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Bassett market report SO16 7, Southampton
The SO16 7 (Bassett) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,045 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO16 7 (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: 35 registered 2026 sales put the SO16 7 (Southampton) median at £300,000, down 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £374,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,560 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,045 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SO16 7 is a single group of streets within SO16 (Southampton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SO16 7 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 7 homes really sell for
In the SO16 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £300,000, from 35 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £374,700, sitting 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 7
Per square metre, SO16 7 homes have averaged around £3,560 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO16 7 sits 5% above the national market.
SO16 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 87 |
| 2024 | £456,200 | £485,034 | 92 |
| 2023 | £337,500 | £370,830 | 72 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 107 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 131 |
| 2020 | £346,000 | £448,942 | 101 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 79 |
| 2018 | £334,200 | £445,495 | 112 |
| 2017 | £331,800 | £452,542 | 130 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 104 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 163 |
| 2014 | £304,500 | £431,986 | 152 |
| 2013 | £272,500 | £392,100 | 111 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 99 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 80 |
| 2010 | £287,500 | £450,874 | 127 |
| 2009 | £276,000 | £443,672 | 120 |
| 2008 | £271,500 | £445,046 | 94 |
| 2007 | £262,500 | £445,273 | 166 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 192 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 172 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 177 |
| 2003 | £178,800 | £329,393 | 166 |
| 2002 | £197,000 | £370,654 | 165 |
| 2001 | £159,500 | £306,631 | 157 |
| 2000 | £137,500 | £269,844 | 146 |
| 1999 | £107,500 | £214,242 | 147 |
| 1998 | £88,500 | £178,644 | 147 |
| 1997 | £97,500 | £199,953 | 147 |
| 1996 | £70,500 | £148,681 | 172 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 95 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 7 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 100%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 43% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO16 7 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 1997 (+38.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−27.7%). 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) | −27.7% | −29.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.4% | −9.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | 0.0% | −3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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 7
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 35 SO16 7 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 168 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How SO16 7 trades
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO16 7 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. Against the SO16 district median, SO16 7 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SO16 7
The local authority for SO16 7 is Southampton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,250 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £300,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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 7 (Bassett)
Is SO16 7 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO16 7 (Bassett)?
Are property prices falling in SO16 7 (Bassett)?
Where do SO16 7 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 24% over five years in cash but down 40% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in SO16 right 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 7: 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.
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- Charmouth Terrace, Irving Road, South...
- Mercury Close, Southampton, Southampton
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 6 | £185,000 | 27 |
| 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 a home in SO16 7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO16 7'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 SO16 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO16 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO16 7 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.