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Ampfield market report SO51 5, Romsey
The SO51 5 (Ampfield) 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: 2,339 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SO51 5 (Romsey) 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: the 2026 median for SO51 5 (Romsey) is £375,000, from 25 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £387,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,339 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 5 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 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 a home in SO51 5 sells for
The 2026 median for SO51 5 is £375,000, taken from 25 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £387,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in SO51 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SO51 5 sales average about £4,390 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO51 5 trades 32% above the country as a whole.
SO51 5's median sold price, 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £373,800 | £382,739 | 66 |
| 2024 | £394,000 | £418,903 | 70 |
| 2023 | £373,500 | £410,385 | 58 |
| 2022 | £377,000 | £442,076 | 61 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 92 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 65 |
| 2019 | £311,200 | £407,909 | 90 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 75 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 73 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 117 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 63 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 83 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 64 |
| 2012 | £239,200 | £352,073 | 61 |
| 2011 | £228,500 | £344,947 | 41 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 67 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 55 |
| 2008 | £228,000 | £373,740 | 28 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 97 |
| 2006 | £210,800 | £365,922 | 112 |
| 2005 | £208,000 | £370,156 | 63 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 84 |
| 2003 | £179,000 | £329,761 | 52 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 87 |
| 2001 | £130,500 | £250,880 | 88 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 60 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 99 |
| 1998 | £86,000 | £173,597 | 92 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 93 |
| 1996 | £71,200 | £150,158 | 82 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical SO51 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO51 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 2001 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.3%). 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) | +0.3% | −2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 register shows 25 SO51 5 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 80 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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.
How SO51 5 trades
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO51 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around SO51 5
For renting purposes SO51 5 sits in Test Valley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,215 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £872 a month here against £1,971 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Test Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £375,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,215 a month (£14,580 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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: SO51 5 (Ampfield)
Is SO51 5 (Ampfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO51 5 (Ampfield)?
Are property prices falling in SO51 5 (Ampfield)?
Where do SO51 5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SO51's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 14 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SO51 district, not just SO51 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% 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.
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Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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 SO51
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SO51, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SO51 0 | £475,000 | 51 |
| 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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO51 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO51 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO51 5 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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The live map plots every individual SO51 5 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.