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Bitterne market report SO18 5, Southampton
The SO18 5 (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: 3,555 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO18 5 (Southampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 52 registered 2026 sales put the SO18 5 (Southampton) median at £277,500, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £273,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,555 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SO18 5 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 5 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 5 prices, from the sold record
52 sales were registered in SO18 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £277,500. The mean works out at £273,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SO18 5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SO18 5 homes have averaged around £3,260 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO18 5 3% below the country at large.
A typical SO18 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £277,500 | £277,500 | 52 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 92 |
| 2024 | £272,500 | £289,723 | 88 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 101 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 121 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 116 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 95 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 102 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 101 |
| 2017 | £226,100 | £308,378 | 136 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 133 |
| 2015 | £184,500 | £260,699 | 114 |
| 2014 | £172,500 | £244,721 | 99 |
| 2013 | £162,000 | £233,102 | 96 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 94 |
| 2011 | £155,500 | £234,745 | 68 |
| 2010 | £158,500 | £248,569 | 72 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 79 |
| 2008 | £162,000 | £265,552 | 67 |
| 2007 | £164,500 | £279,038 | 147 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 186 |
| 2005 | £139,500 | £248,254 | 118 |
| 2004 | £138,000 | £250,635 | 133 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 153 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 151 |
| 2001 | £91,200 | £175,327 | 132 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 129 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 131 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 125 |
| 1997 | £53,500 | £109,718 | 107 |
| 1996 | £50,500 | £106,502 | 105 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical SO18 5 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £277,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO18 5 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 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.4%). 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) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 52 SO18 5 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 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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.
Reading the SO18 5 market
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO18 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around SO18 5
For renting purposes SO18 5 sits in Southampton. The ONS average private rent there is £1,250 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, which against the £277,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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.
SO18 5 (Bitterne): the questions that come up
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What happens to SO18 5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in SO18 now
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 5: 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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%) | — |
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £325,000 | 35 |
| SO18 4 | £265,000 | 25 |
| 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 5? 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 5'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 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO18 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SO18 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO18 5 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.