What is the median house price in SO18?

Homes in SO18 sold for a median £278,319 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 400 sales. Per square metre that is £3,486/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in SO18?

Homes to let in SO18 asked a median £1,180 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 303 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in SO18?

5.0% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 580 lets. +6.4% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in SO18?

2.5% of the homes in SO18 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 418 sales.

Postcode district

SO18 property market

Sold £3,486/m² · Median sold £278,319 (400 sales) · Index -0.2% y/y · Turnover 2.5% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is SO18?

Buildings: 11,972
Mixed-use buildings: 1.0%
HMO-shaped units: 27%

What does SO18 cost?

SO18: sold price per m² £3,486/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 400 sales). -0.2% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£3,486/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

400 sales

-0.2% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£278,319 12 months to Apr 2026

400 sales

-0.2% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.

Asking price

£270,567 12 months to Aug 2026

1,018 listings

-2.9% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £2,911/m² in Jul 2016 to £4,231/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £248,681 in Jul 2016 to £290,850 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £250,000 in Jan 2022 to £249,975 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £3,519/m² in Aug 2025 to £4,004/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 96% in Jan 2022 to 95% in Aug 2024.

Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 10 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.

ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices

Asking price index: 98.6 in Jan 2022 to 96.7 in Aug 2026.

What does SO18 earn?

SO18: asking rent £1,180 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 303 lets).

Asking rent

£1,180 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

303 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

5.0% 12 months to Aug 2026

580 lets

+6.4% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £1,215 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,069 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 4.2% in Jan 2022 to 5.8% in Aug 2026.

How does SO18 vary by home size?

Asking price in SO18 runs from £131,326 for 1 bedroom to £448,263 for 4 bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in SO18, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	£131,326	12 months to Aug 2026	+0.1% on the previous 12 months	147
2 bedrooms	£213,672	12 months to Aug 2026	+3.1% on the previous 12 months	345
3 bedrooms	£319,378	12 months to Aug 2026	+0.7% on the previous 12 months	363
4 bedrooms	£448,263	12 months to Aug 2026	-1.2% on the previous 12 months	130
5+ bedrooms	Not published	—	—	—

Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.

How liquid is SO18?

SO18: turnover 2.5% (12 months to Jan 2026, 418 sales). -7.3% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.5% 12 months to Jan 2026

418 sales

-7.3% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.

Completed sales

511 12 months to Jan 2026

511 sales

-9.4% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.

Listings for sale

424 12 months to Jul 2026

424 listings

Who is active in SO18?

33 agents listed homes for sale in SO18; the three largest took 40% of the listings.

Agents active: 33
Top three agents’ share: 40%
New homes among listings: 0.0%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns SO18?

Corporate landlords hold 78% of the 607 units in SO18 whose freeholder is classified; 97% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords78% of classified · 472 units
Housing associations12% of classified · 73 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)8.9% of classified · 54 units
RMC1.3% of classified · 8 units

Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.

Where does SO18 rank?

SO18 ranks 4th of 6 postcode districts in City of Southampton for sold price per m², at £3,486/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in City of Southampton