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Bitterne market report SO18 2, Southampton
The SO18 2 (Bitterne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,611 registered sales in SO18 2 (Southampton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the SO18 2 (Southampton) median at £290,000, up 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £307,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,700 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,611 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SO18 2 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 2 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.
SO18 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 29 registered 2026 sales in SO18 2 and the middle price, the median, is £290,000. The mean lands at £307,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SO18 2
A square metre of SO18 2 home has cost about £3,700 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO18 2 2% above the country at large.
A typical SO18 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £276,500 | £283,112 | 96 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 99 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 91 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 94 |
| 2021 | £242,000 | £306,403 | 118 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 95 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 103 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 114 |
| 2017 | £222,000 | £302,786 | 111 |
| 2016 | £207,000 | £289,595 | 118 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 114 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 127 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 104 |
| 2012 | £166,100 | £244,478 | 79 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 83 |
| 2010 | £156,000 | £244,648 | 77 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 80 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 72 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 148 |
| 2006 | £157,200 | £272,879 | 162 |
| 2005 | £144,000 | £256,262 | 115 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 144 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 143 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 162 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 134 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 131 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 160 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 140 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 141 |
| 1996 | £50,200 | £105,870 | 137 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical SO18 2 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 164%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO18 2 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SO18 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 SO18 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 29 SO18 2 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 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
Rents around SO18 2
For renting purposes SO18 2 sits in Southampton. The ONS average private rent there is £1,250 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, which against the £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
What kind of market SO18 2 is
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO18 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
SO18 2 (Bitterne): the questions that come up
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What happens to SO18 2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SO18 today
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SO prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, 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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 SO18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SO18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO18 1 | £267,000 | 39 |
| 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.
Selling a home in SO18 2? 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 SO18 2'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 SO18 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO18 2.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every SO18 2 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.