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Shirley market report SO15 2, Southampton
The SO15 2 (Shirley) 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: 7,035 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO15 2 (Southampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 SO15 2 (Southampton) came in at £208,000, out of 42 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £250,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,330 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,035 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SO15 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO15 (Southampton). 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 SO15 2 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 SO15 2 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SO15 2 is £208,000, taken from 42 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £250,700, 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 SO15 2
The last five years of sales put SO15 2 at roughly £3,330 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO15 2 27% below the country at large.
The price of a typical SO15 2 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £208,000 | £208,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 135 |
| 2024 | £199,000 | £211,578 | 140 |
| 2023 | £197,500 | £217,004 | 139 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 187 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 171 |
| 2020 | £206,000 | £267,289 | 113 |
| 2019 | £197,000 | £258,220 | 149 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 176 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 260 |
| 2016 | £201,200 | £281,481 | 214 |
| 2015 | £180,800 | £255,470 | 252 |
| 2014 | £168,000 | £238,337 | 227 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 177 |
| 2012 | £203,000 | £298,791 | 132 |
| 2011 | £171,200 | £258,446 | 190 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 199 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 153 |
| 2008 | £174,500 | £286,042 | 172 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 297 |
| 2006 | £173,000 | £300,306 | 289 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 249 |
| 2004 | £179,700 | £326,370 | 292 |
| 2003 | £172,200 | £317,234 | 464 |
| 2002 | £146,800 | £276,203 | 404 |
| 2001 | £128,500 | £247,035 | 290 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 399 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 288 |
| 1998 | £70,800 | £142,915 | 232 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 267 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 182 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 154 |
In cash terms the typical SO15 2 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £208,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 59%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2004; the current median sits about 36% below that. Someone who bought at the 2004 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO15 2 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 1999 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−13.8%). 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) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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 SO15 2
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in SO15 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 336 sales a year before the financial crisis and 129 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of SO15 2
SO15 2 falls under Southampton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,250 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, which against the £208,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.2%. 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.
Reading the SO15 2 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO15 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SO15, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: SO15 2 (Shirley)
How much did a house sell for in SO15 2 (Shirley)?
Are property prices falling in SO15 2 (Shirley)?
Is SO15 2 (Shirley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SO15 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SO15 right now
The live side of the market holds 157 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO15 district, not just SO15 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 SO15 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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 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 SO15
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO15, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO15 0 | £235,000 | 6 |
| SO15 1 | £155,000 | 11 |
| SO15 3 | £233,700 | 28 |
| SO15 4 | £345,000 | 17 |
| SO15 5 | £293,200 | 43 |
| SO15 7 | £475,000 | 12 |
| SO15 8 | £252,500 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full SO15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO15 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SO15 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO15 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO15 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO15 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO15 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO15 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO15 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.