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Hythe market report SO45 5, Southampton
The SO45 5 (Hythe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,803 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO45 5 (Southampton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SO45 5 (Southampton) home changed hands for £277,500 in 2026 (median of 40 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £314,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,220 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,803 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SO45 5 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 5 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 SO45 5 homes really sell for
40 sales were registered in SO45 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £277,500. The mean works out at £314,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SO45 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of SO45 5 home has cost about £4,220 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO45 5 sits 3% below the national market.
A typical SO45 5 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 | £277,500 | £277,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £326,500 | £334,308 | 122 |
| 2024 | £303,800 | £323,002 | 100 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 104 |
| 2022 | £324,500 | £380,513 | 112 |
| 2021 | £299,200 | £378,826 | 180 |
| 2020 | £279,700 | £362,917 | 101 |
| 2019 | £277,500 | £363,736 | 126 |
| 2018 | £250,200 | £333,521 | 102 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 135 |
| 2016 | £236,500 | £330,866 | 141 |
| 2015 | £224,000 | £316,512 | 132 |
| 2014 | £219,000 | £310,690 | 165 |
| 2013 | £215,500 | £310,083 | 116 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 108 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 109 |
| 2010 | £204,000 | £319,925 | 103 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 112 |
| 2008 | £172,000 | £281,944 | 89 |
| 2007 | £212,000 | £359,611 | 193 |
| 2006 | £178,200 | £309,332 | 190 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 138 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 173 |
| 2003 | £137,700 | £253,677 | 192 |
| 2002 | £133,200 | £250,615 | 214 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 221 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 188 |
| 1999 | £76,000 | £151,464 | 239 |
| 1998 | £71,800 | £144,933 | 270 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 231 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 211 |
| 1995 | £51,800 | £112,605 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical SO45 5 home went from £51,800 in 1995 to £277,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 146%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 27% 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 5 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 2002 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−18.9%). 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) | −15.0% | −17.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −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
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SO45 5 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 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.
Reading the SO45 5 market
This is a thin market: 40 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. Within SO45, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of SO45 5
SO45 5 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.
Against the £277,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,240 a month (£14,880 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
What people ask about SO45 5 (Hythe)
Is SO45 5 (Hythe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO45 5 (Hythe)?
Are property prices falling in SO45 5 (Hythe)?
Are SO45 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
SO45's current homes for sale
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Foxtail Drive, Dibden Purlieu, Southa...
- Hillview Road, Hythe, Southampton
- Hillview Road, Hythe, Southampton
"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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SO area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £295,000 | 47 |
| SO45 3 | £307,500 | 20 |
| SO45 4 | £375,000 | 29 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SO45 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO45 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO45 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO45 5 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 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO45 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SO45 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.