Botley Road, Romsey house prices are built from 386 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £211,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +82.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +32.0%.
Median price paid
£211,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+82.1%
Change in real terms
+32.0%
Median per m²
£2,865
HM Land Registry386 sales97 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Botley Road, Romsey prices moved
The chart tracks the median Botley Road, Romsey house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 5 | £78,500 | £174,307 |
| 2000s | 10 | £195,000 | £355,233 |
| 2010s | 10 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 6 | £301,000 | £307,543 |
The highest yearly median on record for Botley Road, Romsey is £412,500 in 2024; the lowest is £54,475 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £54,475 to £356,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £120,960, so the real change over the whole record is +200.7% — about +3.74% 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: +82.1% in cash against +32.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | 27 Mar 2026 | Detached | £685,000 | £685,000 |
| 19 Montfort College | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 9 Montfort College | 12 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 4 Hillier Court | 2 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 19 Hillier Court | 22 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 22 Montfort College | 1 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| 26 | 18 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £378,000 | £386,217 |
| 9 | 25 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 1 Hillier Court | 30 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £372,500 | £380,598 |
| Flat 8 Palmerston House | 9 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £342,000 | £349,435 |
| 32 Hillier Court | 24 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 28 Hillier Court | 25 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 15 Montfort College | 19 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £322,000 | £329,000 |
| 30 Montfort College | 19 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 33 Hillier Court | 29 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 123 | 14 Nov 2024 | Detached | £690,000 | £726,045 |
| 12 | 12 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 164 | 1 Nov 2024 | Detached | £800,000 | £841,791 |
| Flat 2 Palmerston House | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 35 Montfort College | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £207,000 | £217,813 |
| 153 | 25 Sep 2024 | Detached | £640,000 | £673,433 |
| 168 | 30 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £683,955 |
| 20 Hillier Court | 25 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 24 Montfort College | 28 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 7 Montfort College | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £226,897 |
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 Botley Road, Romsey values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 Botley Road | £407,000 (2020) | £685,000 (2026) | +9.1% | +4.5% |
| 19 MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road | £86,950 (1995) | £285,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 9 MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road | £110,000 (1998) | £265,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| 4 HILLIER COURT Botley Road | £350,000 (2016) | £420,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.4% |
| 19 HILLIER COURT Botley Road | £395,000 (2016) | £400,000 (2025) | +0.1% | -3.3% |
| 22 MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road | £48,000 (1995) | £215,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 26 Botley Road | £100,000 (2000) | £378,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 9 Botley Road | £226,000 (2016) | £325,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 1 HILLIER COURT Botley Road | £360,000 (2016) | £372,500 (2025) | +0.4% | -3.0% |
| FLAT 8 PALMERSTON HOUSE Botley Road | £234,950 (2005) | £342,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 32 HILLIER COURT Botley Road | £315,000 (2016) | £380,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -1.4% |
| 28 HILLIER COURT Botley Road | £350,000 (2016) | £370,000 (2025) | +0.6% | -2.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Botley Road, Romsey 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 | 251 | 65.0% | £200,000 | £39,000 – £460,000 |
| Detached | 56 | 14.5% | £342,500 | £35,100 – £810,000 |
| Terraced | 52 | 13.5% | £176,000 | £30,000 – £378,000 |
| Semi-detached | 27 | 7.0% | £197,500 | £57,000 – £650,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Botley Road, Romsey
253 of the sales on record are leasehold and 133 freehold — 65.5% 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 £200,000 and the median freehold sale £228,000 — a gap of +14.0%. 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 | 253 | 65.5% | £200,000 |
| Freehold | 133 | 34.5% | £228,000 |
| New build | 40 | 10.4% | £310,000 |
| Existing home | 346 | 89.6% | £191,250 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +62.1%. 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 26 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 Botley Road, Romsey
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across New Forest, 41.4% of 81,792 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 319 | 0.4% |
| B | 5,972 | 7.3% |
| C | 27,549 | 33.7% |
| D | 32,422 | 39.6% |
| E | 11,558 | 14.1% |
| F | 3,080 | 3.8% |
| G | 892 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in New Forest at £1,238 a month as of Jun 2026 — £860 for a one-bedroom home and £1,384 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £211,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.04% 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 SO51, 66 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 21 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times quieter.
Against the 175,785 residents the 2021 census counted in New Forest, that is 0.38 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 Botley Road, Romsey
The 2021 census counted 175,785 residents in New Forest across 77,567 households. 74.8% of those households own their home and 25.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a SO51 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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 Mountbatten School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,474 |
| The Romsey School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,176 |
| Halterworth Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 437 |
| Cupernham Junior School | Primary | Community school | 343 |
| Romsey Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Community school | 301 |
| Cupernham Infant School | Primary | Community school | 246 |
| Wellow Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 237 |
| Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 201 |
| Awbridge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 154 |
| Braishfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 103 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Romsey Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Mottisfont & Dunbridge Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Chandlers Ford Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
| Redbridge (Hants) Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
Section 09
How Botley Road, Romsey compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Botley Road, Romsey sits above that national figure — +34.0%.
Within Romsey the street ranks 306 of 418 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-15.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,865 per square metre, across 97 of the 386 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 £30,000 to £810,000. 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.
Botley Road, Romsey sits in New Forest, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in New Forest at 10.3 times median local earnings of £36,792 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
- Middlebridge Street£135,000 median
- Winchester Road£215,500 median
- St Blaize Road£165,000 median
- Tadburn Road£198,000 median
- Cutforth Way£310,000 median
- Hunters Crescent£167,000 median
- Salisbury Road£350,000 median
- Knatchbull Close£115,000 median
- Duttons Road£294,850 median
- Westering£199,975 median
- Great Well Drive£108,000 median
- Mercer Way£153,000 median
- Alma Road£170,000 median
- Mill Lane£201,250 median
- Tavistock Close£83,000 median
- Mortimer Drive£541,475 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 22, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road8 sales
- 43, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road8 sales
- 39, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road8 sales
- 12, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road6 sales
- 27, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road6 sales
- FLAT 4, PALMERSTON HOUSE Botley Road6 sales
- 49, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road6 sales
- 4, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road6 sales
- 25, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road6 sales
- 19, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road5 sales
- 35, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road5 sales
- 10, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road5 sales
- 11 Botley Road5 sales
- 35 Botley Road5 sales
- 48, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road5 sales
- 1, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road5 sales
- 9, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road4 sales
- 15, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road4 sales
- 7, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road4 sales
- 36, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road4 sales
- 42, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road4 sales
- 34, MONTFORT COLLEGE Botley Road4 sales
- 32 Botley Road4 sales
- 43 Botley Road4 sales
Back to Romsey house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Botley Road, Romsey?
The median price paid in Botley Road, Romsey across every sale on the register is £211,000. 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 Botley Road, Romsey?
386 sales are on record for Botley Road, Romsey, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Botley Road, Romsey house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +82.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +32.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Botley Road, Romsey house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £412,500, set in 2024. 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 Botley Road, Romsey?
£2,865 per square metre, from the 97 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 27 Mar 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, “Botley Road, Romsey 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.