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Bitterne market report SO18 1, Southampton
The SO18 1 (Bitterne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,437 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO18 1 (Southampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO18 1 (Southampton) came in at £267,000, out of 39 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £257,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,280 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,437 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SO18 1 is a single group of streets within SO18 (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 SO18 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.
What SO18 1 homes really sell for
In the SO18 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £267,000, from 39 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £257,700, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
SO18 1 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SO18 1 homes have averaged around £3,280 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO18 1 trades 6% below the country as a whole.
SO18 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £267,000 | £267,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £271,200 | £277,685 | 128 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 107 |
| 2023 | £253,000 | £277,985 | 107 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 155 |
| 2021 | £272,500 | £345,020 | 142 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 114 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 184 |
| 2018 | £235,100 | £313,393 | 141 |
| 2017 | £233,000 | £317,789 | 157 |
| 2016 | £203,000 | £283,999 | 141 |
| 2015 | £176,500 | £249,395 | 157 |
| 2014 | £180,200 | £255,645 | 164 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 109 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 101 |
| 2011 | £177,500 | £267,957 | 96 |
| 2010 | £180,800 | £283,541 | 88 |
| 2009 | £144,000 | £231,481 | 155 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 125 |
| 2007 | £174,000 | £295,152 | 211 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 246 |
| 2005 | £157,800 | £280,820 | 186 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 263 |
| 2003 | £142,000 | £261,598 | 233 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 309 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 269 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 213 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 273 |
| 1998 | £63,900 | £128,987 | 224 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 266 |
| 1996 | £47,400 | £99,964 | 166 |
| 1995 | £52,200 | £113,475 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical SO18 1 home went from £52,200 in 1995 to £267,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 135%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO18 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 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.3%). 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) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
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.
SO18 1 recorded 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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 SO18 1
SO18 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.
Against the £267,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.
Reading the SO18 1 market
This is a thin market: 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Asked and answered: SO18 1 (Bitterne)
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What happens to SO18 1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SO18's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 78 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO18 district, not just SO18 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- River View Road, Southampton, Hampshi...
- Flat 3, 84 Bitterne Road West, Southampton
- Wavell Road, Southampton, Hampshire, ...
"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 SO18 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.
What another bedroom costs in SO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
SO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SO18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SO18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO18 2 | £290,000 | 29 |
| SO18 3 | £325,000 | 35 |
| SO18 4 | £265,000 | 25 |
| SO18 5 | £277,500 | 52 |
| SO18 6 | £300,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full SO18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SO18 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO18 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO18 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO18 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO18 1.
Go deeper
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See every individual SO18 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.
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.