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Bitterne market report SO18 3, Southampton
The standing SO18 3 (Bitterne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,555 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO18 3 (Southampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SO18 3 (Southampton) sold for £325,000 in 2026, the median of 35 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier. The mean was £345,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,555 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SO18 3 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 3 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 SO18 3 sells for
The SO18 3 median stands at £325,000 for 2026, built from 35 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £345,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SO18 3
By floor space, homes in SO18 3 have sold for about £4,140 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SO18 3 14% above the national figure.
A typical SO18 3 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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £293,000 | £300,007 | 75 |
| 2024 | £281,200 | £298,973 | 74 |
| 2023 | £250,500 | £275,238 | 60 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 83 |
| 2021 | £259,800 | £328,940 | 88 |
| 2020 | £231,500 | £300,376 | 72 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 73 |
| 2018 | £245,600 | £327,389 | 88 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 106 |
| 2016 | £227,500 | £318,275 | 92 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 93 |
| 2014 | £200,500 | £284,444 | 92 |
| 2013 | £227,500 | £327,350 | 133 |
| 2012 | £166,500 | £245,067 | 90 |
| 2011 | £164,500 | £248,332 | 88 |
| 2010 | £168,000 | £263,467 | 85 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 66 |
| 2008 | £169,000 | £277,027 | 74 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 113 |
| 2006 | £151,800 | £263,505 | 156 |
| 2005 | £148,000 | £263,380 | 133 |
| 2004 | £138,800 | £252,088 | 136 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 142 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 147 |
| 2001 | £91,000 | £174,943 | 220 |
| 2000 | £77,000 | £151,113 | 145 |
| 1999 | £65,400 | £130,339 | 180 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 161 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 199 |
| 1996 | £49,100 | £103,550 | 152 |
| 1995 | £49,800 | £108,258 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical SO18 3 home went from £49,800 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 200%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the SO18 3 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 2013 (+36.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−11.9%). 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) | +10.9% | +8.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in SO18 3
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 3 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 149 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
The shape of the SO18 3 market
This is a thin market: 35 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the SO18 district median, SO18 3 sits 14% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around SO18 3
The local authority for SO18 3 is Eastleigh, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,210 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £859 a month here against £1,866 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Eastleigh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £325,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,210 a month (£14,520 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Common questions on SO18 3 (Bitterne)
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Searches that land here, answered
To the person who searched rental property valuation in bitterne
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £325,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Are SO18 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 78 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO18 district, not just SO18 3: 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, ...
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight 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%) | — |
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.
SO area districts: five years of change
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 2 | £290,000 | 29 |
| 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 in SO18 3? 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 SO18 3'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 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO18 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO18 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SO18 3 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.