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Botley market report SO30 2, Southampton
The standing SO30 2 (Botley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 10,019 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO30 2 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SO30 2 (Southampton) home changed hands for £326,000 in 2026 (median of 90 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £375,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 10,019 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SO30 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO30 (Southampton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SO30 2 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 a home in SO30 2 sells for
The 2026 median for SO30 2 is £326,000, taken from 90 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £375,200, 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 SO30 2
By floor space, homes in SO30 2 have sold for about £4,120 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO30 2 trades 14% above the country as a whole.
A typical SO30 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £326,000 | £326,000 | 90 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 258 |
| 2024 | £336,000 | £357,237 | 252 |
| 2023 | £339,500 | £373,028 | 230 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 300 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 309 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 246 |
| 2019 | £299,000 | £391,917 | 216 |
| 2018 | £285,500 | £380,577 | 236 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 204 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 249 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 274 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 262 |
| 2013 | £235,500 | £338,861 | 318 |
| 2012 | £218,500 | £321,605 | 206 |
| 2011 | £213,000 | £321,548 | 235 |
| 2010 | £212,000 | £332,471 | 197 |
| 2009 | £193,500 | £311,053 | 241 |
| 2008 | £218,000 | £357,348 | 245 |
| 2007 | £221,500 | £375,726 | 467 |
| 2006 | £196,000 | £340,231 | 327 |
| 2005 | £191,700 | £341,149 | 300 |
| 2004 | £184,000 | £334,180 | 371 |
| 2003 | £169,500 | £312,260 | 358 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 397 |
| 2001 | £122,000 | £234,539 | 415 |
| 2000 | £98,800 | £193,895 | 373 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 437 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 475 |
| 1997 | £81,000 | £166,115 | 651 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 527 |
| 1995 | £76,000 | £165,212 | 353 |
In cash terms the typical SO30 2 home went from £76,000 in 1995 to £326,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 97%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO30 2 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 (+24.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.2%). 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) | −9.4% | −11.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 90 sales completed in SO30 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 376 sales a year before the financial crisis and 226 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.
Rents around SO30 2
SO30 2 falls under Eastleigh, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,210 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £859 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,866, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Eastleigh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £326,000 median sold price, £1,210 a month is £14,520 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: SO30 2 (Botley)
Are property prices falling in SO30 2 (Botley)?
Is SO30 2 (Botley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO30 2 (Botley)?
Will SO30 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SO30's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 28 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO30 district, not just SO30 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Flat 10, Kenilworth House, 3 Telegraph Road, Southampton
- Kenilworth Gardens, West End, Southam...
- Deer Walk, Hedge End, Southampton
"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 SO30 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%) | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SO30
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO30, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO30 0 | £357,500 | 51 |
| SO30 3 | £335,000 | 46 |
| SO30 4 | £375,000 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full SO30 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO30 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SO30 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO30 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO30 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO30 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO30 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO30 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO30 2 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.