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Bassett market report SO16 5, Southampton
The standing SO16 5 (Bassett) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,503 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO16 5 (Southampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO16 5 (Southampton) came in at £278,500, out of 24 registered, up 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £274,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,420 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,503 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SO16 5 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 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.
The going rate for a home in SO16 5
The 2026 median for SO16 5 is £278,500, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £274,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in SO16 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SO16 5 sales average about £3,420 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SO16 5 runs 2% below it.
The price of a typical SO16 5 home, 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 | £278,500 | £278,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £258,000 | £264,170 | 72 |
| 2024 | £251,000 | £266,865 | 67 |
| 2023 | £255,000 | £280,183 | 75 |
| 2022 | £251,500 | £294,912 | 75 |
| 2021 | £222,800 | £282,094 | 86 |
| 2020 | £206,500 | £267,938 | 66 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 87 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 78 |
| 2017 | £194,500 | £265,278 | 76 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 92 |
| 2015 | £160,500 | £226,787 | 87 |
| 2014 | £162,000 | £229,825 | 113 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 116 |
| 2012 | £149,500 | £220,045 | 94 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 79 |
| 2010 | £154,000 | £241,512 | 65 |
| 2009 | £133,000 | £213,799 | 75 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 85 |
| 2007 | £152,000 | £257,834 | 171 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 164 |
| 2005 | £136,200 | £242,381 | 138 |
| 2004 | £137,500 | £249,727 | 162 |
| 2003 | £122,000 | £224,754 | 153 |
| 2002 | £96,200 | £180,999 | 164 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 157 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 131 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 162 |
| 1998 | £58,900 | £118,894 | 156 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 144 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 197 |
| 1995 | £49,900 | £108,475 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 5 home went from £49,900 in 1995 to £278,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 157%: 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 6% 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 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 2003 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.9%). 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) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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 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.
The register shows 24 SO16 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
Rents around SO16 5
SO16 5 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.
Set against the £278,500 median sold price, £1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How SO16 5 trades
This is a thin market: 24 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.
SO16 5 (Bassett): the questions that come up
Is SO16 5 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO16 5 (Bassett)?
Are property prices falling in SO16 5 (Bassett)?
Are SO16 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in SO16 now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, SO area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SO16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SO16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO16 0 | £362,500 | 16 |
| SO16 2 | £327,500 | 5 |
| SO16 3 | £320,000 | 35 |
| SO16 4 | £207,500 | 34 |
| 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 5? 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 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO16 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO16 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO16 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO16 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO16 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.