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Hythe market report SO45 1, Southampton
The standing SO45 1 (Hythe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,115 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO45 1 (Southampton) 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the SO45 1 (Southampton) median at £335,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £366,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,115 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SO45 1 is a single group of streets within SO45 (Southampton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SO45 1 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.
SO45 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO45 1 home went for £335,000. The mean is £366,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SO45 1
Per square metre, SO45 1 homes have averaged around £3,940 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SO45 1 18% above the national figure.
A typical SO45 1 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 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 100 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 70 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 60 |
| 2022 | £332,200 | £389,542 | 86 |
| 2021 | £331,000 | £419,089 | 128 |
| 2020 | £292,500 | £379,525 | 76 |
| 2019 | £311,000 | £407,647 | 112 |
| 2018 | £292,500 | £389,908 | 72 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 104 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 90 |
| 2015 | £252,000 | £356,076 | 105 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 107 |
| 2013 | £219,000 | £315,119 | 86 |
| 2012 | £229,600 | £337,943 | 72 |
| 2011 | £212,200 | £320,340 | 72 |
| 2010 | £217,800 | £341,566 | 68 |
| 2009 | £194,000 | £311,857 | 74 |
| 2008 | £208,600 | £341,939 | 83 |
| 2007 | £208,000 | £352,826 | 115 |
| 2006 | £193,000 | £335,023 | 117 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 85 |
| 2004 | £196,000 | £355,974 | 113 |
| 2003 | £160,500 | £295,680 | 110 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 127 |
| 2001 | £124,700 | £239,729 | 120 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 117 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 153 |
| 1998 | £82,800 | £167,138 | 140 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 127 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 110 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical SO45 1 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO45 1 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 2000 (+31.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.3% | −6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SO45 1 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
The shape of the SO45 1 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO45 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of SO45 1
For renting purposes SO45 1 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 £335,000 median sold price, £1,240 a month is £14,880 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
Asked and answered: SO45 1 (Hythe)
Are property prices falling in SO45 1 (Hythe)?
Is SO45 1 (Hythe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO45 1 (Hythe)?
Where do SO45 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
On the market in SO45 today
The live side of the market holds 59 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO45 district, not just SO45 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SO45 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the SO area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SO45
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SO45's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO45 2 | £295,000 | 47 |
| SO45 3 | £307,500 | 20 |
| SO45 4 | £375,000 | 29 |
| SO45 5 | £277,500 | 40 |
| SO45 6 | £310,000 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full SO45 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO45 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SO45 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO45 1'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 SO45 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SO45 1.
Keep digging
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See every individual SO45 1 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.
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.