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Alderholt market report SP6 3, Fordingbridge
The SP6 3 (Alderholt) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,466 HM Land Registry entries for SP6 3 (Fordingbridge), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 16 registered 2026 sales put the SP6 3 (Fordingbridge) median at £385,000, down 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £428,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,230 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,466 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SP6 3 is a single group of streets within SP6 (Fordingbridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SP6 3 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.
Today's SP6 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SP6 3 is £385,000, taken from 16 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £428,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SP6 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SP6 3 sales average about £4,230 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SP6 3 sits 35% above the national market.
SP6 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £457,500 | £468,440 | 64 |
| 2024 | £398,500 | £423,687 | 58 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 50 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 79 |
| 2021 | £405,000 | £512,782 | 111 |
| 2020 | £372,500 | £483,326 | 61 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 57 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 71 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 69 |
| 2016 | £349,000 | £488,254 | 89 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 77 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 67 |
| 2013 | £255,000 | £366,920 | 75 |
| 2012 | £263,500 | £387,839 | 66 |
| 2011 | £278,000 | £419,673 | 53 |
| 2010 | £276,200 | £433,153 | 56 |
| 2009 | £238,800 | £383,873 | 64 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 47 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 89 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 99 |
| 2005 | £238,000 | £423,544 | 65 |
| 2004 | £227,500 | £413,184 | 87 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 120 |
| 2002 | £174,000 | £327,379 | 88 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 97 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 83 |
| 1999 | £119,200 | £237,559 | 120 |
| 1998 | £114,500 | £231,126 | 74 |
| 1997 | £89,600 | £183,752 | 88 |
| 1996 | £84,500 | £178,207 | 137 |
| 1995 | £82,000 | £178,255 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical SP6 3 home went from £82,000 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 116%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SP6 3 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 1998 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.8%). 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) | −15.8% | −17.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −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.
Transaction volumes
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.
SP6 3 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 91 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 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.
What kind of market SP6 3 is
This is a thin market: 16 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of SP6 3
For renting purposes SP6 3 sits in New Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £1,240 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £861 a month here against £1,984 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, New Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £385,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,240 a month (£14,880 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.
What people ask about SP6 3 (Alderholt)
Is SP6 3 (Alderholt) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SP6 3 (Alderholt)?
Are property prices falling in SP6 3 (Alderholt)?
Are SP6 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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.
On the market in SP6 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 45 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SP6 district, not just SP6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SP6 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in SP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SP area, 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 | — | £345,000 | £450,000 (+30%) | £668,750 (+49%) | £982,500 (+47%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £295,000 (+20%) | £344,997 (+17%) | £450,500 (+31%) | £625,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £226,000 | £260,000 (+15%) | £300,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+25%) | — |
| Flat | £145,000 | £190,000 (+31%) | £330,000 (+74%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SP area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SP6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SP6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SP6 1 | £375,000 | 41 |
| SP6 2 | £602,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full SP6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SP6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SP6 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SP6 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SP6 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SP6 3 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 SP6 3.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every SP6 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.