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Bitterne market report SO18 6, Southampton
The standing SO18 6 (Bitterne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,820 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO18 6 (Southampton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: a typical SO18 6 (Southampton) home changed hands for £300,000 in 2026 (median of 23 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £283,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,820 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SO18 6 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 6 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 buyers actually paid in SO18 6
Across 23 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO18 6 home went for £300,000. The mean is £283,500, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
Price per square metre in SO18 6
A square metre of SO18 6 home has cost about £3,290 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SO18 6 runs 5% above it.
SO18 6'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 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 48 |
| 2024 | £213,500 | £226,994 | 43 |
| 2023 | £257,800 | £283,259 | 50 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 41 |
| 2021 | £267,000 | £338,056 | 63 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 43 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 41 |
| 2018 | £228,000 | £303,928 | 59 |
| 2017 | £208,000 | £283,691 | 61 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 63 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 57 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 60 |
| 2013 | £176,200 | £253,534 | 46 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 37 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 50 |
| 2010 | £159,000 | £249,353 | 28 |
| 2009 | £151,000 | £242,734 | 49 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 30 |
| 2007 | £171,500 | £290,912 | 85 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 92 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 84 |
| 2004 | £156,500 | £284,235 | 72 |
| 2003 | £141,000 | £259,756 | 91 |
| 2002 | £109,000 | £205,083 | 50 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 59 |
| 2000 | £90,500 | £177,606 | 70 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 65 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 65 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 78 |
| 1996 | £50,500 | £106,502 | 62 |
| 1995 | £52,600 | £114,344 | 55 |
In cash terms the typical SO18 6 home went from £52,600 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 162%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO18 6 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 (+50.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−17.2%). 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) | +27.7% | +24.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in SO18 6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SO18 6 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 75 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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.
What tenants pay around SO18 6
The local authority for SO18 6 is Southampton, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £300,000 median sold price, £1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How SO18 6 trades
This is a thin market: 23 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.
Asked and answered: SO18 6 (Bitterne)
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What happens to SO18 6 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% 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.
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SO prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, 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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, SO area districts
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 1 | £267,000 | 39 |
| SO18 2 | £290,000 | 29 |
| SO18 3 | £325,000 | 35 |
| SO18 4 | £265,000 | 25 |
| SO18 5 | £277,500 | 52 |
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 6? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO18 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO18 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO18 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO18 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO18 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO18 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.