Albert Road, Southsea house prices are built from 274 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 31 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £85,000. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +60.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.0%.
Median price paid
£85,000
Change in cash, 2009–2021
+60.0%
Change in real terms
+23.0%
Median per m²
£1,511
HM Land Registry274 sales44 with floor areaLatest sale 31 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Albert Road, Southsea prices moved
The chart tracks the median Albert Road, Southsea 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 | £45,000 | £99,921 |
| 2000s | 10 | £82,000 | £149,380 |
| 2010s | 4 | £100,000 | £141,000 |
| 2020s | 1 | £128,000 | £130,783 |
The highest yearly median on record for Albert Road, Southsea is £145,000 in 2012; the lowest is £28,000 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £128,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +61.8% — about +1.87% 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: +60.0% in cash against +23.0% 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 27 | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 139a | 24 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £97,500 | £99,620 |
| Flat 27 Keyes Court | 25 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| Flat 1 23 | 23 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| Flat 11 Heron House | 11 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 213 | 26 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £123,000 | £132,897 |
| Flat 4 Heron House | 12 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £135,500 | £156,988 |
| 62a | 9 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| Flat 8 Heron House | 22 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £157,930 |
| Flat 27 Keyes Court | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| Flat 3 23 | 13 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| Flat 4 13a | 7 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £128,000 | £161,720 |
| 125a | 12 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| 83b | 30 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £595,000 | £770,386 |
| 36b | 13 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £166,113 |
| Flat 3 23 | 14 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £131,000 | £171,345 |
| Flat 1 23 | 29 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £156,957 |
| Flat 10 Heron House | 2 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £166,588 |
| Flat 2 27 | 27 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £163,922 |
| Flat 24 Keyes Court | 31 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £153,261 |
| Flat 1 Keyes Court | 31 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £57,500 | £76,630 |
| 104b | 13 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £119,000 | £158,592 |
| 193 | 9 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £211,000 | £281,200 |
| Top Flat 158 | 19 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £113,000 | £150,595 |
| First Floor Flat 148 | 24 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £122,490 |
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 Albert Road, Southsea 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 27 Albert Road | £42,000 (2002) | £140,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.5% |
| 139A Albert Road | £85,000 (2005) | £97,500 (2025) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| FLAT 27 KEYES COURT Albert Road | £120,000 (2021) | £110,000 (2024) | -2.9% | -8.6% |
| FLAT 1 23 Albert Road | £120,000 (2006) | £140,000 (2023) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| FLAT 11 HERON HOUSE Albert Road | £120,000 (2002) | £180,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -0.8% |
| FLAT 4 HERON HOUSE Albert Road | £83,000 (2002) | £135,500 (2022) | +2.5% | -0.1% |
| FLAT 8 HERON HOUSE Albert Road | £89,995 (2002) | £125,000 (2021) | +1.7% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 3 23 Albert Road | £120,000 (2006) | £135,000 (2021) | +0.8% | -1.5% |
| 125A Albert Road | £15,000 (1996) | £135,000 (2021) | +9.2% | +6.9% |
| FLAT 10 HERON HOUSE Albert Road | £89,995 (2002) | £125,000 (2018) | +2.1% | -0.3% |
| 104B Albert Road | £22,000 (1995) | £119,000 (2018) | +7.6% | +5.3% |
| TOP FLAT 158 Albert Road | £54,995 (2002) | £113,000 (2018) | +4.6% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Albert Road, Southsea 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 | 171 | 62.4% | £83,000 | £8,000 – £210,000 |
| Terraced | 94 | 34.3% | £87,500 | £15,000 – £595,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 2.9% | £80,000 | £30,000 – £325,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.4% | £80,000 | £80,000 – £80,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Albert Road, Southsea
165 of the sales on record are leasehold and 109 freehold — 60.2% 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 £83,000 and the median freehold sale £87,500 — a gap of +5.4%. 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 | 165 | 60.2% | £83,000 |
| Freehold | 109 | 39.8% | £87,500 |
| New build | 16 | 5.8% | £100,000 |
| Existing home | 258 | 94.2% | £85,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +17.6%. 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 64 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 Albert Road, Southsea
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Portsmouth, 44.0% of 119,335 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 131 | 0.1% |
| B | 8,148 | 6.8% |
| C | 44,179 | 37.0% |
| D | 48,720 | 40.8% |
| E | 13,904 | 11.7% |
| F | 3,106 | 2.6% |
| G | 1,147 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Portsmouth at £1,367 a month as of Jun 2026 — £900 for a one-bedroom home and £1,357 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £85,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 19.30% 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 PO4, 568 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 224 violent, 12 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 88 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.4 times busier.
