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Shirley market report SO15 3, Southampton
The standing SO15 3 (Shirley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,863 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO15 3 (Southampton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the typical home in SO15 3 (Southampton) sold for £233,700 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £218,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,050 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,863 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SO15 3 is a single group of streets within SO15 (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 SO15 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 SO15 3 homes really sell for
In the SO15 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £233,700, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £218,300, sitting below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
What a square metre costs in SO15 3
The last five years of sales put SO15 3 at roughly £3,050 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO15 3 sits 18% below the national market.
SO15 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 | £233,700 | £233,700 | 28 |
| 2025 | £234,000 | £239,596 | 93 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 69 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 111 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 113 |
| 2021 | £201,000 | £254,492 | 112 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 79 |
| 2019 | £196,800 | £257,958 | 90 |
| 2018 | £181,500 | £241,943 | 102 |
| 2017 | £157,000 | £214,132 | 107 |
| 2016 | £147,000 | £205,654 | 128 |
| 2015 | £171,300 | £242,047 | 138 |
| 2014 | £153,000 | £217,057 | 160 |
| 2013 | £148,500 | £213,677 | 108 |
| 2012 | £141,000 | £207,534 | 107 |
| 2011 | £147,500 | £222,668 | 79 |
| 2010 | £137,500 | £215,635 | 81 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 104 |
| 2008 | £145,600 | £238,669 | 128 |
| 2007 | £154,000 | £261,227 | 233 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 239 |
| 2005 | £134,000 | £238,466 | 217 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 215 |
| 2003 | £120,500 | £221,990 | 214 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 254 |
| 2001 | £75,500 | £145,145 | 217 |
| 2000 | £66,500 | £130,506 | 233 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 241 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 235 |
| 1997 | £44,000 | £90,235 | 291 |
| 1996 | £40,200 | £84,780 | 182 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical SO15 3 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £233,700 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2024; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2024 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO15 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 (+39.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−17.0%). 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) | −0.1% | −2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in SO15 3
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, 28 sales completed in SO15 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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.
What kind of market SO15 3 is
This is a thin market: 28 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 SO15, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around SO15 3
The local authority for SO15 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.
£1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, which against the £233,700 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.4%. 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.
SO15 3 (Shirley): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SO15 3 (Shirley)?
Are property prices falling in SO15 3 (Shirley)?
Is SO15 3 (Shirley) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SO15 3 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SO15's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 157 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO15 district, not just SO15 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% 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.
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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 →
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: SO prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight 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.
SO area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SO15
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SO15, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO15 0 | £235,000 | 6 |
| SO15 1 | £155,000 | 11 |
| SO15 2 | £208,000 | 42 |
| 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 a home in SO15 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO15 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO15 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO15 3 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 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO15 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO15 3 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.