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Ampfield market report SO51, Romsey
The SO51 (Ampfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 16,178 registered sales in SO51 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SO51 (Romsey) home changed hands for £405,000 in 2026 (median of 183 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £496,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,600 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 16,178 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SO51 is the postcode district covering Romsey, Ampfield, Lockerley in Romsey. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SO51 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 SO51 homes really sell for
The SO51 median stands at £405,000 for 2026, built from 183 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £496,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in SO51
A square metre of SO51 home has cost about £4,600 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SO51 sits 42% above the national market.
The price of a typical SO51 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 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 183 |
| 2025 | £407,500 | £417,245 | 492 |
| 2024 | £413,500 | £439,635 | 444 |
| 2023 | £411,000 | £451,589 | 444 |
| 2022 | £443,500 | £520,054 | 500 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 718 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 495 |
| 2019 | £367,800 | £482,098 | 626 |
| 2018 | £348,500 | £464,557 | 562 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 536 |
| 2016 | £316,500 | £442,787 | 624 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 606 |
| 2014 | £271,800 | £385,596 | 606 |
| 2013 | £265,000 | £381,309 | 493 |
| 2012 | £263,000 | £387,103 | 411 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 344 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 391 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 347 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 235 |
| 2007 | £247,000 | £418,981 | 571 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 643 |
| 2005 | £227,800 | £405,392 | 456 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 492 |
| 2003 | £210,000 | £386,871 | 481 |
| 2002 | £183,500 | £345,254 | 641 |
| 2001 | £142,500 | £273,949 | 514 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 507 |
| 1999 | £103,000 | £205,274 | 541 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 573 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 613 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 641 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 448 |
In cash terms the typical SO51 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SO51 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 (+28.8% 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.
What SO51 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.6% | −2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £625,000 against £215,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SO51
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 | £625,000 | 65 | 5,784 |
| Semi-detached | £400,000 | 35 | 3,386 |
| Terraced | £317,500 | 56 | 4,422 |
| Flats | £215,000 | 27 | 2,586 |
Sales activity in SO51
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SO51 recorded 391 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 538 sales a year before the financial crisis and 413 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around SO51
The local authority for SO51 is Test Valley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,215 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £872 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,971 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Test Valley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £405,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,215 a month (£14,580 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
What people ask about SO51 (Ampfield)
How much did a house sell for in SO51 (Ampfield)?
Are property prices falling in SO51 (Ampfield)?
Is SO51 (Ampfield) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SO51 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SO51 now
Everything above is what homes in SO51 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 14 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% below the SO51 median sold price.
10% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every SO51 home for sale on the map →
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.
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%) | — |
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
SO51 ranks 18 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.
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.
Inside SO51, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SO51 0 | £475,000 | 51 |
| 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 |
How SO51 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in SO51? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SO51'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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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.