Against the 208,003 residents the 2021 census counted in Portsmouth, that is 2.73 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 Albert Road, Southsea
The 2021 census counted 208,003 residents in Portsmouth across 86,155 households. 53.2% of those households own their home and 46.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a PO4 postcode: 10 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priory School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,278 |
| Wimborne Primary School | Primary | Community school | 557 |
| Craneswater Junior School | Primary | Community school | 508 |
| Milton Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 382 |
| Fernhurst Junior School | Primary | Community school | 349 |
| Meon Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 336 |
| Cumberland Infant School | Primary | Community school | 172 |
| Devonshire Infant School | Primary | Community school | 171 |
| Bramble Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 162 |
| Meon Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 133 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Fratton Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Portsmouth & Southsea Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Eastney Ferry Landing | Ferry | 2.4 km |
| Hayling Island Ferry Landing | Ferry | 2.7 km |
Section 09
How Albert Road, Southsea compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Albert Road, Southsea sits below that national figure — -46.0%.
Within Southsea the street ranks 471 of 486 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £137,995 (-38.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,511 per square metre, across 44 of the 274 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 £8,000 to £595,000. 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.
Albert Road, Southsea sits in Portsmouth, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Portsmouth at 6.7 times median local earnings of £38,815 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
- South Parade£169,998 median
- Fawcett Road£102,500 median
- Westfield Road£136,000 median
- Eastfield Road£135,985 median
- Francis Avenue£138,095 median
- Landguard Road£132,500 median
- Highland Road£107,000 median
- Devonshire Avenue£173,000 median
- Granada Road£123,000 median
- Reginald Road£135,000 median
- Talbot Road£124,000 median
- Percy Road£136,750 median
- St Augustine Road£159,995 median
- Locksway Road£155,000 median
- Haslemere Road£165,000 median
- Winter Road£137,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, 27 Albert Road5 sales
- 125A Albert Road5 sales
- 90 Albert Road5 sales
- SAMPSONS ELECTRICAL, 37A Albert Road5 sales
- 135A Albert Road5 sales
- FLAT 1, 23 Albert Road4 sales
- FLAT 11, HERON HOUSE Albert Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 23 Albert Road4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 148 Albert Road4 sales
- 213A Albert Road4 sales
- FLAT 10, HERON HOUSE Albert Road3 sales
- FLAT 7, KEYES COURT Albert Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 53 Albert Road3 sales
- 150A Albert Road3 sales
- SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 160 Albert Road3 sales
- 209A Albert Road3 sales
- 25C Albert Road3 sales
- 166B Albert Road3 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 124 Albert Road3 sales
- 2A Albert Road3 sales
- 2 Albert Road3 sales
- TOP FLAT, 217 Albert Road3 sales
- 164A Albert Road3 sales
- 203 Albert Road3 sales
Back to Southsea house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Albert Road, Southsea?
The median price paid in Albert Road, Southsea across every sale on the register is £85,000. 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 Albert Road, Southsea?
274 sales are on record for Albert Road, Southsea, the most recent completing on 31 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Albert Road, Southsea house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +60.0% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Albert Road, Southsea house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £145,000, set in 2012. 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 Albert Road, Southsea?
£1,511 per square metre, from the 44 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 31 Oct 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, “Albert Road, Southsea 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.