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Bassett market report SO16 4, Southampton
The SO16 4 (Bassett) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,616 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO16 4 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SO16 4 (Southampton) home changed hands for £207,500 in 2026 (median of 34 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £209,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,616 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SO16 4 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 4 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 4
Take the 34 registered 2026 sales in SO16 4 and the middle price, the median, is £207,500. The mean lands at £209,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in SO16 4
The last five years of sales put SO16 4 at roughly £3,150 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 SO16 4 27% below the country at large.
SO16 4's median sold price, 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 | £207,500 | £207,500 | 34 |
| 2025 | £259,000 | £265,193 | 73 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 71 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 118 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 101 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 107 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 85 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 71 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 93 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 151 |
| 2016 | £184,000 | £257,418 | 111 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 133 |
| 2014 | £161,200 | £228,690 | 178 |
| 2013 | £143,500 | £206,482 | 81 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 59 |
| 2011 | £123,000 | £185,683 | 83 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 64 |
| 2009 | £128,400 | £206,404 | 71 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 74 |
| 2007 | £151,200 | £256,477 | 152 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 188 |
| 2005 | £136,500 | £242,915 | 150 |
| 2004 | £136,000 | £247,003 | 155 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 130 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 186 |
| 2001 | £79,200 | £152,258 | 144 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 146 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 134 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 126 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 139 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 105 |
| 1995 | £41,600 | £90,432 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 4 home went from £41,600 in 1995 to £207,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 129%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO16 4 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 2025 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−34.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.9% | −21.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SO16 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SO16 4 recorded 34 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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.
How SO16 4 trades
This is a thin market: 34 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. 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 SO16, this sector trades 24% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around SO16 4
For renting purposes SO16 4 sits in Southampton. The ONS average private rent there is £1,250 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £207,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 7.2% 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.
What people ask about SO16 4 (Bassett)
Are property prices falling in SO16 4 (Bassett)?
Is SO16 4 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO16 4 (Bassett)?
Are SO16 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
On the market in SO16 today
Turning to what is actually available: 132 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO16 district, not just SO16 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Taranto Road, Southampton
- Charmouth Terrace, Irving Road, South...
- Mercury Close, Southampton, Southampton
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SO16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SO16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO16 0 | £362,500 | 16 |
| SO16 2 | £327,500 | 5 |
| SO16 3 | £320,000 | 35 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SO16 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO16 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO16 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO16 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SO16 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO16 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO16 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO16 4 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.