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Ampfield market report SO51 7, Romsey
The SO51 7 (Ampfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,761 HM Land Registry entries for SO51 7 (Romsey), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SO51 7 (Romsey) sold for £342,000 in 2026, the median of 48 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £422,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,420 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,761 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SO51 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SO51 (Romsey). 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 SO51 7 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.
The going rate for a home in SO51 7
Across 48 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO51 7 home went for £342,000. The mean is £422,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
SO51 7 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in SO51 7 have sold for about £4,420 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SO51 7 20% above the country at large.
A typical SO51 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £342,000 | £342,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 135 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 117 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 111 |
| 2022 | £348,800 | £409,008 | 126 |
| 2021 | £333,000 | £421,621 | 167 |
| 2020 | £322,500 | £418,450 | 90 |
| 2019 | £292,500 | £383,397 | 145 |
| 2018 | £297,400 | £396,440 | 166 |
| 2017 | £275,000 | £375,072 | 143 |
| 2016 | £252,000 | £352,550 | 120 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 122 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 164 |
| 2013 | £198,200 | £285,190 | 132 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 113 |
| 2011 | £192,500 | £290,601 | 106 |
| 2010 | £191,000 | £299,537 | 106 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 107 |
| 2008 | £192,500 | £315,548 | 61 |
| 2007 | £197,000 | £334,167 | 194 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 196 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 132 |
| 2004 | £170,500 | £309,661 | 166 |
| 2003 | £153,200 | £282,232 | 136 |
| 2002 | £153,000 | £287,868 | 199 |
| 2001 | £109,700 | £210,893 | 170 |
| 2000 | £96,500 | £189,381 | 189 |
| 1999 | £76,500 | £152,461 | 189 |
| 1998 | £71,800 | £144,933 | 192 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 246 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 311 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 162 |
In cash terms the typical SO51 7 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £342,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SO51 7 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 (+39.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−9.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SO51 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SO51 7 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the SO51 7 market
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SO51 7 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 16% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around SO51 7
For renting purposes SO51 7 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.
Set against the £342,000 median sold price, £1,215 a month is £14,580 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 7 (Ampfield): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SO51 7 (Ampfield)?
Is SO51 7 (Ampfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SO51 7 (Ampfield)?
What happens to SO51 7 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 10% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SO prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SO area. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SO area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 5 | £375,000 | 25 |
| SO51 6 | £562,000 | 17 |
| 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 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SO51 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SO51 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SO51 7 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 SO51 7.
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The live map plots every individual SO51 7 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.
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.