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Botley market report SO30 3, Southampton
The SO30 3 (Botley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,137 HM Land Registry entries for SO30 3 (Southampton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SO30 3 (Southampton) is £335,000, from 46 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £364,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,137 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SO30 3 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 3 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.
Today's SO30 3 prices, from the sold record
46 sales were registered in SO30 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £335,000. The mean works out at £364,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SO30 3
A square metre of SO30 3 home has cost about £3,880 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO30 3 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
SO30 3's median sold price, 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 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £318,500 | £326,116 | 92 |
| 2024 | £322,000 | £342,352 | 95 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 119 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 155 |
| 2021 | £318,000 | £402,629 | 140 |
| 2020 | £330,000 | £428,182 | 115 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 143 |
| 2018 | £287,200 | £382,843 | 158 |
| 2017 | £279,500 | £381,210 | 140 |
| 2016 | £273,500 | £382,629 | 116 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 136 |
| 2014 | £224,200 | £318,067 | 112 |
| 2013 | £217,500 | £312,961 | 120 |
| 2012 | £218,500 | £321,605 | 94 |
| 2011 | £234,000 | £353,250 | 80 |
| 2010 | £217,500 | £341,096 | 75 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 79 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 81 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 162 |
| 2006 | £196,400 | £340,925 | 189 |
| 2005 | £188,000 | £334,564 | 127 |
| 2004 | £202,500 | £367,780 | 165 |
| 2003 | £177,600 | £327,182 | 150 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 185 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 137 |
| 2000 | £127,000 | £249,238 | 147 |
| 1999 | £99,900 | £199,095 | 207 |
| 1998 | £81,000 | £163,504 | 145 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 132 |
| 1996 | £75,800 | £159,859 | 144 |
| 1995 | £68,800 | £149,561 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical SO30 3 home went from £68,800 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO30 3 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 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SO30 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in SO30 3
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in SO30 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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.
What kind of market SO30 3 is
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO30 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around SO30 3
The local authority for SO30 3 is Eastleigh, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,210 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £859 a month here against £1,866 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Eastleigh
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £335,000 median sold price, £1,210 a month is £14,520 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 3 (Botley)
Is SO30 3 (Botley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO30 3 (Botley)?
Are property prices falling in SO30 3 (Botley)?
Are SO30 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 SO30 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 28 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO30 district, not just SO30 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £326,000 | 90 |
| 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 a home in SO30 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO30 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO30 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO30 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO30 3.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual SO30 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.