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Alderholt market report SP6, Fordingbridge
The standing SP6 (Alderholt) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,890 HM Land Registry entries for SP6 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SP6 (Fordingbridge) home changed hands for £382,500 in 2026 (median of 63 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £429,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,280 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,890 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SP6 is the postcode district covering Fordingbridge, Alderholt, Rockbourne in Fordingbridge. 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 SP6 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SP6 is £382,500, taken from 63 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £429,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SP6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SP6 costs about £4,280 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SP6 34% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SP6 home, 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 | £382,500 | £382,500 | 63 |
| 2025 | £392,800 | £402,193 | 238 |
| 2024 | £390,000 | £414,650 | 217 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 157 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 242 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 335 |
| 2020 | £336,200 | £436,226 | 232 |
| 2019 | £316,200 | £414,463 | 224 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 217 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 201 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 249 |
| 2015 | £299,000 | £422,487 | 246 |
| 2014 | £273,800 | £388,433 | 230 |
| 2013 | £255,500 | £367,639 | 228 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 207 |
| 2011 | £288,000 | £434,769 | 163 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 193 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 203 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 172 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 294 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 355 |
| 2005 | £227,200 | £404,324 | 222 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 267 |
| 2003 | £197,200 | £363,290 | 328 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 299 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 311 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 294 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 385 |
| 1998 | £104,500 | £210,941 | 255 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 312 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 296 |
| 1995 | £77,000 | £167,386 | 255 |
In cash terms the typical SP6 home went from £77,000 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 129%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SP6 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 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−13.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £525,000 against £162,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SP6
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 | £515,000 | 31 | 4,266 |
| Semi-detached | £332,500 | 17 | 1,792 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 11 | 1,017 |
| Flats | £162,000 (2025) | – | 811 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 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.
Sales activity in SP6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 166 sales completed in SP6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 296 sales a year before the financial crisis and 183 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.
Reading the SP6 market
Among the 11 measurable districts of its area, SP6 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around SP6
The local authority for SP6 is New Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,240 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £861 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,984, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, New Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £382,500 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.
Common questions on SP6 (Alderholt)
How much did a house sell for in SP6 (Alderholt)?
Are property prices falling in SP6 (Alderholt)?
Is SP6 (Alderholt) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SP6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in SP6 right now
Everything above is what homes in SP6 sold for. The live side of the market holds 45 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% below the SP6 median sold price.
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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
What another bedroom costs in SP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SP area, 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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
SP6 ranks 11 of 11 in the SP 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.
Five-year change in the median, SP area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SP6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SP6 1 | £375,000 | 41 |
| SP6 2 | £602,500 | 6 |
| SP6 3 | £385,000 | 16 |
How SP6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SP5 | £473,500 | +5% |
| SP3 | £467,500 | +10% |
| SP6 (this report) | £382,500 | -2% |
| SP11 | £360,000 | +20% |
| SP4 | £332,500 | +11% |
| SP7 | £320,000 | +2% |
| SP1 | £312,500 | +1% |
| SP2 | £310,000 | +16% |
| SP9 | £310,000 | +42% |
| SP10 | £286,000 | +6% |
| SP8 | £278,000 | +4% |
Before you sell in SP6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SP6, open the average prices map and zoom from the SP6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SP6 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 SP6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SP6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SP6 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.
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.