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Marchwood market report SO40, Totton
The SO40 (Marchwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 24,143 registered sales in SO40 (Totton) 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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO40 (Totton) came in at £335,500, out of 219 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £364,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,200 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 24,143 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SO40 is a postcode district covering Totton, Marchwood in Totton. 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 SO40 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 SO40 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SO40 is £335,500, taken from 219 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £364,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SO40 prices by floor area
A square metre of SO40 home has cost about £4,200 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO40 18% above the country at large.
SO40'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 | £335,500 | £335,500 | 219 |
| 2025 | £327,500 | £335,332 | 618 |
| 2024 | £338,700 | £360,108 | 584 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 453 |
| 2022 | £335,000 | £392,826 | 597 |
| 2021 | £311,500 | £394,399 | 752 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 509 |
| 2019 | £277,500 | £363,736 | 545 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 569 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 614 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 665 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 667 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 712 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 697 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 578 |
| 2011 | £197,000 | £297,394 | 535 |
| 2010 | £198,000 | £310,515 | 601 |
| 2009 | £182,200 | £292,888 | 550 |
| 2008 | £192,100 | £314,892 | 478 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 1,011 |
| 2006 | £187,500 | £325,476 | 1,046 |
| 2005 | £173,000 | £307,870 | 862 |
| 2004 | £172,000 | £312,386 | 957 |
| 2003 | £163,200 | £300,654 | 1,032 |
| 2002 | £132,500 | £249,298 | 1,106 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 1,208 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 1,037 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 1,222 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 1,002 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 1,016 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 895 |
| 1995 | £56,400 | £122,605 | 806 |
In cash terms the typical SO40 home went from £56,400 in 1995 to £335,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO40 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 (+23.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.2%). 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, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £478,800 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SO40
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 | £478,800 | 72 | 8,218 |
| Semi-detached | £350,000 | 54 | 6,426 |
| Terraced | £285,000 | 63 | 6,841 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 30 | 2,658 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.4% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 499 sales completed in SO40. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,032 sales a year before the financial crisis and 494 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 homes rent for around SO40
SO40 falls under New Forest, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £335,500 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.
SO40 (Marchwood): the questions that come up
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What happens to SO40 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in SO40 right now
Everything above is what homes in SO40 sold for. The live side of the market holds 72 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the SO40 median sold price.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SO40 ranks 8 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.
SO area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SO40, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SO40 2 | £340,000 | 45 |
| 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 |
How SO40 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 | £347,500 | +9% |
| SO40 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in SO40? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO40, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO40 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO40 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO40.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual SO40 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.