Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,662 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO42 (Brockenhurst) 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 March 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
SO42 is the postcode district covering Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, East Boldre in Brockenhurst. 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 SO42 sits
Click the map to open SO42 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£645,000median sold price, 2026
-8%five-year change (cash)
80sales in the last 12 months
2.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in SO42 sells for
The 2026 median in SO42 is £645,000, from 15 registered sales; the mean, £756,100, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so SO42 trades 135% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SO42 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£645,000
£645,000
15
2025
£807,500
£807,500
76
2024
£795,200
£825,716
65
2023
£800,000
£858,476
77
2022
£895,000
£1,024,979
89
2021
£700,000
£865,591
105
2020
£685,000
£868,044
99
2019
£697,500
£892,904
76
2018
£647,500
£842,972
84
2017
£645,000
£859,170
89
2016
£632,500
£864,208
84
2015
£535,000
£738,300
75
2014
£482,500
£668,524
90
2013
£497,500
£699,134
82
2012
£522,500
£751,094
62
2011
£547,500
£807,212
62
2010
£500,000
£765,816
79
2009
£456,500
£716,689
82
2008
£488,500
£782,053
58
2007
£430,000
£712,365
102
2006
£412,500
£699,324
122
2005
£400,000
£695,214
85
2004
£435,000
£771,594
95
2003
£310,000
£557,757
86
2002
£315,000
£578,828
90
2001
£305,000
£572,653
92
2000
£218,800
£419,367
82
1999
£194,000
£377,602
113
1998
£166,700
£328,637
75
1997
£170,000
£340,493
89
1996
£146,000
£300,716
102
1995
£151,000
£320,585
80
In cash terms the typical SO42 home went from £151,000 in 1995 to £645,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 101%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 37% 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 SO42 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 2004 (+40.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.1%). 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)
−20.1%
−20.1%
5 years (since 2021)
−1.6%
−5.7%
10 years (since 2016)
+0.2%
−2.9%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.3%
−0.4%
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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SO42 recorded 80 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
What homes rent for around SO42
SO42 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.
Set against the £645,000 median sold price, £1,240 a month is £14,880 a year, a gross yield of 2.3%: 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.
Will SO42 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
SO42 ranks 21 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SO42, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.