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Hythe market report SO45 2, Southampton
The SO45 2 (Hythe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,403 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO45 2 (Southampton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SO45 2 (Southampton) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £307,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,403 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SO45 2 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 2 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 SO45 2 prices, from the sold record
The SO45 2 median stands at £295,000 for 2026, built from 47 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £307,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SO45 2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SO45 2 homes have averaged around £3,740 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO45 2 4% above the country at large.
A typical SO45 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £296,000 | £303,078 | 85 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 83 |
| 2023 | £311,000 | £341,713 | 66 |
| 2022 | £322,000 | £377,582 | 79 |
| 2021 | £286,200 | £362,366 | 118 |
| 2020 | £277,000 | £359,413 | 93 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 85 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 96 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 77 |
| 2016 | £250,400 | £350,312 | 122 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 110 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 117 |
| 2013 | £190,500 | £274,110 | 102 |
| 2012 | £178,000 | £261,994 | 80 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 75 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 80 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 115 |
| 2008 | £176,000 | £288,501 | 63 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 151 |
| 2006 | £173,500 | £301,174 | 150 |
| 2005 | £166,000 | £295,413 | 88 |
| 2004 | £169,200 | £307,300 | 128 |
| 2003 | £143,800 | £264,914 | 104 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 163 |
| 2001 | £109,000 | £209,547 | 179 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 123 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 167 |
| 1998 | £69,500 | £140,291 | 136 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 132 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 106 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 83 |
In cash terms the typical SO45 2 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, 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 22% 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 SO45 2 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 2001 (+21.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−6.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.3% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SO45 2 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How SO45 2 trades
This is a thin market: 47 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.
The rental side of SO45 2
SO45 2 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 £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Common questions on SO45 2 (Hythe)
Are property prices falling in SO45 2 (Hythe)?
Is SO45 2 (Hythe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO45 2 (Hythe)?
Where do SO45 2 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% 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.
What you could buy in SO45 now
Turning to what is actually available: 59 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO45 district, not just SO45 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Foxtail Drive, Dibden Purlieu, Southa...
- Hillview Road, Hythe, Southampton
- Hillview Road, Hythe, Southampton
"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 SO45 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.
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%) | — |
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
The spread across the SO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SO45
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO45, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO45 1 | £335,000 | 29 |
| 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.
Before you sell in SO45 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO45 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO45 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO45 2 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 SO45 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO45 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SO45 2 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.
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.