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Hythe market report SO45 4, Southampton
The standing SO45 4 (Hythe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,542 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SO45 4 (Southampton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for SO45 4 (Southampton) is £375,000, from 29 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £391,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,040 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,542 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SO45 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO45 (Southampton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SO45 4 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 4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SO45 4 is £375,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £391,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
SO45 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SO45 4 sales average about £4,040 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO45 4 32% above the country at large.
SO45 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 73 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 63 |
| 2023 | £396,800 | £435,986 | 52 |
| 2022 | £373,800 | £438,323 | 74 |
| 2021 | £330,000 | £417,823 | 98 |
| 2020 | £371,200 | £481,640 | 62 |
| 2019 | £326,500 | £427,963 | 72 |
| 2018 | £307,500 | £409,903 | 78 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 91 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 92 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 86 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 93 |
| 2013 | £234,300 | £337,134 | 72 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 71 |
| 2011 | £236,500 | £357,024 | 70 |
| 2010 | £208,200 | £326,511 | 70 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 63 |
| 2008 | £236,500 | £387,673 | 38 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 98 |
| 2006 | £241,500 | £419,213 | 104 |
| 2005 | £189,500 | £337,234 | 66 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 122 |
| 2003 | £179,000 | £329,761 | 105 |
| 2002 | £168,000 | £316,091 | 109 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 89 |
| 2000 | £119,500 | £234,519 | 86 |
| 1999 | £96,200 | £191,722 | 90 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 98 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 86 |
| 1996 | £72,800 | £153,532 | 74 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical SO45 4 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO45 4 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 2006 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−11.1%). 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) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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 SO45 4
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 4 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 97 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
What tenants pay around SO45 4
SO45 4 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.
Against the £375,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,240 a month (£14,880 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
The shape of the SO45 4 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO45 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within SO45, this sector trades 19% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
SO45 4 (Hythe): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SO45 4 (Hythe)?
Are property prices falling in SO45 4 (Hythe)?
Is SO45 4 (Hythe) a good place to buy a house?
Will SO45 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Foxtail Drive, Dibden Purlieu, Southa...
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- Hillview Road, Hythe, Southampton
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 →
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%) | — |
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. 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.
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.
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 1 | £335,000 | 29 |
| SO45 2 | £295,000 | 47 |
| SO45 3 | £307,500 | 20 |
| 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 a home in SO45 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO45 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO45 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO45 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SO45 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO45 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO45 4 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.
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.