St James Road, Emsworth house prices are built from 84 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 18 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £195,000. Across the 17 years from 2004 to 2021 the median moved +86.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +27.2%.
Median price paid
£195,000
Change in cash, 2004–2021
+86.8%
Change in real terms
+27.2%
Median per m²
£2,989
HM Land Registry84 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jul 2025
Section 01
How St James Road, Emsworth prices moved
The chart tracks the median St James Road, Emsworth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £85,000 | £188,740 |
| 2000s | 2 | £136,000 | £247,752 |
| 2020s | 1 | £358,750 | £366,549 |
The highest yearly median on record for St James Road, Emsworth is £358,750 in 2021; the lowest is £66,500 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £66,500 to £358,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £144,254, so the real change over the whole record is +214.2% — about +4.69% 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: +86.8% in cash against +27.2% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 18 Jul 2025 | Detached | £417,000 | £426,065 |
| 1 | 29 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 29 | 5 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £337,000 | £364,115 |
| 13 | 16 Aug 2023 | Detached | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| Blake House | 9 Sep 2022 | Detached | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| Slipper House | 9 Sep 2022 | Detached | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| 2 | 28 Feb 2022 | Detached | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| 33 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £520,000 | £656,989 |
| 3 | 1 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 1c | 23 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 8 | 4 Jun 2021 | Detached | £357,500 | £451,680 |
| 1d | 4 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £295,000 | £372,715 |
| 10 | 13 Apr 2021 | Detached | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| 6 | 6 Aug 2020 | Detached | £330,000 | £427,273 |
| 10 | 24 Feb 2020 | Detached | £355,000 | £459,642 |
| Slipper House | 21 Oct 2019 | Detached | £290,000 | £379,314 |
| 17 | 9 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £417,500 | £546,081 |
| 4 | 30 Apr 2018 | Detached | £355,000 | £473,110 |
| 1e | 27 Jan 2017 | Detached | £451,000 | £613,813 |
| 17 | 7 Oct 2016 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £453,713 |
| 1c | 18 Dec 2015 | Terraced | £220,000 | £310,200 |
| 1d | 12 Feb 2015 | Terraced | £240,000 | £338,400 |
| 32d | 17 Jul 2014 | Semi-detached | £317,500 | £455,417 |
| 1d | 6 May 2014 | Terraced | £187,000 | £268,230 |
| 1b | 20 Dec 2013 | Terraced | £185,000 | £269,752 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 St James Road, Emsworth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 St James Road | £85,000 (1997) | £475,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 13 St James Road | £86,000 (1997) | £485,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| SLIPPER HOUSE St James Road | £290,000 (2019) | £575,000 (2022) | +25.6% | +20.7% |
| 33 St James Road | £220,000 (2004) | £520,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 3 St James Road | £60,000 (1998) | £360,000 (2021) | +8.1% | +5.8% |
| 1C St James Road | £62,800 (1998) | £290,000 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 1D St James Road | £89,500 (2000) | £295,000 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.6% |
| 8 St James Road | £65,000 (1996) | £357,500 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| 10 St James Road | £92,000 (1999) | £425,000 (2021) | +7.2% | +4.9% |
| 6 St James Road | £104,000 (1998) | £330,000 (2020) | +5.4% | +3.2% |
| 17 St James Road | £325,000 (2016) | £417,500 (2019) | +8.7% | +6.4% |
| 32D St James Road | £195,000 (2003) | £317,500 (2014) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St James Road, Emsworth is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 34 | 40.5% | £195,000 | £59,995 – £520,000 |
| Detached | 34 | 40.5% | £270,000 | £52,000 – £575,000 |
| Terraced | 16 | 19.0% | £136,000 | £62,800 – £295,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St James Road, Emsworth
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 84 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 84 | 100.0% | £195,000 |
| New build | 1 | 1.2% | £195,000 |
| Existing home | 83 | 98.8% | £195,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — 0.0%. 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 4 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.
Section 07
Living in St James Road, Emsworth
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chichester, 44.4% of 65,469 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 520 | 0.8% |
| B | 9,731 | 14.9% |
| C | 18,790 | 28.7% |
| D | 20,545 | 31.4% |
| E | 10,738 | 16.4% |
| F | 3,924 | 6.0% |
| G | 1,221 | 1.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chichester at £1,326 a month as of Jun 2026 — £942 for a one-bedroom home and £1,498 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £195,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.16% 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 PO10, 78 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 29 violent, 3 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 15 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times quieter.
Against the 124,068 residents the 2021 census counted in Chichester, that is 0.63 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around St James Road, Emsworth
The 2021 census counted 124,068 residents in Chichester across 54,118 households. 66.8% of those households own their home and 33.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
7 state and independent schools have a PO10 postcode: 6 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bourne Community College | Secondary | Foundation school | 692 |
| Emsworth Primary School | Primary | Community school | 407 |
| Southbourne Junior School | Primary | Community school | 228 |
| St James Church of England Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 224 |
| Thorney Island Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 180 |
| Southbourne Infant School | Primary | Community school | 176 |
| Westbourne Primary School | Primary | Community school | 144 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Emsworth Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Southbourne Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Warblington Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Nutbourne Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
Section 09
How St James Road, Emsworth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St James Road, Emsworth sits above that national figure — +23.8%.
Within Emsworth the street ranks 226 of 281 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £247,000 (-21.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,989 per square metre, across 22 of the 84 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 £52,000 to £575,000. 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.
St James Road, Emsworth sits in Chichester, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chichester at 12.3 times median local earnings of £33,692 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- North Street£165,000 median
- Stein Road£179,375 median
- Main Road£220,000 median
- Brook Gardens£192,250 median
- Victoria Road£185,000 median
- Horndean Road£185,000 median
- Havant Road£156,000 median
- New Brighton Road£249,500 median
- Prinsted Lane£495,000 median
- Bosmere Gardens£190,000 median
- Westbourne Avenue£328,725 median
- Southleigh Road£277,250 median
- Gordon Road£205,000 median
- Kelsey Avenue£225,475 median
- Selangor Avenue£236,000 median
- Birch Tree Drive£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1C St James Road5 sales
- 1D St James Road5 sales
- 3 St James Road4 sales
- 1 St James Road3 sales
- 10 St James Road3 sales
- 32D St James Road3 sales
- 18 St James Road3 sales
- 12 St James Road3 sales
- 11 St James Road3 sales
- 7 St James Road3 sales
- 32 St James Road3 sales
- 13 St James Road2 sales
- SLIPPER HOUSE St James Road2 sales
- 33 St James Road2 sales
- 8 St James Road2 sales
- 6 St James Road2 sales
- 17 St James Road2 sales
- 1B St James Road2 sales
- 34A St James Road2 sales
- 37 St James Road2 sales
- 16 St James Road2 sales
- 35 St James Road2 sales
- 31 St James Road2 sales
- 40 St James Road2 sales
Back to Emsworth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St James Road, Emsworth?
The median price paid in St James Road, Emsworth across every sale on the register is £195,000. 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 St James Road, Emsworth?
84 sales are on record for St James Road, Emsworth, the most recent completing on 18 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St James Road, Emsworth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +86.8% between 2004 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +27.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St James Road, Emsworth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £358,750, set in 2021. 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 St James Road, Emsworth?
£2,989 per square metre, from the 22 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 18 Jul 2025. 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, “St James Road, Emsworth 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.