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Ampfield market report SO51 8, Romsey
The SO51 8 (Ampfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,724 registered sales in SO51 8 (Romsey) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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 middle 2026 sale in SO51 8 (Romsey) came in at £357,000, out of 39 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £401,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,540 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,724 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SO51 8 is one sector of SO51 (Romsey): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SO51 8 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 buyers actually paid in SO51 8
Across 39 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SO51 8 home went for £357,000. The mean is £401,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
SO51 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of SO51 8 home has cost about £4,540 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SO51 8 trades 25% above the country as a whole.
A typical SO51 8 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 | £357,000 | £357,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £364,400 | £373,114 | 118 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 91 |
| 2023 | £349,000 | £383,466 | 93 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 103 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 127 |
| 2020 | £303,800 | £394,187 | 88 |
| 2019 | £306,200 | £401,355 | 110 |
| 2018 | £294,000 | £391,908 | 121 |
| 2017 | £307,500 | £419,399 | 120 |
| 2016 | £283,500 | £396,619 | 152 |
| 2015 | £255,000 | £360,315 | 167 |
| 2014 | £247,500 | £351,122 | 131 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 99 |
| 2012 | £231,000 | £340,003 | 95 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 97 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 93 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 81 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 63 |
| 2007 | £243,000 | £412,196 | 149 |
| 2006 | £221,500 | £384,496 | 160 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 127 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 125 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 171 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 173 |
| 2001 | £128,000 | £246,073 | 117 |
| 2000 | £122,000 | £239,425 | 116 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 112 |
| 1998 | £88,000 | £177,634 | 147 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 123 |
| 1996 | £69,500 | £146,572 | 109 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical SO51 8 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £357,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 153%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO51 8 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 (+32.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−10.6%). 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) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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
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.
SO51 8 recorded 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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 SO51 8
SO51 8 falls under Test Valley, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £357,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,215 a month (£14,580 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
How SO51 8 trades
This is a thin market: 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within SO51, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on SO51 8 (Ampfield)
How much did a house sell for in SO51 8 (Ampfield)?
Are property prices falling in SO51 8 (Ampfield)?
Is SO51 8 (Ampfield) a good place to buy a house?
Will SO51 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
On the market in SO51 today
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 8: 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
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 0 | £475,000 | 51 |
| SO51 5 | £375,000 | 25 |
| SO51 6 | £562,000 | 17 |
| SO51 7 | £342,000 | 48 |
| 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.
Before you sell in SO51 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO51 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Take it further
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See every individual SO51 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.