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Beaulieu market report SO42, Brockenhurst
The SO42 (Beaulieu) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,557 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO42 (Brockenhurst) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SO42 (Brockenhurst) is £790,000, from 27 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £826,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,210 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,557 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district SO42 covering Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, East Boldre sits in Brockenhurst. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SO42 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 SO42 homes really sell for
In the SO42 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £790,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £826,400, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in SO42
Per square metre, SO42 homes have averaged around £6,210 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO42 sits 177% above the national market.
A typical SO42 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £790,000 | £790,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £822,500 | £842,168 | 70 |
| 2024 | £797,600 | £848,013 | 56 |
| 2023 | £845,000 | £928,449 | 63 |
| 2022 | £841,200 | £986,403 | 82 |
| 2021 | £710,000 | £898,952 | 88 |
| 2020 | £671,800 | £871,674 | 88 |
| 2019 | £697,500 | £914,256 | 66 |
| 2018 | £690,000 | £919,783 | 69 |
| 2017 | £652,500 | £889,944 | 74 |
| 2016 | £630,000 | £881,376 | 77 |
| 2015 | £527,500 | £745,358 | 73 |
| 2014 | £480,000 | £680,964 | 87 |
| 2013 | £500,000 | £719,450 | 81 |
| 2012 | £522,500 | £769,055 | 62 |
| 2011 | £547,500 | £826,514 | 62 |
| 2010 | £500,000 | £784,129 | 79 |
| 2009 | £456,500 | £733,828 | 82 |
| 2008 | £488,500 | £800,755 | 58 |
| 2007 | £430,000 | £729,400 | 102 |
| 2006 | £412,500 | £716,047 | 122 |
| 2005 | £400,000 | £711,839 | 85 |
| 2004 | £435,000 | £790,045 | 95 |
| 2003 | £310,000 | £571,095 | 86 |
| 2002 | £315,000 | £592,670 | 90 |
| 2001 | £305,000 | £586,347 | 92 |
| 2000 | £218,800 | £429,395 | 82 |
| 1999 | £194,000 | £386,632 | 113 |
| 1998 | £166,700 | £336,496 | 75 |
| 1997 | £170,000 | £348,636 | 89 |
| 1996 | £146,000 | £307,907 | 102 |
| 1995 | £151,000 | £328,251 | 80 |
In cash terms the typical SO42 home went from £151,000 in 1995 to £790,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 141%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% 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, 2005 (−8.0%). 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, 65% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,050,000 against £110,000 for a flat, 9.5 times the price.
Median by property type, SO42
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 | £911,900 | 19 | 1,624 |
| Semi-detached | £952,500 (2025) | – | 444 |
| Terraced | £575,000 (2025) | – | 140 |
| Flats | £110,000 (2025) | – | 306 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.0% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 63 sales completed in SO42. 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 60 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.
How SO42 trades
This is a thin market: 63 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. SO42 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
The rental side of SO42
SO42 falls under New Forest, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,240 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £861 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,984 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £790,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 1.9%. 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.
What people ask about SO42 (Beaulieu)
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What happens to SO42 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 you could buy in SO42 now
Everything above is what homes in SO42 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 18 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the SO42 median sold price.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Rise, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, Brockenhurst
- East Boldre, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, Brockenhurst
- Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, Brockenhurst
"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 SO42 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SO area. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SO42 ranks 2 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 SO42, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SO42 7 | £790,000 | 27 |
How SO42 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SO42 (this report) | £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 | £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 SO42? 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 SO42'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 SO42.
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The live map plots every individual SO42 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.