Rufus Gardens, Southampton house prices are built from 289 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £118,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +19.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.2%.
Median price paid
£118,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+19.8%
Change in real terms
-13.2%
HM Land Registry289 salesLatest sale 19 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Rufus Gardens, Southampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rufus Gardens, Southampton 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 | £42,973 | £95,419 |
| 2000s | 9 | £119,250 | £217,238 |
| 2010s | 7 | £161,475 | £227,680 |
| 2020s | 4 | £242,500 | £247,772 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rufus Gardens, Southampton is £322,500 in 2022; the lowest is £39,725 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £39,725 to £242,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,208, so the real change over the whole record is +180.9% — about +3.50% 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 -13.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | 19 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 103 | 19 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 53 | 16 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 94 | 29 Oct 2025 | Detached | £460,000 | £470,000 |
| 68 | 25 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 89 | 19 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 117 | 15 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 50 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £192,000 | £196,174 |
| 111 | 29 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 20 | 29 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 93 | 26 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 65 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 28 | 2 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 38 | 30 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 110 | 19 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 36 | 3 May 2024 | Terraced | £247,000 | £259,903 |
| 17 | 26 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 9 | 15 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £94,500 | £99,437 |
| 82 | 29 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 90 | 21 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £480,805 |
| 16 | 20 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £227,500 | £245,805 |
| 72 | 24 Nov 2022 | Detached | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 68 | 21 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 92 | 27 May 2022 | Terraced | £345,000 | £399,712 |
| 33 | 9 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £210,000 | £243,303 |
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 Rufus Gardens, Southampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 Rufus Gardens | £39,500 (1996) | £185,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 103 Rufus Gardens | £31,500 (1995) | £165,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 53 Rufus Gardens | £38,950 (1995) | £210,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 68 Rufus Gardens | £66,000 (1999) | £275,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 89 Rufus Gardens | £33,950 (1997) | £190,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 117 Rufus Gardens | £50,500 (1996) | £295,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 50 Rufus Gardens | £38,500 (1996) | £192,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 20 Rufus Gardens | £49,800 (1996) | £275,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 111 Rufus Gardens | £129,950 (2002) | £345,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 93 Rufus Gardens | £89,500 (1999) | £370,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 65 Rufus Gardens | £175,000 (2008) | £325,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 38 Rufus Gardens | £165,750 (2007) | £265,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rufus Gardens, 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 | 153 | 52.9% | £137,500 | £36,000 – £370,000 |
| Semi-detached | 68 | 23.5% | £118,500 | £39,500 – £445,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 56 | 19.4% | £67,000 | £23,500 – £190,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 4.2% | £120,000 | £39,500 – £460,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rufus Gardens, Southampton
63 of the sales on record are leasehold and 226 freehold — 21.8% 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 £69,000 and the median freehold sale £135,500 — a gap of +96.4%. 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 | 21.8% | £69,000 |
| Freehold | 226 | 78.2% | £135,500 |
A further 3 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 Rufus Gardens, Southampton
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 £118,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.59% 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 SO40, 126 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 5 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 12 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times quieter.
Against the 175,785 residents the 2021 census counted in New Forest, that is 0.72 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 Rufus Gardens, Southampton
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.
16 state and independent schools have a SO40 postcode: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hounsdown School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,283 |
| Testwood School | Secondary | Academy converter | 820 |
| Abbotswood Junior School | Primary | Foundation school | 629 |
| Foxhills Junior School | Primary | Community school | 281 |
| Bartley Church of England Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 279 |
| Marchwood Junior School | Primary | Community school | 258 |
| Hazel Wood Infant School | Primary | Community school | 202 |
| Calmore Junior School | Primary | Foundation school | 195 |
| Foxhills Infant School | Primary | Community school | 178 |
| Calmore Infant School | Primary | Community school | 174 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Totton Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Redbridge (Hants) Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Ashurst New Forest Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Millbrook (Hants) Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
Section 09
How Rufus Gardens, Southampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rufus Gardens, Southampton sits below that national figure — -25.1%.
Within Southampton the street ranks 3643 of 4115 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £165,601 (-28.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £23,500 to £460,000. 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.
Rufus Gardens, Southampton 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
- Northlands Road£161,875 median
- Brunel Road£93,000 median
- Salisbury Road£186,000 median
- Water Lane£125,000 median
- Woodlands Road£375,000 median
- Tides Way£118,000 median
- Ringwood Road£193,000 median
- Calmore Road£230,000 median
- Commercial Road£86,000 median
- Quayside Walk£210,000 median
- School Road£224,000 median
- Popes Lane£183,450 median
- Alder Hill Drive£114,000 median
- Testwood Lane£226,000 median
- Rumbridge Street£113,500 median
- Stanley Road£147,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 53 Rufus Gardens7 sales
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- 103 Rufus Gardens5 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rufus Gardens, Southampton?
The median price paid in Rufus Gardens, Southampton across every sale on the register is £118,000. 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 Rufus Gardens, Southampton?
289 sales are on record for Rufus Gardens, Southampton, the most recent completing on 19 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rufus Gardens, Southampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +19.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rufus Gardens, Southampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £322,500, set in 2022. 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 Rufus Gardens, Southampton?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 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, “Rufus Gardens, 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.