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Highfield market report SO17 1, Southampton
The standing SO17 1 (Highfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,438 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO17 1 (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: a typical SO17 1 (Southampton) home changed hands for £207,500 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, down 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £289,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,500 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,438 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SO17 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO17 (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 SO17 1 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.
SO17 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 32 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO17 1 home went for £207,500. The mean is £289,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
SO17 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SO17 1 sales average about £3,500 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO17 1 sits 27% below the national market.
SO17 1'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 | £207,500 | £207,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £247,500 | £253,418 | 108 |
| 2024 | £298,000 | £316,835 | 66 |
| 2023 | £244,000 | £268,096 | 88 |
| 2022 | £229,900 | £269,584 | 101 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 117 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 75 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 84 |
| 2018 | £217,000 | £289,265 | 111 |
| 2017 | £218,500 | £298,012 | 122 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 131 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 109 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 167 |
| 2013 | £186,000 | £267,635 | 107 |
| 2012 | £198,300 | £291,873 | 98 |
| 2011 | £193,500 | £292,111 | 91 |
| 2010 | £197,500 | £309,731 | 102 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 129 |
| 2008 | £207,000 | £339,317 | 130 |
| 2007 | £185,500 | £314,660 | 175 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 198 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 151 |
| 2004 | £188,000 | £341,445 | 173 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 191 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 227 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 222 |
| 2000 | £101,000 | £198,213 | 176 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 210 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 177 |
| 1997 | £68,500 | £140,480 | 199 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 214 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical SO17 1 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £207,500 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 62%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2004. The market now sits about 39% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO17 1 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 2000 (+34.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−16.9%). 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) | −16.2% | −18.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.7% | −8.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.5% | −2.2% |
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.
Sales activity in SO17 1
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SO17 1 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How SO17 1 trades
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO17 1 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. Within SO17, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around SO17 1
SO17 1 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.
£1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, which against the £207,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.2%. 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.
Asked and answered: SO17 1 (Highfield)
Are property prices falling in SO17 1 (Highfield)?
Is SO17 1 (Highfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO17 1 (Highfield)?
Where do SO17 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SO17's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 53 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO17 district, not just SO17 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
41% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 SO17 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SO17
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SO17's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO17 2 | £250,000 | 33 |
| SO17 3 | £291,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full SO17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SO17 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO17 1'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.
Estate agents working SO17 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO17 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO17 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SO17 1 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.
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.