Handel Road, Southampton house prices are built from 316 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +18.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -12.9%.
Median price paid
£160,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+18.8%
Change in real terms
-12.9%
Median per m²
£2,084
HM Land Registry316 sales69 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Handel Road, Southampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Handel Road, Southampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 to 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 10 | £167,000 | £304,225 |
| 2010s | 6 | £177,000 | £249,570 |
| 2020s | 3 | £202,500 | £206,902 |
The highest yearly median on record for Handel Road, Southampton is £210,250 in 2024; the lowest is £120,000 in 2000. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £120,000 to £210,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £240,000, so the real change over the whole record is -7.8% — about -0.34% 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: +18.8% in cash against -12.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 7 Parkview, 5 | 27 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| Flat 70 Parkview, 5 | 4 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £166,500 | £170,120 |
| Flat 8 Parkview, 5 | 26 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| Flat 13 Parkview, 5 | 25 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Flat 29 Parkview, 5 | 18 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £224,000 | £235,701 |
| Flat 62 Parkview, 5 | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £222,500 | £234,123 |
| Flat 105 Parkview, 5 | 28 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £198,000 | £208,343 |
| Flat 83 Parkview, 5 | 27 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £181,000 | £190,455 |
| Flat 51 Parkview, 5 | 14 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| Flat 25 Parkview, 5 | 26 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £153,000 | £160,993 |
| Flat 67 Parkview, 5 | 17 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| Flat 22 Parkview, 5 | 14 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| Flat 105 Parkview, 5 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| Flat 35 Parkview, 5 | 6 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| Flat 12 Parkview, 5 | 12 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| Flat 40 Parkview, 5 | 7 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| Flat 15 Parkview, 5 | 7 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £192,000 | £222,449 |
| Flat 108 Parkview, 5 | 5 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £202,500 | £234,614 |
| Flat 77 Parkview, 5 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| Flat 64 Parkview, 5 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £163,500 | £206,573 |
| Flat 66 Parkview, 5 | 27 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| Flat 6 Parkview, 5 | 16 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £212,258 |
| Flat 36 Parkview, 5 | 30 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| Flat 30 Parkview, 5 | 17 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| Flat 84 Parkview, 5 | 27 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | £235,647 |
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 Handel Road, Southampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 7 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £77,000 (2000) | £195,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.9% |
| FLAT 70 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £107,000 (2000) | £166,500 (2025) | +1.8% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 8 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £101,500 (2000) | £205,000 (2025) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| FLAT 13 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £80,000 (1999) | £160,000 (2025) | +2.7% | +0.0% |
| FLAT 29 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £130,000 (2000) | £224,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 62 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £170,000 (2001) | £222,500 (2024) | +1.2% | -1.5% |
| FLAT 105 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £115,000 (2000) | £198,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 83 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £100,000 (2000) | £181,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.2% |
| FLAT 51 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £143,500 (2000) | £230,000 (2024) | +2.0% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 25 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £94,000 (2000) | £153,000 (2024) | +2.1% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 67 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £101,000 (2000) | £180,000 (2023) | +2.5% | -0.2% |
| FLAT 22 PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road | £90,000 (2000) | £170,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Handel Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 315 | 99.7% | £161,000 | £77,000 – £385,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.3% | £93,000 | £93,000 – £93,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Handel Road, Southampton
315 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1 freehold — 99.7% 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 £161,000 and the median freehold sale £93,000 — a gap of -42.2%. 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 | 315 | 99.7% | £161,000 |
| Freehold | 1 | 0.3% | £93,000 |
| New build | 104 | 32.9% | £120,750 |
| Existing home | 212 | 67.1% | £171,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -29.4%. 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 1 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 Handel Road, 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 £160,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.37% 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 SO15, 687 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 252 violent, 22 burglary, 26 vehicle-related and 58 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.1 times busier.
Against the 248,922 residents the 2021 census counted in Southampton, that is 2.76 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 Handel Road, 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.
12 state and independent schools have a SO15 postcode: 8 primary, 2 secondary, 1 all-through, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Anne's Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,189 |
| St Mark's Church of England School | All-through | Voluntary controlled school | 1,129 |
| Upper Shirley High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,062 |
| Springhill Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 652 |
| Wordsworth Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 619 |
| Foundry Lane Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 492 |
| Freemantle Church of England Community Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| Banister Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 417 |
| Tanners Brook Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 390 |
| Shirley Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 361 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Millbrook (Hants) Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Southampton Central Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| St Denys Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Southampton Vehicle Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 2.7 km |
Section 09
How Handel Road, Southampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Handel Road, Southampton sits above that national figure — +1.9%.
Within Southampton the street ranks 2603 of 4115 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £165,601 (-3.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,084 per square metre, across 69 of the 316 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 £77,000 to £385,000. 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.
Handel Road, 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
- Hill Lane£125,000 median
- Shirley Road£90,000 median
- Archers Road£155,000 median
- Regents Park Road£139,950 median
- Millbrook Road East£118,000 median
- Hulse Road£139,000 median
- The Dell£173,000 median
- Paynes Road£95,875 median
- Foundry Lane£132,250 median
- Waterloo Road£110,000 median
- Howard Road£81,000 median
- Richmond Road£113,475 median
- Marshall Square£260,000 median
- Park Road£108,750 median
- Silverdale Road£120,000 median
- Malmesbury Road£134,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 64, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road6 sales
- FLAT 66, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road6 sales
- FLAT 47, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road6 sales
- FLAT 32, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road6 sales
- FLAT 17, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road6 sales
- FLAT 2, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road6 sales
- FLAT 7, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 62, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 105, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 36, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 49, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 106, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 37, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 53, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 42, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road5 sales
- FLAT 83, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 51, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 25, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 35, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 12, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 40, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 108, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
- FLAT 30, PARKVIEW, 5 Handel Road4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Handel Road, Southampton?
The median price paid in Handel Road, Southampton across every sale on the register is £160,500. 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 Handel Road, Southampton?
316 sales are on record for Handel Road, Southampton, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Handel Road, Southampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +18.8% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -12.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Handel Road, Southampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £210,250, 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 Handel Road, Southampton?
£2,084 per square metre, from the 69 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 Feb 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, “Handel Road, 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.