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Hythe market report SO45 6, Southampton
The standing SO45 6 (Hythe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,562 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO45 6 (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: 21 registered 2026 sales put the SO45 6 (Southampton) median at £310,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £307,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,160 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,562 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SO45 6 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 6 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 a home in SO45 6 sells for
Across 21 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO45 6 home went for £310,000. The mean is £307,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SO45 6 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SO45 6 sales average about £4,160 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SO45 6 9% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SO45 6 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 50 |
| 2024 | £288,000 | £306,203 | 46 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 47 |
| 2022 | £328,200 | £384,852 | 77 |
| 2021 | £307,000 | £388,702 | 136 |
| 2020 | £288,000 | £373,686 | 54 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 67 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 67 |
| 2017 | £242,500 | £330,746 | 66 |
| 2016 | £261,800 | £366,261 | 76 |
| 2015 | £241,500 | £341,240 | 70 |
| 2014 | £238,800 | £338,780 | 84 |
| 2013 | £193,200 | £277,996 | 58 |
| 2012 | £210,500 | £309,830 | 58 |
| 2011 | £207,500 | £313,245 | 72 |
| 2010 | £222,500 | £348,937 | 56 |
| 2009 | £191,000 | £307,034 | 60 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 55 |
| 2007 | £193,000 | £327,382 | 125 |
| 2006 | £223,100 | £387,273 | 130 |
| 2005 | £203,200 | £361,614 | 66 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 89 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 109 |
| 2002 | £162,500 | £305,742 | 174 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 132 |
| 2000 | £127,500 | £250,219 | 67 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 133 |
| 1998 | £112,000 | £226,080 | 120 |
| 1997 | £77,500 | £158,937 | 82 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 65 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 50 |
In cash terms the typical SO45 6 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 152%, 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 6 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 1998 (+44.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−14.0%). 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) | +1.6% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 6 recorded 21 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 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 6 trades
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO45 6 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 6
For renting purposes SO45 6 sits in New Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £1,240 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,240 a month is £14,880 a year, which against the £310,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Asked and answered: SO45 6 (Hythe)
Is SO45 6 (Hythe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO45 6 (Hythe)?
Are property prices falling in SO45 6 (Hythe)?
Will SO45 6 prices rise from here?
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.
What you could buy in SO45 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 59 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO45 district, not just SO45 6: 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.
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- 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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
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
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 5 | £277,500 | 40 |
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 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO45 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO45 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO45 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SO45 6.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SO45 6. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO45 6 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.
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.