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Sholing market report SO19, Southampton
The SO19 (Sholing) 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: 28,595 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO19 (Southampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SO19 (Southampton) sold for £265,000 in 2026, the median of 299 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £265,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,340 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 28,595 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district SO19 covering Sholing, Merry Oak, Thornhill sits in Southampton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SO19 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.
SO19 sold prices: where the market stands
The SO19 median stands at £265,000 for 2026, built from 299 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £265,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in SO19
Per square metre, SO19 homes have averaged around £3,340 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO19 sits 7% below the national market.
The price of a typical SO19 home, 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 | 299 |
| 2025 | £268,000 | £274,409 | 721 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 745 |
| 2023 | £252,000 | £276,886 | 669 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 821 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 923 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 633 |
| 2019 | £217,500 | £285,090 | 781 |
| 2018 | £219,000 | £291,931 | 870 |
| 2017 | £212,500 | £289,829 | 924 |
| 2016 | £203,000 | £283,999 | 958 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 948 |
| 2014 | £167,000 | £236,919 | 862 |
| 2013 | £155,500 | £223,749 | 717 |
| 2012 | £152,500 | £224,461 | 651 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 588 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 538 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 507 |
| 2008 | £152,700 | £250,308 | 636 |
| 2007 | £158,000 | £268,012 | 1,154 |
| 2006 | £148,000 | £256,909 | 1,242 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 913 |
| 2004 | £137,000 | £248,819 | 1,166 |
| 2003 | £126,000 | £232,123 | 1,064 |
| 2002 | £105,400 | £198,309 | 1,374 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 1,207 |
| 2000 | £73,700 | £144,636 | 1,134 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 1,194 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 1,141 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 1,206 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 1,096 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 913 |
In cash terms the typical SO19 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 149%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO19 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 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−6.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £332,000 against £154,300 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SO19
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £332,000 | 51 | 5,098 |
| Semi-detached | £294,000 | 101 | 9,131 |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 93 | 7,843 |
| Flats | £154,300 | 54 | 6,523 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SO19 recorded 613 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 651 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 rental side of SO19
SO19 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.
Set against the £265,000 median sold price, £1,250 a month is £15,000 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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 SO19 trades
In its area's price order SO19 comes 20 of 23, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: SO19 (Sholing)
Is SO19 (Sholing) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO19 (Sholing)?
Are property prices falling in SO19 (Sholing)?
Are SO19 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 is for sale in SO19 right now
Everything above is what homes in SO19 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 104 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the SO19 median sold price.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 SO19 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SO19 ranks 5 of 23 in the SO area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SO area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SO19, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO19 0 | £275,000 | 16 |
| SO19 1 | £250,000 | 17 |
| SO19 2 | £275,000 | 34 |
| SO19 4 | £400,000 | 9 |
| SO19 5 | £320,000 | 10 |
| SO19 6 | £255,000 | 33 |
| SO19 7 | £270,000 | 39 |
| SO19 8 | £262,000 | 61 |
| SO19 9 | £250,000 | 80 |
How SO19 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SO42 | £790,000 | +11% |
| SO20 | £575,000 | -10% |
| SO22 | £551,200 | -2% |
| SO24 | £525,000 | +7% |
| SO21 | £520,000 | -1% |
| SO41 | £500,000 | +5% |
| SO43 | £475,000 | +2% |
| SO23 | £450,000 | -8% |
| SO32 | £447,500 | -3% |
| SO51 | £405,000 | -1% |
| SO53 | £380,000 | -1% |
| SO52 | £357,500 | +11% |
| SO31 | £355,000 | -1% |
| SO30 | £347,500 | +9% |
| SO40 | £335,500 | +8% |
| SO50 | £321,000 | +5% |
| SO45 | £315,000 | +2% |
| SO18 | £284,000 | +14% |
| SO16 | £273,000 | +9% |
| SO19 (this report) | £265,000 | +10% |
| SO15 | £255,000 | +11% |
| SO17 | £225,000 | -1% |
| SO14 | £200,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in SO19: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO19'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO19.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO19. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SO19 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.