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Bassett market report SO16 9, Southampton
The SO16 9 (Bassett) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,194 HM Land Registry entries for SO16 9 (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 2026 median for SO16 9 (Southampton) is £237,000, from 61 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £231,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,100 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,194 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SO16 9 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 9 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 buyers actually paid in SO16 9
61 sales were registered in SO16 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £237,000. The mean works out at £231,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
SO16 9 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SO16 9 at roughly £3,100 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO16 9 sits 17% below the national market.
A typical SO16 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £237,000 | £237,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 109 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 84 |
| 2023 | £241,500 | £265,350 | 87 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 99 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 140 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 91 |
| 2019 | £191,500 | £251,011 | 122 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 130 |
| 2017 | £176,500 | £240,728 | 112 |
| 2016 | £174,200 | £243,708 | 130 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 165 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 179 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 143 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 93 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 82 |
| 2010 | £131,000 | £205,442 | 72 |
| 2009 | £127,500 | £204,957 | 78 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 103 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 178 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 181 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 150 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 181 |
| 2003 | £113,000 | £208,173 | 154 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 181 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 172 |
| 2000 | £64,500 | £126,581 | 158 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 196 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 166 |
| 1997 | £54,100 | £110,948 | 210 |
| 1996 | £41,200 | £86,889 | 98 |
| 1995 | £41,500 | £90,215 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical SO16 9 home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £237,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO16 9 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.6%). 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) | −1.2% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
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 61 SO16 9 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 169 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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 9 trades
Against the SO16 district median, SO16 9 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of SO16 9
SO16 9 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.
Against the £237,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 6.3% 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.
SO16 9 (Bassett): the questions that come up
Is SO16 9 (Bassett) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO16 9 (Bassett)?
Are property prices falling in SO16 9 (Bassett)?
Are SO16 9 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
SO16's current homes for sale
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 9: 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
"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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: SO prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SO area. 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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO16, each linking to 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 4 | £207,500 | 34 |
| SO16 5 | £278,500 | 24 |
| SO16 6 | £185,000 | 27 |
| SO16 7 | £300,000 | 35 |
| SO16 8 | £301,500 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full SO16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SO16 9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO16 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO16 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO16 9 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 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO16 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO16 9 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.