Cowley Close, Southampton house prices are built from 251 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £120,000. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +44.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.2%.
Median price paid
£120,000
Change in cash, 2009–2021
+44.7%
Change in real terms
+11.2%
Median per m²
£2,391
HM Land Registry251 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Cowley Close, Southampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Cowley Close, Southampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £55,500 | £123,236 |
| 2000s | 9 | £132,500 | £241,376 |
| 2010s | 8 | £191,000 | £269,310 |
| 2020s | 1 | £238,750 | £243,940 |
The highest yearly median on record for Cowley Close, Southampton is £238,750 in 2021; the lowest is £42,500 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £43,500 to £238,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £96,591, so the real change over the whole record is +212.3% — about +4.48% 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: +44.7% in cash against +11.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £132,000 | £132,000 |
| 8 | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £118,000 |
| 94 | 25 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £256,000 | £256,000 |
| 6 | 31 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 36 | 12 May 2025 | Detached | £340,500 | £347,902 |
| 97 | 1 May 2025 | Terraced | £196,000 | £200,261 |
| 103 | 14 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £252,000 | £257,478 |
| 24 | 15 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 76 | 27 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £186,500 | £196,243 |
| 35 | 30 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 54 | 21 Dec 2022 | Detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 9 | 16 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £162,202 |
| 34 | 3 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £291,000 | £337,149 |
| 5 | 20 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 51 | 12 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 29 | 22 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £249,950 | £315,797 |
| 110 | 25 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £234,000 | £295,645 |
| 54 | 15 Jul 2021 | Detached | £289,000 | £365,134 |
| 23 | 24 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £244,000 | £308,280 |
| 6 | 28 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £122,000 | £154,140 |
| 88 | 26 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 3 | 26 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £125,000 | £157,930 |
| 10 | 22 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £164,247 |
| 52 | 5 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £242,500 | £306,384 |
| 94 | 22 May 2020 | Terraced | £192,500 | £249,242 |
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 Cowley Close, Southampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Cowley Close | £38,750 (1997) | £132,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 8 Cowley Close | £31,450 (1996) | £118,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 94 Cowley Close | £42,500 (1996) | £256,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 6 Cowley Close | £62,500 (2001) | £160,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 36 Cowley Close | £179,000 (2011) | £340,500 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 97 Cowley Close | £39,000 (1995) | £196,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 103 Cowley Close | £54,000 (1996) | £252,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 24 Cowley Close | £68,950 (1998) | £275,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 76 Cowley Close | £60,000 (1999) | £186,500 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 35 Cowley Close | £75,950 (1998) | £355,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 54 Cowley Close | £93,000 (1999) | £375,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 9 Cowley Close | £57,500 (2000) | £140,000 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Cowley Close, Southampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 108 | 43.0% | £118,500 | £32,800 – £267,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 60 | 23.9% | £104,250 | £31,450 – £252,000 |
| Semi-detached | 57 | 22.7% | £170,000 | £43,995 – £355,000 |
| Detached | 26 | 10.4% | £150,000 | £56,000 – £375,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Cowley Close, Southampton
63 of the sales on record are leasehold and 188 freehold — 25.1% 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 £104,000 and the median freehold sale £145,000 — a gap of +39.4%. 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 | 63 | 25.1% | £104,000 |
| Freehold | 188 | 74.9% | £145,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.4% | £198,947 |
| Existing home | 250 | 99.6% | £120,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +65.8%. 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 5 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 Cowley Close, Southampton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Southampton, 46.1% of 134,900 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 161 | 0.1% |
| B | 13,991 | 10.4% |
| C | 47,997 | 35.6% |
| D | 49,170 | 36.4% |
| E | 17,515 | 13.0% |
| F | 4,828 | 3.6% |
| G | 1,238 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Southampton at £1,253 a month as of Jun 2026 — £878 for a one-bedroom home and £1,352 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £120,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.53% 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 SO16, 331 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 123 violent, 8 burglary, 26 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.
Against the 248,922 residents the 2021 census counted in Southampton, that is 1.33 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 Cowley Close, Southampton
The 2021 census counted 248,922 residents in Southampton across 102,290 households. 48.8% of those households own their home and 51.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
21 state and independent schools have a SO16 postcode: 15 primary, 5 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantell School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,313 |
| Redbridge Community School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,106 |
| Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,031 |
| Regents Park Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 812 |
| Oasis Academy Lord's Hill | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 667 |
| Newlands Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 420 |
| Oakwood Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 419 |
| Bassett Green Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 412 |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School – Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 412 |
| Fairisle Junior School | Primary | Foundation school | 375 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Millbrook (Hants) Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Redbridge (Hants) Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Southampton Central Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| St Denys Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
Section 09
How Cowley Close, Southampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cowley Close, Southampton sits below that national figure — -23.8%.
Within Southampton the street ranks 3586 of 4115 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £165,601 (-27.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,391 per square metre, across 65 of the 251 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 £31,450 to £375,000. 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.
Cowley Close, Southampton sits in Southampton, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Southampton at 6.6 times median local earnings of £39,464 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
- Romsey Road£150,000 median
- Oakley Road£133,000 median
- Coxford Road£137,750 median
- Burgess Road£175,000 median
- Chelveston Crescent£91,750 median
- Oakwood Drive£162,250 median
- Bassett Avenue£160,000 median
- Tremona Road£84,500 median
- Bassett Green Road£245,000 median
- Rownhams Road£170,500 median
- Grove Place£250,000 median
- Kern Close£80,000 median
- Barons Mead£94,500 median
- Percy Road£155,000 median
- Briarswood£97,500 median
- Glen Eyre Road£155,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 8 Cowley Close7 sales
- 9 Cowley Close7 sales
- 97 Cowley Close6 sales
- 10 Cowley Close6 sales
- 106 Cowley Close6 sales
- 62 Cowley Close6 sales
- 94 Cowley Close5 sales
- 3 Cowley Close5 sales
- 13 Cowley Close5 sales
- 96 Cowley Close5 sales
- 103 Cowley Close4 sales
- 35 Cowley Close4 sales
- 54 Cowley Close4 sales
- 34 Cowley Close4 sales
- 110 Cowley Close4 sales
- 88 Cowley Close4 sales
- 56 Cowley Close4 sales
- 100 Cowley Close4 sales
- 75 Cowley Close4 sales
- 16 Cowley Close4 sales
- 22 Cowley Close4 sales
- 31 Cowley Close4 sales
- 55 Cowley Close4 sales
- 45 Cowley Close4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Cowley Close, Southampton?
The median price paid in Cowley Close, Southampton across every sale on the register is £120,000. 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 Cowley Close, Southampton?
251 sales are on record for Cowley Close, Southampton, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Cowley Close, Southampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +44.7% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Cowley Close, Southampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £238,750, 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 Cowley Close, Southampton?
£2,391 per square metre, from the 65 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 May 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, “Cowley Close, Southampton 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.