Property prices in Southampton

£200,350 is the twelve month average for completed sales in the Southampton area, and it is the anchor every valuation on this site works from.

Across the last twelve months completed sales are 1.2% lower than a year earlier. Over five years they are 5.2% higher than five years earlier, which is closer to the period most landlords actually hold a property for.

Southampton combines a working port, a large hospital and two universities, which keeps demand spread across the year. Waterside and city centre flats let to a different tenant from the northern suburbs.

Each property type in Southampton carries its own price level, listed below with the number of completed sales behind each figure. The number of sales behind each figure is shown beside it, so you can see how firm it is before you lean on it.

Rent for a year set against what a home is worth is the number to hold, and your report calculates it for your address.

Gross yield is not what you keep. Out of it come management, safety certificates, insurance, repairs and any empty weeks between tenants. The report on your own address sets the rent it can achieve against what the home is worth, so you are looking at your property rather than an area.

If you already own here and want the running of it taken off your hands, the management page for Southampton sets out what a high street agent charges on the area's real average rent against what Caso charges for the same work.

The table below is the price series our data supplier holds for the area, one row a year, with the movement across each year beside it. It is the same series the valuation on your own report is anchored against, which is why a report can say what your home is worth today from what it sold for years ago.

A trend is a description of the past, not a promise. What it is genuinely useful for is a sanity check: if the price you are being asked to pay assumes a rise the last five years never delivered, you are buying someone else's optimism.

District matters twice over for a landlord: it sets what you pay and it sets what you can charge. The districts below are the Southampton postcode areas with enough homes advertised to give a fair rental average, which is the side of the sum most buyers guess at.

Put the two halves together before you buy: the rent a district actually achieves against the price a district actually commands. That is the yield, and it is the only number that tells you whether a purchase works.