | £217,957 | 96 |
| 2023 | £215,000 | £236,233 | 112 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 161 |
| 2021 | £208,000 | £263,355 | 139 |
| 2020 | £197,500 | £256,260 | 85 |
| 2019 | £198,500 | £260,186 | 166 |
| 2018 | £206,000 | £274,602 | 223 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 222 |
| 2016 | £187,000 | £261,615 | 238 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 317 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 275 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 171 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 130 |
| 2011 | £179,500 | £270,976 | 158 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 106 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 92 |
| 2008 | £161,000 | £263,913 | 156 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 328 |
| 2006 | £180,500 | £313,325 | 439 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 265 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 282 |
| 2003 | £175,500 | £323,314 | 212 |
| 2002 | £144,500 | £271,875 | 297 |
| 2001 | £131,000 | £251,841 | 225 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 217 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 175 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 179 |
| 1997 | £86,000 | £176,369 | 166 |
| 1996 | £70,100 | £147,838 | 106 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical SO14 3 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £176,000 in 2026, roughly 2.4 times the price. Strip out inflation, though, and the change is small: about 12% in real terms. Most of the cash growth is money losing value rather than homes gaining it. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 52% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO14 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 1998 (+27.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.0%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.3% | −7.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.1% | −2.8% |
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.
Sales activity in SO14 3
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SO14 3 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 283 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 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.
The shape of the SO14 3 market
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO14 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the SO14 district median, SO14 3 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around SO14 3
The local authority for SO14 3 is Southampton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,250 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £875 a month here against £1,882 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Southampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £176,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 8.5% 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.
What people ask about SO14 3 (City Centre)
Is SO14 3 (City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO14 3 (City Centre)?
Are property prices falling in SO14 3 (City Centre)?
Where do SO14 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 15% over five years in cash but down 33% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in SO14 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 145 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO14 district, not just SO14 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 SO14 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, 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 | — | £369,500 | £515,000 (+39%) | £775,000 (+50%) | £1,194,217 (+54%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £316,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+19%) | £495,000 (+32%) | £837,500 (+69%) |
| Terraced | £255,000 | £282,450 (+11%) | £320,000 (+13%) | £480,125 (+50%) | £792,000 (+65%) |
| Flat | £155,000 | £220,000 (+42%) | £387,250 (+76%) | £750,000 (+94%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SO area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SO14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SO14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO14 0 | £181,500 | 12 |
| SO14 1 | £185,000 | 5 |
| SO14 2 | £221,000 | 10 |
| SO14 5 | £172,000 | 8 |
| SO14 6 | £256,000 | 16 |
| SO14 7 | £280,000 | 3 |
Zoom out to the full SO14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SO14 3? 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 SO14 3'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.
Estate agents working SO14 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO14 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO14 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SO14 3 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.
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.