Rails Lane, Hayling Island house prices are built from 125 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,000. Across the 11 years from 2010 to 2021 the median moved +69.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +33.9%.
Median price paid
£157,000
Change in cash, 2010–2021
+69.2%
Change in real terms
+33.9%
Median per m²
£2,722
HM Land Registry125 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Rails Lane, Hayling Island prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rails Lane, Hayling Island 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 | 2 | £46,000 | £102,142 |
| 2000s | 2 | £171,998 | £313,329 |
| 2010s | 6 | £170,000 | £239,700 |
| 2020s | 1 | £225,000 | £229,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rails Lane, Hayling Island is £225,000 in 2021; the lowest is £46,000 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £46,000 to £225,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,785, so the real change over the whole record is +184.9% — about +4.28% 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: +69.2% in cash against +33.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Foreland Court, 50 | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £166,000 | £166,000 |
| 47 | 7 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 55 | 8 Aug 2025 | Detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 17 Foreland Court, 50 | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 90 | 8 Mar 2024 | Detached | £462,500 | £486,660 |
| 18 Foreland Court, 50 | 23 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 39 | 15 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 58b | 27 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 8 Foreland Court, 50 | 3 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 3 Buccaneer House, 11 | 13 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £157,000 | £181,898 |
| 1 Buccaneer House, 11 | 28 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| 62 | 14 Dec 2021 | Detached | £472,000 | £596,344 |
| 5 Buccaneer House, 11 | 19 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £222,500 | £281,116 |
| 7 Buccaneer House, 11 | 10 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 9 Foreland Court, 50 | 10 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £182,500 | £230,578 |
| 51 | 22 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £352,500 | £445,363 |
| 74 | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 1a Buccaneer House, 11 | 26 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 10 Foreland Court, 50 | 11 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £220,110 |
| 55 | 7 Dec 2020 | Detached | £438,000 | £567,107 |
| 82 | 29 May 2020 | Detached | £282,500 | £365,771 |
| 74a | 5 Oct 2018 | Detached | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| 22c | 22 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £101,000 | £134,603 |
| 39 | 11 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £326,512 |
| 12 Foreland Court, 50 | 11 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £158,000 | £210,567 |
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 Rails Lane, Hayling Island values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane | £83,000 (2002) | £166,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| 55 Rails Lane | £438,000 (2020) | £500,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -2.1% |
| 17 FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane | £45,500 (1996) | £115,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.6% |
| 90 Rails Lane | £124,500 (1998) | £462,500 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 39 Rails Lane | £195,000 (2013) | £300,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| 58B Rails Lane | £165,000 (2016) | £220,000 (2023) | +4.2% | +0.5% |
| 8 FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane | £44,000 (1996) | £140,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 1 BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane | £124,995 (2011) | £190,000 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 62 Rails Lane | £232,500 (2006) | £472,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 5 BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane | £124,995 (2012) | £222,500 (2021) | +6.6% | +4.7% |
| 9 FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane | £42,000 (1999) | £182,500 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 7 BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane | £179,995 (2007) | £220,000 (2021) | +1.4% | -0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rails Lane, Hayling Island 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 70 | 56.0% | £130,000 | £41,500 – £225,000 |
| Detached | 39 | 31.2% | £256,000 | £38,000 – £500,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 11.2% | £195,000 | £85,000 – £375,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.6% | £169,995 | £169,995 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rails Lane, Hayling Island
70 of the sales on record are leasehold and 55 freehold — 56.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £131,000 and the median freehold sale £230,000 — a gap of +75.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 70 | 56.0% | £131,000 |
| Freehold | 55 | 44.0% | £230,000 |
| New build | 7 | 5.6% | £147,995 |
| Existing home | 118 | 94.4% | £157,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.0%. 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 Rails Lane, Hayling Island
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Havant, 47.5% of 60,027 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 126 | 0.2% |
| B | 6,528 | 10.9% |
| C | 21,866 | 36.4% |
| D | 22,579 | 37.6% |
| E | 6,903 | 11.5% |
| F | 1,640 | 2.7% |
| G | 385 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Havant at £1,140 a month as of Jun 2026 — £844 for a one-bedroom home and £1,341 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £157,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.71% 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 PO11, 91 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 43 violent, 4 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 10 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times quieter.
Against the 124,208 residents the 2021 census counted in Havant, that is 0.73 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 Rails Lane, Hayling Island
The 2021 census counted 124,208 residents in Havant across 53,589 households. 68.8% of those households own their home and 31.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
5 state and independent schools have a PO11 postcode: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hayling College | Secondary | Foundation school | 516 |
| Mill Rythe Junior School | Primary | Community school | 248 |
| Mengham Junior School | Primary | Community school | 238 |
| Mengham Infant School | Primary | Community school | 154 |
| Mill Rythe Infant School | Primary | Foundation school | 127 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hayling Island Ferry Landing | Ferry | 3.5 km |
| Eastney Ferry Landing | Ferry | 3.8 km |
| Warblington Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
| Fratton Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
Section 09
How Rails Lane, Hayling Island compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rails Lane, Hayling Island sits below that national figure — -0.3%.
Within Hayling Island the street ranks 184 of 221 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-15.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,722 per square metre, across 11 of the 125 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 £38,000 to £500,000. 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.
Rails Lane, Hayling Island sits in Havant, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Havant at 9.2 times median local earnings of £35,162 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
- Sea Front£124,995 median
- Southwood Road£123,375 median
- Fathoms Reach£150,000 median
- St Marys Road£235,000 median
- Havant Road£240,000 median
- Sea Front Estate£142,500 median
- Staunton Avenue£98,000 median
- West Lane£220,000 median
- Elm Grove£114,750 median
- Sandy Point Road£177,000 median
- Salterns Lane£156,250 median
- Manor Road£205,000 median
- Station Road£152,000 median
- Creek Road£132,500 median
- Elm Close Estate£186,000 median
- Sinah Lane£360,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 11, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane6 sales
- 8, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane6 sales
- 17, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane4 sales
- 39 Rails Lane4 sales
- 9, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane4 sales
- 74 Rails Lane4 sales
- 16, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane4 sales
- 1A, BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane3 sales
- 10, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane3 sales
- 54 Rails Lane3 sales
- 6, BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane3 sales
- 72 Rails Lane3 sales
- 84 Rails Lane3 sales
- 33 Rails Lane3 sales
- 55 Rails Lane2 sales
- 90 Rails Lane2 sales
- 58B Rails Lane2 sales
- 1, BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane2 sales
- 62 Rails Lane2 sales
- 5, BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane2 sales
- 7, BUCCANEER HOUSE, 11 Rails Lane2 sales
- 22C Rails Lane2 sales
- 12, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane2 sales
- 3, FORELAND COURT, 50 Rails Lane2 sales
Back to Hayling Island house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rails Lane, Hayling Island?
The median price paid in Rails Lane, Hayling Island across every sale on the register is £157,000. 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 Rails Lane, Hayling Island?
125 sales are on record for Rails Lane, Hayling Island, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rails Lane, Hayling Island house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.2% between 2010 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +33.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rails Lane, Hayling Island house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £225,000, 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 Rails Lane, Hayling Island?
£2,722 per square metre, from the 11 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 30 Apr 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, “Rails Lane, Hayling Island 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.