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Bassett market report SO16 8, Southampton
The standing SO16 8 (Bassett) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,589 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO16 8 (Southampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 62 registered 2026 sales put the SO16 8 (Southampton) median at £301,500, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £369,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,730 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,589 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SO16 8 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 8 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 a home in SO16 8 sells for
62 sales were registered in SO16 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £301,500. The mean works out at £369,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SO16 8
A square metre of SO16 8 home has cost about £3,730 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SO16 8 6% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SO16 8 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 | £301,500 | £301,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 109 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 145 |
| 2023 | £287,500 | £315,892 | 132 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 197 |
| 2021 | £273,500 | £346,286 | 200 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 121 |
| 2019 | £237,000 | £310,650 | 141 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 140 |
| 2017 | £226,000 | £308,241 | 149 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 136 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 158 |
| 2014 | £189,200 | £268,413 | 144 |
| 2013 | £178,000 | £256,124 | 149 |
| 2012 | £171,000 | £251,691 | 98 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 113 |
| 2010 | £171,200 | £268,486 | 98 |
| 2009 | £156,000 | £250,771 | 129 |
| 2008 | £165,800 | £271,781 | 98 |
| 2007 | £173,000 | £293,456 | 229 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 237 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 211 |
| 2004 | £157,500 | £286,051 | 260 |
| 2003 | £128,800 | £237,281 | 196 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 261 |
| 2001 | £91,500 | £175,904 | 278 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 204 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 256 |
| 1998 | £63,500 | £128,179 | 236 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 243 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 242 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 217 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 8 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £301,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 162%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 28% 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 8 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 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−19.0%). 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) | −1.1% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 8 recorded 62 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 235 sales a year before the financial crisis and 129 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 8
For renting purposes SO16 8 sits in Southampton. The ONS average private rent there is £1,250 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £875 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,882, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £301,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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 8 trades
Within SO16, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on SO16 8 (Bassett)
How much did a house sell for in SO16 8 (Bassett)?
Are property prices falling in SO16 8 (Bassett)?
Is SO16 8 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SO16 8 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 8: 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.
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- 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SO prices by size
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%) | — |
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. 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
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 5 | £278,500 | 24 |
| SO16 6 | £185,000 | 27 |
| SO16 7 | £300,000 | 35 |
| 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 8? 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 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO16 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO16 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SO16 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO16 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO16 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO16 8 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.