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Marchwood market report SO40 3, Totton
The standing SO40 3 (Marchwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,309 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO40 3 (Totton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SO40 3 (Totton) sold for £331,500 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £318,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,000 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,309 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SO40 3 is one sector of SO40 (Totton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SO40 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.
SO40 3 sold prices: where the market stands
42 sales were registered in SO40 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £331,500. The mean works out at £318,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SO40 3 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in SO40 3 have sold for about £4,000 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, SO40 3 sits 16% above the national market.
The price of a typical SO40 3 home, 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 | £331,500 | £331,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £322,000 | £329,700 | 126 |
| 2024 | £320,500 | £340,757 | 115 |
| 2023 | £296,000 | £325,232 | 92 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 119 |
| 2021 | £297,000 | £376,040 | 143 |
| 2020 | £279,000 | £362,008 | 95 |
| 2019 | £268,500 | £351,939 | 118 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 111 |
| 2017 | £268,000 | £365,525 | 122 |
| 2016 | £254,200 | £355,628 | 126 |
| 2015 | £222,000 | £313,686 | 137 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 137 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 148 |
| 2012 | £197,500 | £290,695 | 133 |
| 2011 | £199,500 | £301,168 | 98 |
| 2010 | £189,000 | £296,401 | 109 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 109 |
| 2008 | £191,700 | £314,237 | 110 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 237 |
| 2006 | £188,500 | £327,212 | 175 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 148 |
| 2004 | £174,500 | £316,926 | 188 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 151 |
| 2002 | £128,500 | £241,772 | 176 |
| 2001 | £110,500 | £212,431 | 176 |
| 2000 | £104,200 | £204,493 | 136 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 184 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 133 |
| 1997 | £71,500 | £146,632 | 143 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 130 |
| 1995 | £57,200 | £124,344 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical SO40 3 home went from £57,200 in 1995 to £331,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 167%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO40 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 2003 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−10.3%). 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) | +3.0% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
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.
SO40 3 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 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 SO40 3
For renting purposes SO40 3 sits in New Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £1,240 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £861 a month here against £1,984 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, New Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £331,500 median sold price, £1,240 a month is £14,880 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.
How SO40 3 trades
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO40 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about SO40 3 (Marchwood)
Are property prices falling in SO40 3 (Marchwood)?
Is SO40 3 (Marchwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO40 3 (Marchwood)?
Will SO40 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SO40's current homes for sale
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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.
- Durley Crescent, Totton, Southampton
- Admiralty Way, Marchwood, Southampton...
- Reynolds Dale, Ashurst, Southampton, ...
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SO40 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
SO area districts: five years of change
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 2 | £340,000 | 45 |
| 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.
Selling a home in SO40 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 SO40 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO40 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO40 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SO40 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO40 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO40 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SO40 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.