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Minstead market report SO43, Lyndhurst
The standing SO43 (Minstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,483 registered sales in SO43 (Lyndhurst) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SO43 (Lyndhurst) came in at £475,000, out of 27 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £673,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,470 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,483 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district SO43 covering Lyndhurst, Minstead, Bramshaw sits in Lyndhurst. 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 SO43 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 SO43 homes really sell for
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in SO43 and the middle price, the median, is £475,000. The mean lands at £673,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in SO43
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SO43 sales average about £5,470 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO43 sits 67% above the national market.
The price of a typical SO43 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 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 88 |
| 2024 | £558,800 | £594,119 | 60 |
| 2023 | £485,000 | £532,897 | 43 |
| 2022 | £600,500 | £704,155 | 62 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 82 |
| 2020 | £440,000 | £570,909 | 57 |
| 2019 | £435,000 | £570,181 | 63 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 67 |
| 2017 | £396,200 | £540,377 | 67 |
| 2016 | £342,500 | £479,161 | 76 |
| 2015 | £317,000 | £447,921 | 83 |
| 2014 | £326,000 | £462,488 | 86 |
| 2013 | £414,800 | £596,856 | 78 |
| 2012 | £331,800 | £488,368 | 62 |
| 2011 | £320,000 | £483,077 | 65 |
| 2010 | £327,500 | £513,604 | 61 |
| 2009 | £304,500 | £489,486 | 53 |
| 2008 | £340,000 | £557,332 | 53 |
| 2007 | £340,000 | £576,735 | 85 |
| 2006 | £304,500 | £528,573 | 112 |
| 2005 | £298,000 | £530,320 | 86 |
| 2004 | £278,500 | £505,810 | 90 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 80 |
| 2002 | £215,000 | £404,521 | 97 |
| 2001 | £195,000 | £374,878 | 100 |
| 2000 | £175,000 | £343,438 | 95 |
| 1999 | £173,800 | £346,374 | 112 |
| 1998 | £121,000 | £244,247 | 101 |
| 1997 | £115,500 | £236,867 | 87 |
| 1996 | £90,800 | £191,493 | 120 |
| 1995 | £99,000 | £215,211 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical SO43 home went from £99,000 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 121%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 33% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO43 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 1999 (+43.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−21.4%). 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, 47% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £852,500 against £280,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SO43
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 | £692,500 | 11 | 1,162 |
| Semi-detached | £427,300 | 7 | 602 |
| Terraced | £418,500 | 6 | 135 |
| Flats | £280,000 (2025) | – | 550 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SO43
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.
SO43 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 93 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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.
The shape of the SO43 market
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO43 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around SO43
The local authority for SO43 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.
Against the £475,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,240 a month (£14,880 a year) works out at a 3.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
SO43 (Minstead): the questions that come up
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What happens to SO43 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
SO43's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SO43 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 34 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the SO43 median sold price.
34% 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.
- Emery Down, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, SO43
- Pemberton Road, Lyndhurst, Hampshire,...
- Kings Close, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, SO43
"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 SO43 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in SO
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SO43 ranks 12 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SO43, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO43 7 | £475,000 | 27 |
How SO43 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in SO43? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO43'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.
Estate agents working SO43: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO43.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO43. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO43 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.
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.