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Shirley market report SO15 8, Southampton
The SO15 8 (Shirley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,966 registered sales in SO15 8 (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: the typical home in SO15 8 (Southampton) sold for £252,500 in 2026, the median of 20 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £247,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,966 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SO15 8 is one sector of SO15 (Southampton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SO15 8 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 8 homes really sell for
20 sales were registered in SO15 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £252,500. The mean works out at £247,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in SO15 8
Per square metre, SO15 8 homes have averaged around £3,140 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO15 8 11% below the country at large.
A typical SO15 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £252,500 | £252,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 43 |
| 2024 | £274,000 | £291,318 | 48 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 48 |
| 2022 | £267,500 | £313,674 | 46 |
| 2021 | £225,500 | £285,512 | 71 |
| 2020 | £222,500 | £288,698 | 40 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 35 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 49 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 59 |
| 2016 | £193,000 | £270,009 | 55 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 53 |
| 2014 | £173,000 | £245,431 | 53 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 64 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 44 |
| 2011 | £165,200 | £249,388 | 30 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 38 |
| 2009 | £152,800 | £245,627 | 42 |
| 2008 | £156,500 | £256,537 | 73 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 82 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 110 |
| 2005 | £158,500 | £282,066 | 87 |
| 2004 | £144,000 | £261,532 | 90 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 81 |
| 2002 | £120,500 | £226,720 | 82 |
| 2001 | £90,500 | £173,982 | 75 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 81 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 79 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 74 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 81 |
| 1996 | £47,200 | £99,543 | 72 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical SO15 8 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £252,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO15 8 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 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.5% | −8.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in SO15 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 86 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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 rental side of SO15 8
SO15 8 falls under Southampton, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £252,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 5.9% 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.
Reading the SO15 8 market
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO15 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
SO15 8 (Shirley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SO15 8 (Shirley)?
Is SO15 8 (Shirley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO15 8 (Shirley)?
Where do SO15 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SO area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
SO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SO15
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SO15's other sectors, each with 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 5 | £293,200 | 43 |
| SO15 7 | £475,000 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full SO15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO15 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SO15 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO15 8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO15 8.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SO15 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO15 8 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.