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Compton market report SO21 1, Winchester
The SO21 1 (Compton) 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: 3,525 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO21 1 (Winchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO21 1 (Winchester) came in at £461,500, out of 42 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £538,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,060 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,525 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SO21 1 is a single group of streets within SO21 (Winchester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SO21 1 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.
The going rate for a home in SO21 1
The SO21 1 median stands at £461,500 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £538,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in SO21 1
By floor space, homes in SO21 1 have sold for about £5,060 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO21 1 62% above the country at large.
A typical SO21 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £461,500 | £461,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £532,500 | £545,234 | 92 |
| 2024 | £494,800 | £526,074 | 80 |
| 2023 | £536,200 | £589,153 | 70 |
| 2022 | £540,000 | £633,212 | 93 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 154 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 132 |
| 2019 | £378,800 | £496,516 | 112 |
| 2018 | £392,500 | £523,210 | 92 |
| 2017 | £440,000 | £600,116 | 93 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 119 |
| 2015 | £410,000 | £579,330 | 141 |
| 2014 | £415,000 | £588,750 | 89 |
| 2013 | £343,500 | £494,262 | 108 |
| 2012 | £342,500 | £504,117 | 88 |
| 2011 | £344,800 | £520,515 | 94 |
| 2010 | £358,000 | £561,436 | 85 |
| 2009 | £295,000 | £474,215 | 109 |
| 2008 | £280,500 | £459,799 | 98 |
| 2007 | £324,200 | £549,933 | 140 |
| 2006 | £286,000 | £496,459 | 137 |
| 2005 | £305,000 | £542,777 | 107 |
| 2004 | £290,000 | £526,697 | 119 |
| 2003 | £270,000 | £497,405 | 137 |
| 2002 | £206,700 | £388,904 | 120 |
| 2001 | £187,500 | £360,459 | 126 |
| 2000 | £171,200 | £335,980 | 112 |
| 1999 | £141,500 | £282,002 | 114 |
| 1998 | £138,800 | £280,178 | 94 |
| 1997 | £111,000 | £227,639 | 156 |
| 1996 | £110,000 | £231,985 | 135 |
| 1995 | £102,000 | £221,732 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical SO21 1 home went from £102,000 in 1995 to £461,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 108%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO21 1 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 2003 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.5%). 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) | −13.3% | −15.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in SO21 1
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 42 SO21 1 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 125 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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 rental side of SO21 1
SO21 1 falls under Winchester, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,505 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,014 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,247 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Winchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £461,500 median sold price, £1,505 a month is £18,060 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: 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.
The shape of the SO21 1 market
This is a thin market: 42 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within SO21, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about SO21 1 (Compton)
Is SO21 1 (Compton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO21 1 (Compton)?
Are property prices falling in SO21 1 (Compton)?
Are SO21 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SO21 right now
The live side of the market holds 64 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO21 district, not just SO21 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Otterbourne Hill, Otterbourne, SO21
- Boyes Lane, Colden Common, SO21, Winchester
- High Street, Twyford, SO21, Winchester
"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 SO21 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. 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.
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 SO21
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SO21, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO21 2 | £730,000 | 23 |
| SO21 3 | £547,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full SO21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SO21 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO21 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO21 1.
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See every individual SO21 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.