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Botley market report SO30, Southampton
The standing SO30 (Botley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 22,021 registered sales in SO30 (Southampton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SO30 (Southampton) home changed hands for £347,500 in 2026 (median of 223 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £370,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,040 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 22,021 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SO30 is the postcode district covering Botley, Hedge End, West End in Southampton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SO30 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 buyers actually paid in SO30
Take the 223 registered 2026 sales in SO30 and the middle price, the median, is £347,500. The mean lands at £370,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SO30
By floor space, homes in SO30 have sold for about £4,040 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO30 sits 22% above the national market.
SO30's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £347,500 | £347,500 | 223 |
| 2025 | £345,700 | £353,967 | 564 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 558 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 549 |
| 2022 | £346,500 | £406,311 | 668 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 707 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 542 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 590 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 649 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 587 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 584 |
| 2015 | £243,000 | £343,359 | 637 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 636 |
| 2013 | £227,000 | £326,630 | 671 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 493 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 522 |
| 2010 | £211,500 | £331,686 | 418 |
| 2009 | £192,800 | £309,928 | 476 |
| 2008 | £208,000 | £340,956 | 483 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 959 |
| 2006 | £199,000 | £345,439 | 861 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 675 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 853 |
| 2003 | £171,000 | £315,023 | 779 |
| 2002 | £147,000 | £276,579 | 941 |
| 2001 | £118,000 | £226,849 | 850 |
| 2000 | £103,500 | £203,119 | 788 |
| 1999 | £89,100 | £177,572 | 1,012 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 907 |
| 1997 | £76,500 | £156,886 | 1,117 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 984 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 738 |
In cash terms the typical SO30 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £347,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO30 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 (−7.3%). 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) | +0.5% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £470,000 against £167,800 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SO30
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 | £470,000 | 78 | 7,888 |
| Semi-detached | £341,000 | 58 | 5,461 |
| Terraced | £281,000 | 53 | 5,900 |
| Flats | £167,800 | 34 | 2,772 |
The turnover behind the prices
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 444 sales completed in SO30. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 838 sales a year before the financial crisis and 512 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.
Rents around SO30
The local authority for SO30 is Eastleigh, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £347,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,210 a month (£14,520 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
Asked and answered: SO30 (Botley)
Is SO30 (Botley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO30 (Botley)?
Are property prices falling in SO30 (Botley)?
Are SO30 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 is for sale in SO30 right now
Everything above is what homes in SO30 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 28 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the SO30 median sold price.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SO30 ranks 7 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SO30, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO30 0 | £357,500 | 51 |
| SO30 2 | £326,000 | 90 |
| SO30 3 | £335,000 | 46 |
| SO30 4 | £375,000 | 36 |
How SO30 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 (this report) | £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 SO30: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO30, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO30 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO30 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.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual SO30 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.