School Road, Southampton house prices are built from 193 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £224,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +26.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.8%.
Median price paid
£224,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+26.6%
Change in real terms
-9.8%
Median per m²
£3,804
HM Land Registry193 sales4 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Nov 2025
Section 01
How School Road, Southampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Road, 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 | 4 | £82,225 | £182,578 |
| 2000s | 8 | £199,950 | £364,250 |
| 2010s | 8 | £245,000 | £345,450 |
| 2020s | 4 | £325,000 | £332,065 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Road, Southampton is £397,500 in 2019; the lowest is £63,875 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £85,000 to £345,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £188,740, so the real change over the whole record is +86.8% — about +2.10% 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: +26.6% in cash against -9.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 27 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £281,000 | £287,109 |
| Hazeldene | 8 Aug 2025 | Detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| Lady Mead | 3 Jun 2025 | Detached | £1,450,000 | £1,481,522 |
| 47 | 7 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 7 Brixenden House | 13 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £345,000 | £352,500 |
| Flat 2 Oak Tree Court, 19 | 10 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 33 | 27 Jan 2025 | Detached | £695,000 | £710,109 |
| 15 | 19 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £285,000 | £299,888 |
| Laurel House | 3 Apr 2024 | Detached | £760,000 | £799,701 |
| 17 | 2 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 35 | 31 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| Flat 4 Oak Tree Court, 19 | 21 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 29 | 26 Aug 2022 | Detached | £263,000 | £304,708 |
| 33 | 23 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 15 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £423,000 | £490,082 |
| 6 Brixenden House | 18 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| Woodside Cottage | 14 Mar 2022 | Detached | £460,550 | £533,587 |
| 26 | 25 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| Flat 3 Oak Tree Court, 19 | 12 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 19 | 22 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| Flat 2 Elver Court | 10 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 7 Brixenden House | 29 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| Lavender Cottage | 25 Jun 2021 | Detached | £817,500 | £1,032,863 |
| 3 Brixenden House | 28 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £362,500 | £457,997 |
| 22 | 30 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £275,000 | £347,446 |
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 School 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 School Road | £155,000 (2009) | £281,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| LADY MEAD School Road | £735,000 (2002) | £1,450,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| 7 BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road | £210,000 (2001) | £345,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 2 OAK TREE COURT, 19 School Road | £225,000 (2012) | £300,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 33 School Road | £248,950 (2003) | £695,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
| 15 School Road | £340,000 (2016) | £285,000 (2024) | -2.2% | -5.6% |
| LAUREL HOUSE School Road | £670,000 (2016) | £760,000 (2024) | +1.6% | -1.9% |
| 35 School Road | £59,000 (1996) | £315,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 29 School Road | £320,000 (2008) | £263,000 (2022) | -1.4% | -4.0% |
| 6 BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road | £224,000 (2001) | £325,000 (2022) | +1.8% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 3 OAK TREE COURT, 19 School Road | £250,000 (2020) | £260,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.5% |
| 19 School Road | £400,000 (2005) | £225,000 (2021) | -3.5% | -5.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 56 | 29.0% | £360,000 | £60,000 – £1,450,000 |
| Terraced | 54 | 28.0% | £167,950 | £33,390 – £435,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 48 | 24.9% | £225,000 | £48,000 – £362,500 |
| Semi-detached | 35 | 18.1% | £195,000 | £64,950 – £535,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Road, Southampton
49 of the sales on record are leasehold and 144 freehold — 25.4% 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 £235,000 and the median freehold sale £211,250 — a gap of -10.1%. 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 | 49 | 25.4% | £235,000 |
| Freehold | 144 | 74.6% | £211,250 |
| New build | 12 | 6.2% | £204,500 |
| Existing home | 181 | 93.8% | £230,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -11.1%. 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 2 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 School Road, 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 £224,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.63% 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 School Road, 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 School Road, Southampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Road, Southampton sits above that national figure — +42.2%.
Within Southampton the street ranks 1482 of 4115 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £165,601 (+35.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,804 per square metre, across 4 of the 193 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 £33,390 to £1,450,000. 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.
School Road, 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
- Rufus Gardens£118,000 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
- 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
- 37 School Road10 sales
- 14 School Road7 sales
- 41 School Road7 sales
- 4 School Road6 sales
- 7, BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road5 sales
- 3, BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road5 sales
- 23 School Road5 sales
- ADVENT COTTAGE School Road5 sales
- 2, BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road4 sales
- 1 School Road4 sales
- 4, BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road4 sales
- 6 School Road4 sales
- 9, GREYLADYES School Road4 sales
- 33 School Road3 sales
- 15 School Road3 sales
- 35 School Road3 sales
- 25 School Road3 sales
- KINGS ASH School Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, ELVER COURT School Road3 sales
- 8, BRIXENDEN HOUSE School Road3 sales
- 5 School Road3 sales
- 39 School Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, ELVER COURT, 3 School Road3 sales
- BRAMBLE BANK School Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Road, Southampton?
The median price paid in School Road, Southampton across every sale on the register is £224,000. 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 School Road, Southampton?
193 sales are on record for School Road, Southampton, the most recent completing on 27 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Road, Southampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +26.6% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Road, Southampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £397,500, set in 2019. 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 School Road, Southampton?
£3,804 per square metre, from the 4 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 Nov 2025. 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, “School 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.