What is the median house price in SO40?

Homes in SO40 sold for a median £362,666 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 460 sales. Per square metre that is £4,163/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in SO40?

Homes to let in SO40 asked a median £1,211 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 181 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in SO40?

4.0% 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, 247 lets. -1.4% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in SO40?

2.9% of the homes in SO40 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 530 sales.

Postcode district

SO40 property market

Sold £4,163/m² · Median sold £362,666 (460 sales) · Index +3.7% y/y · Turnover 2.9% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is SO40?

Buildings: 15,296
Mixed-use buildings: 68%
HMO-shaped units: 15%

What does SO40 cost?

SO40: sold price per m² £4,163/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 460 sales). +3.7% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£4,163/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

460 sales

+3.7% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£362,666 12 months to Apr 2026

460 sales

+3.7% 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

£367,858 12 months to Aug 2026

1,069 listings

+0.9% 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: £3,343/m² in Jul 2016 to £4,472/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £287,472 in Jul 2016 to £380,515 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £354,975 in Jan 2022 to £350,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £4,369/m² in Aug 2025 to £4,351/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 99% in Jan 2022 to 106% in Nov 2024.

Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 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: 96.9 in Jan 2022 to 101.3 in Aug 2026.

What does SO40 earn?

SO40: asking rent £1,211 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 181 lets).

Asking rent

£1,211 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

181 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

4.0% 12 months to Aug 2026

247 lets

-1.4% on the previous 12 months.

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

Asking rent: £1,142 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,468 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 3.1% in Jan 2022 to 4.4% in Aug 2026.

How does SO40 vary by home size?

Asking price in SO40 runs from £177,495 for 1 bedroom to £779,481 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in SO40, 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	£177,495	12 months to Aug 2026	-10.9% on the previous 12 months	102
2 bedrooms	£269,734	12 months to Aug 2026	-2.9% on the previous 12 months	267
3 bedrooms	£382,332	12 months to Aug 2026	+2.9% on the previous 12 months	475
4 bedrooms	£544,746	12 months to Aug 2026	+1.6% on the previous 12 months	197
5+ bedrooms	£779,481	12 months to Aug 2026	—	81

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 SO40?

SO40: turnover 2.9% (12 months to Jan 2026, 530 sales). -3.8% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.9% 12 months to Jan 2026

530 sales

-3.8% 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

625 12 months to Jan 2026

625 sales

-3.7% 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

626 12 months to Jul 2026

626 listings

Who is active in SO40?

20 agents listed homes for sale in SO40; the three largest took 49% of the listings.

Agents active: 20
Top three agents’ share: 49%
New homes among listings: 4.2%

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

Who owns SO40?

Corporate landlords hold 66% of the 584 units in SO40 whose freeholder is classified; 97% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords66% of classified · 385 units
Housing associations17% of classified · 100 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)16% of classified · 96 units
RMC0.5% of classified · 3 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 SO40 rank?

SO40 ranks 7th of 8 postcode districts in New Forest for sold price per m², at £4,163/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in New Forest