Downs Close, Waterlooville house prices are built from 119 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £97,000. Across the 11 years from 2004 to 2015 the median moved +6.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.8%.
Median price paid
£97,000
Change in cash, 2004–2015
+6.8%
Change in real terms
-18.8%
Median per m²
£1,865
HM Land Registry119 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Downs Close, Waterlooville prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downs Close, Waterlooville house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2015. 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 | £42,250 | £93,815 |
| 2000s | 5 | £83,150 | £151,475 |
| 2010s | 1 | £126,000 | £177,660 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downs Close, Waterlooville is £126,000 in 2015; the lowest is £39,950 in 1995. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £39,950 to £126,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,708, so the real change over the whole record is +100.3% — about +3.53% 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: +6.8% in cash against -18.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 2 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £137,000 | £137,000 |
| 26 | 16 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 12 | 30 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £162,500 | £166,033 |
| 35 | 29 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 16 | 24 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 21 | 6 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £161,500 | £174,494 |
| 31 | 30 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £236,000 | £273,426 |
| 44 | 27 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 19 | 12 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 50 | 23 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £184,000 | £232,473 |
| 7 | 21 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £149,000 | £188,253 |
| 31 | 22 May 2020 | Terraced | £164,000 | £212,342 |
| 35 | 30 Mar 2020 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 12 | 13 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £150,500 | £194,862 |
| 8 | 25 Oct 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 36 | 1 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £202,737 |
| 42 | 28 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £79,962 |
| 12 | 29 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £190,541 |
| 25 | 28 Sep 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £176,931 |
| 48 | 25 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £167,500 | £233,837 |
| 17 | 4 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £170,000 | £237,327 |
| 36 | 25 Sep 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £179,070 |
| 31 | 10 Sep 2015 | Terraced | £170,000 | £239,700 |
| 18 | 12 Aug 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 15 | 29 Jun 2015 | Terraced | £148,000 | £208,680 |
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 Downs Close, Waterlooville values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Downs Close | £64,500 (2001) | £137,000 (2026) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| 26 Downs Close | £53,500 (1999) | £145,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 12 Downs Close | £52,500 (2000) | £162,500 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 35 Downs Close | £190,000 (2020) | £255,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +1.2% |
| 16 Downs Close | £190,000 (2014) | £170,000 (2025) | -1.0% | -4.0% |
| 21 Downs Close | £38,000 (1997) | £161,500 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 31 Downs Close | £47,000 (1996) | £236,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 44 Downs Close | £45,249 (1995) | £165,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 19 Downs Close | £33,500 (1995) | £150,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.7% |
| 50 Downs Close | £41,500 (1999) | £184,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 7 Downs Close | £32,500 (1995) | £149,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.8% |
| 36 Downs Close | £63,500 (2000) | £155,000 (2019) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downs Close, Waterlooville 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 | 76 | 63.9% | £83,500 | £32,500 – £190,000 |
| Semi-detached | 22 | 18.5% | £79,000 | £39,950 – £255,000 |
| Terraced | 21 | 17.6% | £124,000 | £47,000 – £236,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downs Close, Waterlooville
78 of the sales on record are leasehold and 41 freehold — 65.5% 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 £88,750 and the median freehold sale £108,500 — a gap of +22.3%. 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 | 78 | 65.5% | £88,750 |
| Freehold | 41 | 34.5% | £108,500 |
A further 4 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 Downs Close, Waterlooville
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Hampshire, 49.5% of 58,068 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 738 | 1.3% |
| B | 9,681 | 16.7% |
| C | 18,323 | 31.6% |
| D | 19,219 | 33.1% |
| E | 7,336 | 12.6% |
| F | 2,183 | 3.8% |
| G | 588 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Hampshire at £1,263 a month as of Jun 2026 — £902 for a one-bedroom home and £1,484 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £97,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.62% 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 PO7, 189 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 82 violent, 2 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 125,744 residents the 2021 census counted in East Hampshire, that is 1.50 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 Downs Close, Waterlooville
The 2021 census counted 125,744 residents in East Hampshire across 52,719 households. 74.4% of those households own their home and 25.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a PO7 postcode: 13 primary, 3 secondary, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oaklands Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,419 |
| Crookhorn College | Secondary | Foundation school | 943 |
| Purbrook Park School | Secondary | Foundation school | 921 |
| Berewood Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 414 |
| Queen's Inclosure Primary School | Primary | Community school | 414 |
| Purbrook Junior School | Primary | Community school | 380 |
| Denmead Junior School | Primary | Community school | 316 |
| Morelands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 315 |
| Purbrook Infant School | Primary | Community school | 270 |
| Springwood Junior School | Primary | Community school | 219 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bedhampton Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Cosham Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Havant Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Rowlands Castle Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
Section 09
How Downs Close, Waterlooville compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downs Close, Waterlooville sits below that national figure — -38.4%.
Within Waterlooville the street ranks 970 of 1004 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £195,000 (-50.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,865 per square metre, across 37 of the 119 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 £32,500 to £255,000. 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.
Downs Close, Waterlooville sits in East Hampshire, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Hampshire at 11.6 times median local earnings of £36,379 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
- Hambledon Road£240,000 median
- Hulbert Road£99,000 median
- Stakes Road£167,250 median
- Park Avenue£230,000 median
- Holly Drive£71,375 median
- Silverdale Drive£200,000 median
- The Dale£250,000 median
- Sunnymead Drive£207,250 median
- Stakes Hill Road£234,500 median
- Purbrook Gardens£153,000 median
- Amethyst Grove£117,750 median
- Spruce Avenue£97,123 median
- Home Mead£95,500 median
- Starina Gardens£123,500 median
- Jubilee Road£167,500 median
- Shaftesbury Avenue£155,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 31 Downs Close6 sales
- 12 Downs Close5 sales
- 50 Downs Close5 sales
- 28 Downs Close4 sales
- 21 Downs Close4 sales
- 36 Downs Close4 sales
- 25 Downs Close4 sales
- 34 Downs Close4 sales
- 14 Downs Close4 sales
- 38 Downs Close4 sales
- 6 Downs Close4 sales
- 26 Downs Close3 sales
- 44 Downs Close3 sales
- 19 Downs Close3 sales
- 17 Downs Close3 sales
- 18 Downs Close3 sales
- 30 Downs Close3 sales
- 29 Downs Close3 sales
- 27 Downs Close3 sales
- 11 Downs Close3 sales
- 20 Downs Close3 sales
- 10 Downs Close3 sales
- 35 Downs Close2 sales
- 16 Downs Close2 sales
Back to Waterlooville house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downs Close, Waterlooville?
The median price paid in Downs Close, Waterlooville across every sale on the register is £97,000. 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 Downs Close, Waterlooville?
119 sales are on record for Downs Close, Waterlooville, the most recent completing on 2 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downs Close, Waterlooville house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +6.8% between 2004 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downs Close, Waterlooville house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £126,000, set in 2015. 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 Downs Close, Waterlooville?
£1,865 per square metre, from the 37 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 2 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, “Downs Close, Waterlooville 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.