Waterloo Road, Southampton house prices are built from 367 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +45.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.0%.
Median price paid
£110,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+45.8%
Change in real terms
+7.0%
Median per m²
£2,105
HM Land Registry367 sales97 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Waterloo Road, Southampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Waterloo Road, Southampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £38,748 | £86,038 |
| 2000s | 10 | £119,998 | £218,600 |
| 2010s | 9 | £120,000 | £169,200 |
| 2020s | 3 | £157,000 | £160,413 |
The highest yearly median on record for Waterloo Road, Southampton is £175,000 in 2024; the lowest is £34,750 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £38,748 to £175,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,038, so the real change over the whole record is +114.0% — about +2.66% 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: +45.8% in cash against +7.0% 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 2 Bridgewater Court | 5 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| Flat 20 Capstan House, 38 | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| Flat 17 Capstan House, 38 | 22 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| Flat 2 Wellington Court, 9 – 11 | 24 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| Flat 20 Capstan House, 38 | 13 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £128,000 | £134,687 |
| 39 | 7 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 30 | 3 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 24 | 31 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| 102 | 8 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| Flat 2 Napoleon House, 15 | 24 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £148,000 | £159,908 |
| 85 | 29 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £175,000 | £189,080 |
| Flat 6 Wellington Court, 9 – 11 | 16 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £118,851 |
| Flat 17 Bridgewater Court | 26 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £164,000 | £177,195 |
| 60a | 8 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| Flat 3 Wellington Court, 9 – 11 | 4 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £162,069 |
| Flat 17 Capstan House, 38 | 27 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £131,000 | £141,540 |
| Flat 19 Capstan House, 38 | 24 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £133,000 | £143,701 |
| Flat 8 Bridgewater Court | 22 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 122 | 10 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £405,172 |
| Flat 5 Capstan House, 38 | 28 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 41b | 11 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 98 | 7 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £214,000 | £247,938 |
| Flat D 77 | 26 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 56 | 12 May 2022 | Terraced | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| Flat 5 Wellesley House, 34 – 36 | 7 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
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 Waterloo 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 2 BRIDGEWATER COURT Waterloo Road | £128,000 (2005) | £165,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.6% |
| FLAT 20 CAPSTAN HOUSE, 38 Waterloo Road | £128,000 (2024) | £135,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.4% |
| FLAT 17 CAPSTAN HOUSE, 38 Waterloo Road | £37,100 (1996) | £135,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| FLAT 2 WELLINGTON COURT, 9 – 11 Waterloo Road | £112,000 (2009) | £175,000 (2025) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 39 Waterloo Road | £59,000 (1999) | £175,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 30 Waterloo Road | £166,000 (2005) | £320,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| FLAT 2 NAPOLEON HOUSE, 15 Waterloo Road | £63,500 (2001) | £148,000 (2023) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| FLAT 6 WELLINGTON COURT, 9 – 11 Waterloo Road | £92,000 (2014) | £110,000 (2023) | +2.0% | -1.2% |
| FLAT 17 BRIDGEWATER COURT Waterloo Road | £119,950 (2003) | £164,000 (2023) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| FLAT 19 CAPSTAN HOUSE, 38 Waterloo Road | £43,000 (1999) | £133,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| FLAT 8 BRIDGEWATER COURT Waterloo Road | £48,950 (1998) | £165,000 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 122 Waterloo Road | £405,000 (2008) | £375,000 (2023) | -0.5% | -3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Waterloo 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 | 260 | 70.8% | £99,000 | £17,000 – £207,500 |
| Semi-detached | 68 | 18.5% | £155,000 | £28,500 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 23 | 6.3% | £124,000 | £30,000 – £320,000 |
| Detached | 16 | 4.4% | £210,000 | £55,000 – £405,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Waterloo Road, Southampton
260 of the sales on record are leasehold and 107 freehold — 70.8% 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 £99,300 and the median freehold sale £155,000 — a gap of +56.1%. 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 | 260 | 70.8% | £99,300 |
| Freehold | 107 | 29.2% | £155,000 |
| New build | 10 | 2.7% | £94,000 |
| Existing home | 357 | 97.3% | £112,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -16.1%. 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 43 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 Waterloo 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 £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.67% 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 Waterloo 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 Waterloo Road, Southampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Waterloo Road, Southampton sits below that national figure — -30.2%.
Within Southampton the street ranks 3770 of 4115 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £165,601 (-33.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,105 per square metre, across 97 of the 367 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 £17,000 to £425,000. 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.
Waterloo 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
- Howard Road£81,000 median
- Richmond Road£113,475 median
- Marshall Square£260,000 median
- Handel Road£160,500 median
- Park Road£108,750 median
- Silverdale Road£120,000 median
- Malmesbury Road£134,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 17, CAPSTAN HOUSE, 38 Waterloo Road6 sales
- 39 Waterloo Road5 sales
- FLAT 2, 103 Waterloo Road5 sales
- FLAT 7, WELLESLEY HOUSE, 34 – 36 Waterloo Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, WELLINGTON COURT, 9 – 11 Waterloo Road5 sales
- FLAT 9, BRIDGEWATER COURT Waterloo Road5 sales
- FLAT 3, 100 Waterloo Road5 sales
- FLAT 8, BRIDGEWATER COURT Waterloo Road4 sales
- 41B Waterloo Road4 sales
- 98 Waterloo Road4 sales
- 5B Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 100 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, WELLESLEY HOUSE, 34 – 36 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT G, LARCHWOOD COURT Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, WELLINGTON COURT, 9 – 11 Waterloo Road4 sales
- 58A Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, NAPOLEON HOUSE, 15 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 100 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, NAPOLEON HOUSE, 15 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT E, LARCHWOOD COURT Waterloo Road4 sales
- 7 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, WELLINGTON COURT, 9 – 11 Waterloo Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, HOUGHOUMONT HOUSE, 13 Waterloo Road4 sales
- TOP FLAT, 69 Waterloo Road4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Waterloo Road, Southampton?
The median price paid in Waterloo Road, Southampton across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 Waterloo Road, Southampton?
367 sales are on record for Waterloo Road, Southampton, the most recent completing on 5 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Waterloo Road, Southampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +45.8% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Waterloo Road, Southampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £175,000, 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 Waterloo Road, Southampton?
£2,105 per square metre, from the 97 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 5 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, “Waterloo 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.