Southam house prices

Southam house prices are built from 10,905 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £208,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +19.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -14.2%.

HM Land Registry10,905 sales1,151 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Southam 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 Southam is £332,500 in 2025; the lowest is £66,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £66,500 to £317,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £147,661, so the real change over the whole record is +115.0% — about +2.50% 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: +19.8% in cash against -14.2% 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.

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 Southam values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,118 certificates cover Southam, and their median floor area is 82 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

864 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,041 freehold — 7.9% 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 £118,500 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +85.7%. 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 — +38.5%. 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 760 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 Rugby, 51.3% of 54,062 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% 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 Rugby at £1,042 a month as of Jun 2026 — £750 for a one-bedroom home and £1,115 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £208,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.01% 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 CV47, 13 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 12.8 times quieter.

Against the 114,363 residents the 2021 census counted in Rugby, that is 0.11 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 114,363 residents in Rugby across 47,015 households. 68.9% of those households own their home and 30.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a CV47 postcode: 10 primary, 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. Southam sits above that national figure — +32.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,659 per square metre, across 1,151 of the 10,905 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 £2,000 to £1,750,000. 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.

Southam sits in Rugby, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Rugby at 6.9 times median local earnings of £42,966 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 Southam

• Flying Fields Road156 sales
• Banbury Road148 sales
• High Street128 sales
• Barkus Close119 sales
• Pound Way119 sales
• The Furrows118 sales
• Stowe Drive116 sales
• The Model Village115 sales
• St Wulstan Way107 sales
• Millholme Close105 sales
• Meldrum Court104 sales
• Dale Close99 sales
• Laurel Drive96 sales
• Warwick Road95 sales
• Chapel Street94 sales
• Spitfire Road94 sales
• Hampden Court92 sales
• Linley Road92 sales
• Chestnut Place89 sales
• Ropeway89 sales
• Manders Croft88 sales
• Southam Road88 sales
• Mallard Close87 sales
• Mill Crescent87 sales
• Hillside Croft85 sales
• Poplar Road85 sales
• Falkland Place83 sales
• Pendicke Street78 sales
• Kingfisher Drive77 sales
• Napton Road77 sales
• Leigh Crescent76 sales
• Church Road74 sales
• Scowcroft Drive73 sales
• Stockton Road73 sales
• St Marys Close72 sales
• George Street71 sales
• Watergall Close71 sales
• Welsh Road West71 sales
• Little Park68 sales
• Merestone Close68 sales
• Old Road67 sales
• Field Gate Lane66 sales
• Grange Farm Drive66 sales
• Gaydon Road64 sales
• Bishops Gate63 sales
• Elm Row63 sales
• Station Road63 sales
• Abbey Lane61 sales
• Willow Gardens61 sales
• Meadow Way59 sales
• Hurst Road58 sales
• School Street57 sales
• Galanos55 sales
• Lakin Drive55 sales
• Rainsbrook Close55 sales
• Rupert Kettle Drive55 sales
• Ladbroke Road54 sales
• Top Street53 sales
• Butchers Close52 sales
• Bull Street50 sales

Postcode districts covering Southam

• CV47£208,000 median

What is the average house price in Southam?

The median price paid in Southam across every sale on the register is £208,000. 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 Southam?

10,905 sales are on record for Southam, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Southam house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +19.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -14.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Southam house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £332,500, set in 2025. 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 Southam?

£2,659 per square metre, from the 1,151 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 26 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, “Southam 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.