Lee-on-the-solent house prices

Lee-on-the-solent house prices are built from 8,142 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £210,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +41.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.4%.

HM Land Registry8,142 sales1,854 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Lee-on-the-solent house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Lee-on-the-solent is £375,000 in 2026; the lowest is £58,375 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £58,375 to £375,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £129,620, so the real change over the whole record is +189.3% — about +3.49% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +41.5% in cash against +1.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Lee-on-the-solent values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lee-on-the-solent is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

2,166 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5,976 freehold — 26.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £147,500 and the median freehold sale £230,000 — a gap of +55.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +4.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 262 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Fareham, 47.8% of 47,934 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Fareham at £1,201 a month as of Jun 2026 — £849 for a one-bedroom home and £1,358 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £210,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.86% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of PO13, 127 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 66 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 18 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.

Against the 114,511 residents the 2021 census counted in Fareham, that is 1.11 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 114,511 residents in Fareham across 48,639 households. 79.2% of those households own their home and 20.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a PO13 postcode: 12 primary, 1 nursery, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lee-on-the-solent sits above that national figure — +33.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,437 per square metre, across 1,854 of the 8,142 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £19,000 to £1,955,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Lee-on-the-solent sits in Fareham, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Fareham at 8.6 times median local earnings of £40,287 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Lee-on-the-solent

• Marine Parade West546 sales
• Marine Parade East465 sales
• High Street377 sales
• Beach Road287 sales
• David Newberry Drive234 sales
• Skipper Way213 sales
• Fitzroy Drive205 sales
• Gosport Road177 sales
• Elmore Road170 sales
• Magister Drive150 sales
• Megson Drive149 sales
• Seymour Road148 sales
• Portsmouth Road141 sales
• Wootton Road119 sales
• Osprey Gardens110 sales
• Westland Drive107 sales
• Milvil Road99 sales
• Proctor Drive99 sales
• Elmore Avenue95 sales
• Harrier Close93 sales
• Martinet Drive89 sales
• Lancaster Close86 sales
• Grayson Close83 sales
• Cambridge Road82 sales
• Kings Road81 sales
• Fell Drive76 sales
• Manor Way76 sales
• Beaufort Close75 sales
• Martlet Close73 sales
• Russell Road71 sales
• Montserrat Road69 sales
• Raynes Road69 sales
• Fieldhouse Drive67 sales
• Sea Crest Road67 sales
• Spencer Drive65 sales
• Glenney Close63 sales
• Leamington Crescent63 sales
• Goldfinch Lane62 sales
• Tiger Moth Close62 sales
• Gibson Close61 sales
• Albacore Close57 sales
• Saunders Close57 sales
• Richmond Road55 sales
• Hoverfly Close53 sales
• Howard Close52 sales
• Harvard Close51 sales
• Holt Close50 sales
• Cockerell Close48 sales
• Grove Road48 sales
• Corsair Close47 sales
• Studland Road45 sales
• Warwick Close45 sales
• Avon Close44 sales
• Chester Crescent43 sales
• Percival Close42 sales
• Kimpton Close40 sales
• Wellington Drive40 sales
• Compton Close38 sales
• Waveney Close38 sales
• Darwin Close37 sales

Postcode districts covering Lee-on-the-solent

• PO13£148,500 median

What is the average house price in Lee-on-the-solent?

The median price paid in Lee-on-the-solent across every sale on the register is £210,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Lee-on-the-solent?

8,142 sales are on record for Lee-on-the-solent, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lee-on-the-solent house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +41.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lee-on-the-solent house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2026. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Lee-on-the-solent?

£2,437 per square metre, from the 1,854 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 29 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Lee-on-the-solent house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.