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Shirley market report SO15 5, Southampton
The SO15 5 (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: 6,715 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO15 5 (Southampton) 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: 43 registered 2026 sales put the SO15 5 (Southampton) median at £293,200, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £299,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,715 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SO15 5 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 5 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 5 homes really sell for
Across 43 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO15 5 home went for £293,200. The mean is £299,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in SO15 5
The last five years of sales put SO15 5 at roughly £3,370 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SO15 5 3% above the national figure.
SO15 5'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 | £293,200 | £293,200 | 43 |
| 2025 | £292,500 | £299,495 | 141 |
| 2024 | £318,800 | £338,950 | 128 |
| 2023 | £337,500 | £370,830 | 144 |
| 2022 | £287,500 | £337,127 | 153 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 189 |
| 2020 | £266,000 | £345,140 | 96 |
| 2019 | £237,500 | £311,306 | 152 |
| 2018 | £272,800 | £363,648 | 148 |
| 2017 | £222,000 | £302,786 | 150 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 198 |
| 2015 | £208,700 | £294,893 | 204 |
| 2014 | £211,500 | £300,050 | 224 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 143 |
| 2012 | £189,000 | £278,184 | 127 |
| 2011 | £179,500 | £270,976 | 124 |
| 2010 | £217,500 | £341,096 | 153 |
| 2009 | £182,000 | £292,567 | 141 |
| 2008 | £193,500 | £317,187 | 160 |
| 2007 | £202,300 | £343,157 | 291 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 375 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 271 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 338 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 281 |
| 2002 | £133,500 | £251,179 | 376 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 307 |
| 2000 | £81,500 | £159,944 | 290 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 321 |
| 1998 | £67,200 | £135,648 | 292 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 292 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 252 |
| 1995 | £47,500 | £103,258 | 211 |
In cash terms the typical SO15 5 home went from £47,500 in 1995 to £293,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 184%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO15 5 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 (+42.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SO15 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 5
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.
SO15 5 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 316 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
Reading the SO15 5 market
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO15 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within SO15, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around SO15 5
For renting purposes SO15 5 sits in Southampton. The ONS average private rent there is £1,250 a month (May 2026). 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 £293,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
Common questions on SO15 5 (Shirley)
How much did a house sell for in SO15 5 (Shirley)?
Are property prices falling in SO15 5 (Shirley)?
Is SO15 5 (Shirley) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to SO15 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
SO15's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 157 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO15 district, not just SO15 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% 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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £208,000 | 42 |
| SO15 3 | £233,700 | 28 |
| SO15 4 | £345,000 | 17 |
| 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 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO15 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO15 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO15 5 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 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO15 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO15 5 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.