Drift Road, Waterlooville house prices are built from 131 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 5 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 12 years from 2012 to 2024 the median moved +88.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +32.8%.
Median price paid
£320,000
Change in cash, 2012–2024
+88.4%
Change in real terms
+32.8%
HM Land Registry131 salesLatest sale 5 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Drift Road, Waterlooville prices moved
The chart tracks the median Drift Road, Waterlooville house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 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 | 2 | £143,225 | £318,027 |
| 2000s | 6 | £259,000 | £471,822 |
| 2010s | 2 | £329,000 | £463,890 |
| 2020s | 2 | £600,000 | £613,043 |
The highest yearly median on record for Drift Road, Waterlooville is £620,000 in 2024; the lowest is £143,225 in 1999. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £159,498 to £620,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £330,723, so the real change over the whole record is +97.3% — about +2.65% 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: +88.4% in cash against +32.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 109 | 5 Dec 2025 | Detached | £775,000 | £791,848 |
| 138 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £530,000 | £541,522 |
| 22 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £615,000 | £647,127 |
| 142 | 12 Dec 2024 | Detached | £795,000 | £836,530 |
| 30 | 11 Oct 2024 | Detached | £620,000 | £652,388 |
| 113 | 18 Jul 2024 | Detached | £680,000 | £715,522 |
| 70a | 7 Feb 2024 | Detached | £515,000 | £541,903 |
| 31 | 25 Aug 2023 | Detached | £450,000 | £486,207 |
| 44 | 21 Jun 2023 | Detached | £370,000 | £399,770 |
| 127 | 14 Feb 2023 | Detached | £807,500 | £872,471 |
| 102 | 19 Dec 2022 | Detached | £580,000 | £671,980 |
| 98 | 26 Aug 2022 | Detached | £665,000 | £770,460 |
| 30 | 26 Jul 2022 | Detached | £630,000 | £729,910 |
| 123 | 8 Jul 2022 | Detached | £750,000 | £868,940 |
| 131 | 24 Jun 2022 | Detached | £462,000 | £535,267 |
| 7 | 13 May 2022 | Detached | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| 14 | 22 Apr 2022 | Detached | £360,000 | £417,091 |
| 130 | 13 Apr 2021 | Detached | £780,000 | £985,484 |
| 113 | 22 Mar 2021 | Detached | £618,000 | £780,806 |
| 120 | 22 Feb 2021 | Detached | £685,000 | £865,457 |
| 94 | 16 Dec 2020 | Detached | £625,000 | £809,229 |
| 58a | 13 Dec 2019 | Detached | £550,000 | £719,388 |
| 72 | 17 Oct 2019 | Detached | £410,000 | £536,271 |
| 119 | 28 Aug 2019 | Detached | £500,000 | £653,989 |
| 98 | 17 Apr 2019 | Detached | £375,000 | £490,492 |
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 Drift Road, Waterlooville values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 109 Drift Road | £320,000 (2007) | £775,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.0% |
| 22 Drift Road | £175,000 (2000) | £615,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 142 Drift Road | £312,000 (2010) | £795,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +3.8% |
| 30 Drift Road | £630,000 (2022) | £620,000 (2024) | -0.8% | -5.5% |
| 113 Drift Road | £82,000 (1995) | £680,000 (2024) | +7.6% | +4.8% |
| 70A Drift Road | £250,000 (2003) | £515,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 31 Drift Road | £125,000 (2000) | £450,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 127 Drift Road | £365,000 (2017) | £807,500 (2023) | +14.1% | +9.8% |
| 102 Drift Road | £174,500 (2001) | £580,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.3% |
| 98 Drift Road | £375,000 (2019) | £665,000 (2022) | +21.0% | +16.2% |
| 123 Drift Road | £357,650 (2015) | £750,000 (2022) | +11.2% | +8.1% |
| 130 Drift Road | £187,000 (2001) | £780,000 (2021) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Drift Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 120 | 91.6% | £329,000 | £70,000 – £807,500 |
| Semi-detached | 11 | 8.4% | £203,000 | £50,000 – £390,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Drift Road, Waterlooville
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 131 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 131 | 100.0% | £320,000 |
A further 5 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 Drift Road, 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 £320,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.74% 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 PO8, 51 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 17 violent, 5 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.3 times quieter.
Against the 125,744 residents the 2021 census counted in East Hampshire, that is 0.41 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 Drift Road, 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.
12 state and independent schools have a PO8 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horndean Technology College | Secondary | Community school | 1,288 |
| The Cowplain School | Secondary | Academy converter | 993 |
| Horndean Church of England Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 453 |
| Padnell Junior School | Primary | Community school | 360 |
| Clanfield Junior School | Primary | Community school | 291 |
| Horndean Infant School | Primary | Community school | 266 |
| Padnell Infant School | Primary | Community school | 266 |
| Woodcroft Primary | Primary | Community school | 203 |
| Petersgate Infant School | Primary | Community school | 195 |
| Hart Plain Junior School | Primary | Community school | 179 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Rowlands Castle Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Bedhampton Rail Station | Rail | 6.7 km |
| Havant Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
| Warblington Rail Station | Rail | 7.4 km |
Section 09
How Drift Road, Waterlooville compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Drift Road, Waterlooville sits above that national figure — +103.2%.
Within Waterlooville the street ranks 175 of 1004 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £195,000 (+64.1%).
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 £50,000 to £807,500. 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.
Drift Road, 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
- London Road£182,299 median
- Milton Road£180,000 median
- Lovedean Lane£270,000 median
- Cherry Tree Avenue£176,000 median
- Valley Park Drive£155,500 median
- Hart Plain Avenue£209,000 median
- Hazleton Way£219,250 median
- Catherington Lane£233,000 median
- Greenfield Crescent£228,995 median
- Havant Road£150,000 median
- Crombie Close£68,000 median
- Green Lane£287,000 median
- Silvester Road£231,000 median
- James Copse Road£165,750 median
- Sutton Road£193,225 median
- Durley Avenue£219,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 94 Drift Road5 sales
- 33 Drift Road4 sales
- 22 Drift Road3 sales
- 142 Drift Road3 sales
- 113 Drift Road3 sales
- 102 Drift Road3 sales
- 58A Drift Road3 sales
- 42A Drift Road3 sales
- 121 Drift Road3 sales
- 118 Drift Road3 sales
- 12 Drift Road3 sales
- 132 Drift Road3 sales
- 56 Drift Road3 sales
- 20 Drift Road3 sales
- 24 Drift Road3 sales
- 109 Drift Road2 sales
- 30 Drift Road2 sales
- 70A Drift Road2 sales
- 31 Drift Road2 sales
- 127 Drift Road2 sales
- 98 Drift Road2 sales
- 123 Drift Road2 sales
- 130 Drift Road2 sales
- 120 Drift Road2 sales
Back to Waterlooville house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Drift Road, Waterlooville?
The median price paid in Drift Road, Waterlooville across every sale on the register is £320,000. 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 Drift Road, Waterlooville?
131 sales are on record for Drift Road, Waterlooville, the most recent completing on 5 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Drift Road, Waterlooville house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +88.4% between 2012 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +32.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Drift Road, Waterlooville house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £620,000, 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 Drift Road, Waterlooville?
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 5 Dec 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, “Drift Road, 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.