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Warsash market report SO31, Southampton
The SO31 (Warsash) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 29,532 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO31 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SO31 (Southampton) is £355,000, from 305 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £403,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 29,532 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SO31 is a postcode district covering Warsash, Hamble-le-Rice, Locks Heath Netley Abbey in Southampton. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SO31 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 SO31 sells for
Across 305 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO31 home went for £355,000. The mean is £403,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SO31
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SO31 costs about £4,150 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO31 25% above the country at large.
SO31'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 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 305 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 828 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 771 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 608 |
| 2022 | £382,200 | £448,173 | 868 |
| 2021 | £357,200 | £452,261 | 1,074 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 816 |
| 2019 | £327,200 | £428,881 | 918 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 965 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 904 |
| 2016 | £299,500 | £419,003 | 970 |
| 2015 | £279,000 | £394,227 | 932 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 938 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 753 |
| 2012 | £239,700 | £352,808 | 704 |
| 2011 | £237,200 | £358,081 | 620 |
| 2010 | £232,500 | £364,620 | 592 |
| 2009 | £211,000 | £339,184 | 713 |
| 2008 | £217,000 | £355,709 | 595 |
| 2007 | £232,000 | £393,537 | 1,109 |
| 2006 | £216,500 | £375,816 | 1,339 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 976 |
| 2004 | £198,500 | £360,515 | 1,134 |
| 2003 | £173,500 | £319,629 | 1,024 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 1,208 |
| 2001 | £132,000 | £253,763 | 1,149 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 1,100 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 1,231 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 1,076 |
| 1997 | £77,500 | £158,937 | 1,303 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 1,183 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 826 |
In cash terms the typical SO31 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO31 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.8%). 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, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £550,000 against £200,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SO31
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 | £550,000 | 123 | 11,804 |
| Semi-detached | £348,000 | 67 | 7,154 |
| Terraced | £289,000 | 62 | 6,286 |
| Flats | £200,000 | 53 | 4,288 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.8% | −9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SO31
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 671 SO31 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 1,130 sales a year before the financial crisis and 676 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 tenants pay around SO31
SO31 falls under Fareham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,213 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £857 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,997, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Fareham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £355,000 median sold price, £1,213 a month is £14,556 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
What people ask about SO31 (Warsash)
Is SO31 (Warsash) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO31 (Warsash)?
Are property prices falling in SO31 (Warsash)?
Are SO31 prices heading up or down?
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.
On the market in SO31 today
Everything above is what homes in SO31 sold for. The live side of the market holds 57 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the SO31 median sold price.
39% 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.
- Moore Crescent, Netley Abbey, Southampton
- Barton Drive, Hamble, SO31 4RE, Southampton
- Moore Crescent, Netley Abbey, Southampton, 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 SO31 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.
What another bedroom costs 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SO31 ranks 14 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.
Five-year change in the median, SO area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SO31, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO31 1 | £345,000 | 21 |
| SO31 4 | £327,000 | 20 |
| SO31 5 | £308,500 | 30 |
| SO31 6 | £351,000 | 76 |
| SO31 7 | £394,000 | 52 |
| SO31 8 | £320,000 | 63 |
| SO31 9 | £575,000 | 43 |
How SO31 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in SO31? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO31, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO31's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO31 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO31.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO31 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO31 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.
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.