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Bitterne market report SO18 4, Southampton
The SO18 4 (Bitterne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,232 registered sales in SO18 4 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SO18 4 (Southampton) sold for £265,000 in 2026, the median of 25 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £254,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,340 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,232 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SO18 4 is one sector of SO18 (Southampton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SO18 4 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.
Today's SO18 4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SO18 4 is £265,000, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £254,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SO18 4
A square metre of SO18 4 home has cost about £3,340 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO18 4 trades 7% below the country as a whole.
SO18 4'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 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 51 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 56 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 64 |
| 2022 | £263,500 | £308,984 | 55 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 65 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 49 |
| 2019 | £216,500 | £283,780 | 46 |
| 2018 | £221,000 | £294,597 | 62 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 55 |
| 2016 | £205,500 | £287,497 | 64 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 73 |
| 2014 | £196,200 | £278,344 | 78 |
| 2013 | £178,000 | £256,124 | 77 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 46 |
| 2011 | £164,000 | £247,577 | 50 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 45 |
| 2009 | £149,000 | £239,519 | 55 |
| 2008 | £162,500 | £266,372 | 48 |
| 2007 | £154,500 | £262,075 | 95 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 93 |
| 2005 | £149,000 | £265,160 | 82 |
| 2004 | £148,800 | £270,250 | 104 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 77 |
| 2002 | £117,000 | £220,134 | 96 |
| 2001 | £91,000 | £174,943 | 97 |
| 2000 | £82,700 | £162,299 | 108 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 85 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 74 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 108 |
| 1996 | £50,500 | £106,502 | 88 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical SO18 4 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 151%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 24% 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 SO18 4 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.6%). 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) | −8.6% | −10.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 4
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in SO18 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
The shape of the SO18 4 market
This is a thin market: 25 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 rental side of SO18 4
SO18 4 falls under Southampton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,250 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £875 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,882, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Southampton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £265,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,250 a month (£15,000 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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.
SO18 4 (Bitterne): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SO18 4 (Bitterne)?
Is SO18 4 (Bitterne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO18 4 (Bitterne)?
What happens to SO18 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.
What you could buy in SO18 now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SO18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO18 1 | £267,000 | 39 |
| SO18 2 | £290,000 | 29 |
| SO18 3 | £325,000 | 35 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO18 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO18 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO18 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO18 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO18 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO18 4 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.
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.