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Bassett market report SO16 6, Southampton
The SO16 6 (Bassett) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,832 HM Land Registry entries for SO16 6 (Southampton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
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 SO16 6 (Southampton) sold for £185,000 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, down 21% on five years earlier. The mean was £219,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,832 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SO16 6 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 6 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 SO16 6 homes really sell for
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in SO16 6 and the middle price, the median, is £185,000. The mean lands at £219,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in SO16 6
By floor space, homes in SO16 6 have sold for about £3,260 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SO16 6 runs 35% below it.
The price of a typical SO16 6 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £271,200 | £277,685 | 80 |
| 2024 | £227,500 | £241,879 | 56 |
| 2023 | £261,000 | £286,775 | 69 |
| 2022 | £245,200 | £287,525 | 92 |
| 2021 | £233,000 | £295,008 | 103 |
| 2020 | £238,000 | £308,810 | 59 |
| 2019 | £206,000 | £270,017 | 80 |
| 2018 | £212,500 | £283,267 | 97 |
| 2017 | £211,000 | £287,783 | 90 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 127 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 111 |
| 2014 | £164,000 | £232,663 | 113 |
| 2013 | £153,000 | £220,152 | 76 |
| 2012 | £144,000 | £211,950 | 71 |
| 2011 | £149,000 | £224,933 | 85 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 87 |
| 2009 | £136,800 | £219,907 | 74 |
| 2008 | £151,000 | £247,521 | 105 |
| 2007 | £152,000 | £257,834 | 172 |
| 2006 | £148,200 | £257,256 | 198 |
| 2005 | £142,000 | £252,703 | 162 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 186 |
| 2003 | £123,500 | £227,517 | 184 |
| 2002 | £99,500 | £187,208 | 178 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 204 |
| 2000 | £64,700 | £126,974 | 160 |
| 1999 | £55,500 | £110,609 | 191 |
| 1998 | £52,500 | £105,975 | 180 |
| 1997 | £50,500 | £103,565 | 165 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 124 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 126 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 6 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 96%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 40% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO16 6 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 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−31.8%). 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) | −31.8% | −33.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.5% | −8.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in SO16 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 181 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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 SO16 6
The local authority for SO16 6 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 £185,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 8.1%. 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.
How SO16 6 trades
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO16 6 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 6 sits 32% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
SO16 6 (Bassett): the questions that come up
Is SO16 6 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO16 6 (Bassett)?
Are property prices falling in SO16 6 (Bassett)?
Will SO16 6 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 21% over five years in cash but down 37% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SO16 now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Taranto Road, Southampton
- Charmouth Terrace, Irving Road, South...
- Mercury Close, Southampton, Southampton
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
What another bedroom costs in SO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, 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. 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 5 | £278,500 | 24 |
| 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.
Selling in SO16 6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO16 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO16 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO16 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SO16 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO16 6.
Take it further
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See every individual SO16 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.