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Compton market report SO21, Winchester
The standing SO21 (Compton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 9,014 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO21 (Winchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO21 (Winchester) came in at £520,000, out of 91 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £600,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,980 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,014 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district SO21 covering Compton, Colden Common, Easton sits in Winchester. 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 SO21 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
In the SO21 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £520,000, from 91 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £600,400, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in SO21
The last five years of sales put SO21 at roughly £4,980 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO21 trades 82% above the country as a whole.
A typical SO21 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £520,000 | £520,000 | 91 |
| 2025 | £580,000 | £593,870 | 211 |
| 2024 | £569,500 | £605,495 | 206 |
| 2023 | £560,000 | £615,303 | 170 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 238 |
| 2021 | £525,000 | £664,718 | 387 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 279 |
| 2019 | £455,000 | £596,396 | 259 |
| 2018 | £405,000 | £539,873 | 233 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 243 |
| 2016 | £415,000 | £580,589 | 267 |
| 2015 | £410,000 | £579,330 | 333 |
| 2014 | £406,000 | £575,982 | 262 |
| 2013 | £330,000 | £474,837 | 277 |
| 2012 | £367,500 | £540,914 | 233 |
| 2011 | £340,000 | £513,269 | 233 |
| 2010 | £340,000 | £533,208 | 250 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 244 |
| 2008 | £300,000 | £491,763 | 216 |
| 2007 | £320,000 | £542,809 | 401 |
| 2006 | £300,000 | £520,762 | 410 |
| 2005 | £296,200 | £527,117 | 292 |
| 2004 | £285,000 | £517,616 | 329 |
| 2003 | £258,500 | £476,220 | 322 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 339 |
| 2001 | £210,000 | £403,714 | 344 |
| 2000 | £180,000 | £353,250 | 288 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 361 |
| 1998 | £139,000 | £280,581 | 301 |
| 1997 | £118,500 | £243,020 | 342 |
| 1996 | £111,200 | £234,516 | 326 |
| 1995 | £96,000 | £208,689 | 327 |
In cash terms the typical SO21 home went from £96,000 in 1995 to £520,000 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% 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 SO21 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 2014 (+23.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.3%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £630,000 against £223,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SO21
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 | £630,000 | 39 | 4,399 |
| Semi-detached | £450,000 | 27 | 2,244 |
| Terraced | £367,500 | 20 | 1,674 |
| Flats | £223,500 | 5 | 697 |
What SO21 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.3% | −12.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 190 sales completed in SO21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 341 sales a year before the financial crisis and 183 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of SO21
The local authority for SO21 is Winchester, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,505 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,014 a month here against £2,247 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Winchester
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £520,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,505 a month (£18,060 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
The shape of the SO21 market
Among the 23 measurable districts of its area, SO21 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Asked and answered: SO21 (Compton)
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What happens to SO21 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in SO21 now
Everything above is what homes in SO21 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 64 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 35% above the SO21 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SO area. 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
SO21 ranks 16 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.
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.
Inside SO21, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SO21 1 | £461,500 | 42 |
| SO21 2 | £730,000 | 23 |
| SO21 3 | £547,500 | 26 |
How SO21 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 (this report) | £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 | £265,000 | +10% |
| SO15 | £255,000 | +11% |
| SO17 | £225,000 | -1% |
| SO14 | £200,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in SO21: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO21, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO21's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO21 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SO21: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO21.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SO21. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO21 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.