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Marchwood market report SO40 2, Totton
The SO40 2 (Marchwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,425 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO40 2 (Totton) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO40 2 (Totton) came in at £340,000, out of 45 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £415,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,190 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,425 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SO40 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO40 (Totton). 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 SO40 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 buyers actually paid in SO40 2
Across 45 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO40 2 home went for £340,000. The mean is £415,400, 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 SO40 2
Per square metre, SO40 2 homes have averaged around £4,190 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SO40 2 runs 19% above it.
The price of a typical SO40 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 114 |
| 2024 | £347,500 | £369,464 | 107 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 84 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 105 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 133 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 93 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 106 |
| 2018 | £238,000 | £317,258 | 105 |
| 2017 | £262,500 | £358,024 | 109 |
| 2016 | £242,000 | £338,560 | 147 |
| 2015 | £236,000 | £333,468 | 135 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 138 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 105 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 105 |
| 2011 | £186,500 | £281,543 | 86 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 103 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 99 |
| 2008 | £186,000 | £304,893 | 89 |
| 2007 | £189,200 | £320,936 | 180 |
| 2006 | £172,000 | £298,570 | 202 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 159 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 167 |
| 2003 | £176,000 | £324,235 | 277 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 200 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 203 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 158 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 196 |
| 1998 | £68,500 | £138,272 | 182 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 173 |
| 1996 | £56,200 | £118,523 | 169 |
| 1995 | £53,500 | £116,301 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical SO40 2 home went from £53,500 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 192%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO40 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 (+39.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−14.0%). 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) | +3.0% | +0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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, 45 sales completed in SO40 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 193 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of SO40 2
The local authority for SO40 2 is New Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,240 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £861 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,984, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, New Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,240 a month is £14,880 a year, which against the £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the SO40 2 market
This is a thin market: 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Common questions on SO40 2 (Marchwood)
Is SO40 2 (Marchwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO40 2 (Marchwood)?
Are property prices falling in SO40 2 (Marchwood)?
Where do SO40 2 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in SO40 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 72 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO40 district, not just SO40 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Durley Crescent, Totton, Southampton
- Admiralty Way, Marchwood, Southampton...
- Reynolds Dale, Ashurst, 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 SO40 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SO40
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SO40, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO40 3 | £331,500 | 42 |
| SO40 4 | £298,500 | 32 |
| SO40 7 | £475,000 | 22 |
| SO40 8 | £320,000 | 48 |
| SO40 9 | £337,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full SO40 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO40 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SO40 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO40 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO40 2.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every SO40 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.
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.