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Bassett market report SO16 3, Southampton
The SO16 3 (Bassett) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,042 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO16 3 (Southampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SO16 3 (Southampton) is £320,000, from 35 registered sales, up 38% on five years earlier; the mean is £378,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,540 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,042 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SO16 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO16 (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 SO16 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.
The going rate for a home in SO16 3
The SO16 3 median stands at £320,000 for 2026, built from 35 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £378,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in SO16 3
Per square metre, SO16 3 homes have averaged around £3,540 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 SO16 3 12% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SO16 3 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 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £342,500 | £350,690 | 84 |
| 2024 | £277,500 | £295,040 | 88 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 74 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 97 |
| 2021 | £232,500 | £294,375 | 112 |
| 2020 | £249,000 | £323,083 | 78 |
| 2019 | £318,200 | £417,084 | 96 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 103 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 114 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 96 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 124 |
| 2014 | £192,500 | £273,095 | 94 |
| 2013 | £233,000 | £335,264 | 94 |
| 2012 | £171,000 | £251,691 | 83 |
| 2011 | £176,000 | £265,692 | 82 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 88 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 101 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 94 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 181 |
| 2006 | £168,800 | £293,015 | 190 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 183 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 163 |
| 2003 | £129,500 | £238,570 | 167 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 216 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 180 |
| 2000 | £92,200 | £180,943 | 174 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 220 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 167 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 179 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 161 |
| 1995 | £52,600 | £114,344 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 3 home went from £52,600 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 180%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO16 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 2000 (+41.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−21.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SO16 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.6% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
SO16 3 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
Reading the SO16 3 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO16 3 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. Against the SO16 district median, SO16 3 sits 17% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of SO16 3
The local authority for SO16 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 £320,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
Asked and answered: SO16 3 (Bassett)
How much did a house sell for in SO16 3 (Bassett)?
Are property prices falling in SO16 3 (Bassett)?
Is SO16 3 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
Will SO16 3 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SO16 today
The live side of the market holds 132 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO16 district, not just SO16 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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 SO16 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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 SO16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO16 0 | £362,500 | 16 |
| SO16 2 | £327,500 | 5 |
| SO16 4 | £207,500 | 34 |
| SO16 5 | £278,500 | 24 |
| SO16 6 | £185,000 | 27 |
| SO16 7 | £300,000 | 35 |
| SO16 8 | £301,500 | 62 |
| SO16 9 | £237,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full SO16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SO16 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO16 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO16 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO16 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO16 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO16 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO16 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.
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.