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Ampfield market report SO51 0, Romsey
The SO51 0 (Ampfield) 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: 3,132 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO51 0 (Romsey) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SO51 0 (Romsey) is £475,000, from 51 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £570,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,730 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,132 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SO51 0 is a single group of streets within SO51 (Romsey), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SO51 0 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.
SO51 0 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for SO51 0 is £475,000, taken from 51 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £570,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
SO51 0 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SO51 0 homes have averaged around £4,730 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SO51 0 runs 67% above it.
A typical SO51 0 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £503,000 | £515,028 | 120 |
| 2024 | £467,500 | £497,049 | 117 |
| 2023 | £495,000 | £543,884 | 123 |
| 2022 | £521,500 | £611,518 | 144 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 239 |
| 2020 | £414,100 | £537,303 | 186 |
| 2019 | £415,000 | £543,966 | 213 |
| 2018 | £392,500 | £523,210 | 140 |
| 2017 | £430,000 | £586,477 | 123 |
| 2016 | £348,000 | £486,855 | 162 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 177 |
| 2014 | £395,000 | £560,377 | 167 |
| 2013 | £350,000 | £503,615 | 129 |
| 2012 | £350,000 | £515,156 | 90 |
| 2011 | £429,000 | £647,625 | 44 |
| 2010 | £425,000 | £666,509 | 71 |
| 2009 | £372,500 | £598,797 | 44 |
| 2008 | £495,000 | £811,410 | 34 |
| 2007 | £530,000 | £899,028 | 48 |
| 2006 | £405,000 | £703,028 | 72 |
| 2005 | £405,000 | £720,737 | 61 |
| 2004 | £325,000 | £590,263 | 43 |
| 2003 | £355,000 | £653,996 | 57 |
| 2002 | £308,000 | £579,499 | 71 |
| 2001 | £281,200 | £540,593 | 68 |
| 2000 | £236,000 | £463,150 | 59 |
| 1999 | £180,000 | £358,731 | 61 |
| 1998 | £162,000 | £327,009 | 61 |
| 1997 | £148,500 | £304,544 | 63 |
| 1996 | £128,200 | £270,368 | 54 |
| 1995 | £142,500 | £309,773 | 40 |
In cash terms the typical SO51 0 home went from £142,500 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 53%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 47% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO51 0 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 2000 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−24.7%). 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) | −5.6% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −1.9% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in SO51 0. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 111 sales a year over the last five years against 60 before the financial crisis. 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.
The shape of the SO51 0 market
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO51 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SO51, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around SO51 0
The local authority for SO51 0 is Test Valley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,215 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £872 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,971, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Test Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £475,000 median sold price, £1,215 a month is £14,580 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
SO51 0 (Ampfield): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SO51 0 (Ampfield)?
Are property prices falling in SO51 0 (Ampfield)?
Is SO51 0 (Ampfield) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SO51 0 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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 is for sale in SO51 right now
The live side of the market holds 14 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO51 district, not just SO51 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every SO51 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SO: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SO area, straight 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%) | — |
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SO51
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SO51, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO51 5 | £375,000 | 25 |
| SO51 6 | £562,000 | 17 |
| SO51 7 | £342,000 | 48 |
| SO51 8 | £357,000 | 39 |
| SO51 9 | £1,385,000 | 3 |
Zoom out to the full SO51 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SO51 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SO51 0? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SO51 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SO51 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SO51 0 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 SO51 0.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SO51 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SO51 0 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.