That is the middle of 1,038 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.2 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
1,038 homes sold in three years: 252 detached houses, 252 semi-detached houses, 329 terraced houses and 205 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£600K
median sale · 252 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£480K–£710K
Last 12 months
£603K72 sold
New build
£710K
Semi-detached houses£395K
median sale · 252 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£343K–£450K
Last 12 months
£395K71 sold
New build
£480K
Terraced houses£325K
median sale · 329 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£287K–£395K
Last 12 months
£320K101 sold
Flats and maisonettes£220K
median sale · 205 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£315K
Last 12 months
£214K52 sold
New build
£340K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses24%
Semi-detached houses24%
Terraced houses32%
Flats and maisonettes20%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Romsey’s homes sold for between £290K and £485K
One sale in ten was under £215K and one in ten over £655K. 12% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £375,000, sits in the £300–400K band
1,038 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £59,950 in 1995 to £370,000 in the last 12 months (£325,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
296 sales in the last 12 months, against 527 in 2021, the busiest year, and 158 in 2008. Sales fell by 44% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 49% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Romsey costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Romsey, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£113K
£212K
£300K
£348K
£425K
£500K
£603K
Semi-detached houses
£66K
£123K
£205K
£218K
£275K
£343K
£395K
Terraced houses
£54K
£95K
£169K
£185K
£255K
£297K
£320K
Flats and maisonettes
£43K
£73K
£134K
£149K
£195K
£203K
£214K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 1% of sales in the last 12 months, after 36% in 2015
1,685 new homes have been sold in Romsey since 1995; the share peaked at 36% in 2015.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £480,000
against £370,000 for a home sold on, 30% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
21% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2% sold leasehold in Romsey. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Botley Road is Romsey’s busiest street, with 30 sales in three years
78 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 24 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Botley Road
SO51
30
£303,500
Mostly flats
2
Abbotswood Common Road
SO51
28
£335,000
Mostly flats · new builds
3
Middlebridge Street
SO51
27
£270,000
Mixed
4
Viney Avenue
SO51
21
£305,000
Mixed
5
Winchester Road
SO51
20
£432,500
Mixed
6
Sequoia Lane
SO51
19
£520,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
7
St Blaize Road
SO51
17
£280,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Doris Bunting Road
SO51
16
£412,750
Mixed
9
Northlands Road
SO51
15
£408,000
Mixed
10
Duttons Road
SO51
15
£325,000
Mostly flats
11
Westering
SO51
14
£365,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Cutforth Way
SO51
14
£345,000
Mixed
13
Cobnut Drive
SO51
13
£530,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
14
Bridge Road
SO51
13
£240,000
Mostly flats
15
Mill Lane
SO51
12
£346,500
Mixed
Dearest streets
Oxlease Meadows: £990,000
Romsey median£375K
Oxlease Meadows£990K
Winchester Hill£791K
Horseshoe Drive£698K
Osprey Place£672K
Foster Way£593K
Cheapest streets
Sutherland Close: £122,000
Romsey median£375K
Sutherland Close£122K
Tavistock Close£125K
Great Well Drive£130K
Alma Road£152K
Freemantle Road£210K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Hampshire
Romsey is the 43rd most expensive of 77 towns in Hampshire
Romsey is in the middle of Hampshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Romsey
What is the average house price in Romsey?
The median home in Romsey sold for £375,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,038 standard sales (£370,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £600,000, semi-detached houses £395,000, terraced houses £325,000 and flats and maisonettes £220,000.
Are house prices going up in Romsey?
The median was £375,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£377,000), and £370,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Romsey each year?
296 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 420 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Romsey?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Oxlease Meadows (SO51, £990,000), Winchester Hill (SO51, £791,250) and Horseshoe Drive (SO51, £697,500).
How much does a new build cost in Romsey?
New homes sold for a median £480,000 over three years, against £370,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 6.2% of sales.
Is Romsey expensive for Hampshire?
Romsey is the 42nd most expensive of 77 towns of 2,500 or more in Hampshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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