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Hythe market report SO45, Southampton
The SO45 (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: 18,403 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO45 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SO45 (Southampton) is £315,000, from 186 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £333,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 18,403 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SO45 is a postcode district covering Hythe, Fawley, Blackfield in Southampton. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SO45 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 sells for
186 sales were registered in SO45 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £315,000. The mean works out at £333,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SO45 prices by floor area
A square metre of SO45 home has cost about £3,980 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SO45 11% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SO45 home, 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 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 186 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 478 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 407 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 365 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 483 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 719 |
| 2020 | £287,500 | £373,037 | 434 |
| 2019 | £288,000 | £377,499 | 515 |
| 2018 | £271,000 | £361,248 | 473 |
| 2017 | £267,800 | £365,252 | 532 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 582 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 561 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 636 |
| 2013 | £205,500 | £295,694 | 496 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 428 |
| 2011 | £199,000 | £300,413 | 447 |
| 2010 | £198,500 | £311,299 | 430 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 466 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 382 |
| 2007 | £202,800 | £344,005 | 756 |
| 2006 | £192,500 | £334,155 | 785 |
| 2005 | £172,500 | £306,980 | 512 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 740 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 695 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 876 |
| 2001 | £118,400 | £227,618 | 812 |
| 2000 | £97,000 | £190,363 | 644 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 865 |
| 1998 | £79,700 | £160,880 | 830 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 723 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 642 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 503 |
In cash terms the typical SO45 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SO45 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 (+22.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.3%). 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) | −4.5% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £393,500 against £197,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SO45
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £393,500 | 66 | 7,093 |
| Semi-detached | £317,500 | 54 | 4,692 |
| Terraced | £275,000 | 44 | 4,192 |
| Flats | £197,000 | 22 | 2,426 |
How many homes change hands in SO45
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 379 SO45 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 728 sales a year before the financial crisis and 384 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around SO45
For renting purposes SO45 sits in New Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £1,240 a month (May 2026). 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 £315,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,240 a month (£14,880 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
Asked and answered: SO45 (Hythe)
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SO45's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SO45 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 59 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the SO45 median sold price.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SO area, 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
SO45 ranks 13 of 23 in the SO area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SO45, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| SO45 6 | £310,000 | 21 |
How SO45 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SO area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SO42 | £790,000 | +11% |
| SO20 | £575,000 | -10% |
| SO22 | £551,200 | -2% |
| SO24 | £525,000 | +7% |
| SO21 | £520,000 | -1% |
| SO41 | £500,000 | +5% |
| SO43 | £475,000 | +2% |
| SO23 | £450,000 | -8% |
| SO32 | £447,500 | -3% |
| SO51 | £405,000 | -1% |
| SO53 | £380,000 | -1% |
| SO52 | £357,500 | +11% |
| SO31 | £355,000 | -1% |
| SO30 | £347,500 | +9% |
| SO40 | £335,500 | +8% |
| SO50 | £321,000 | +5% |
| SO45 (this report) | £315,000 | +2% |
| SO18 | £284,000 | +14% |
| SO16 | £273,000 | +9% |
| SO19 | £265,000 | +10% |
| SO15 | £255,000 | +11% |
| SO17 | £225,000 | -1% |
| SO14 | £200,000 | -2% |
Before you sell in SO45: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO45, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO45 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO45 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual SO45 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.