House prices in SO42 (Brockenhurst)

Price per square metre data and charts to help you understand the housing market in SO42 - stats were last calculated on 04 February 2026.

Defining 'SO42'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "SO42", this is also called the postcode district. There are no official postcode district names so I've just labelled it SO42, Brockenhurst. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in SO42 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in December 2025, Greenholm, North Weirs, Brockenhurst, SO42 7QA sold for £1,475,000. Given the internal area of 266 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £1,475,000 ÷ 266 sqm = £5,545.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). You can change your prefered units from square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on SO42 and elsewhere. Just visit the My Account page and look for the m2 to ft2 toggle switch. Alternatively just multiply everything by 10, move a decimal place to go from sqm to sqft and you'll be close enough as 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for houses vs flats in SO42

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in SO42 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £6,050 to £6,500, £6,500 to £6,950, £6,950 to £7,400 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 108 sales that took place in SO42, in the last 24 months.

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You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in SO42, Brockenhurst. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £7,210 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of SO42 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for SO42

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Brockenhurst. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'SO42' as well as the 'SO' postcode area.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'SO42' is £5,760.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 108 transactions in SO42, Brockenhurst half were sold for between £4,490 and £7,210 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 108 for SO42, Brockenhurst.

    • Property price map for Brockenhurst

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'SO42' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Brockenhurst
    House price map for Brockenhurst

    Will SO42 house prices drop in 2025?

    House prices in SO42 grew 0.2% in the last year, -3.6% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in SO42 (Brockenhurst) compared with the wider postcode area 'SO'.You can extrapolate from this based on your own views.

    House price index for SO42

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'SO42' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in SO42 and is set to 100 in 2004. The chart compares trends for SO42, Brockenhurst against those of the broader postcode area 'SO'. What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire New Forest local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for SO42
    SO area SO42 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 2.9% 0.2% 3.2% 0.4%
    20 yr total 77.8% 3.1% 87.9% 8.9%
    10 yr per annum 2.9% -0.2% 2.7% -0.4%
    10 yr total 33.6% -1.9% 30.3% -4.3%
    5 yr per annum 2.5% -1.9% 1.0% -3.4%
    5 yr total 13.3% -9.2% 5.1% -15.8%
    1 yr per annum 1.1% -2.7% 0.2% -3.6%
    1 yr total 1.1% -2.7% 0.2% -3.6%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, SO area have seen a 0.2% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 3.1% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, SO42 district have seen a -3.4% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -15.8% in real terms.

    Most recent SO42 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Grigg Lane, , SO42 7Q 40 sqm £2,193 14
    Brookley Road, , SO42 7P 64 sqm £3,677 13
    New Forest Drive, , SO42 7Q 173 sqm £6,060 11
    Sway Road, , SO42 7S 201 sqm £6,891 8
    Rhinefield Close, , SO42 7S 150 sqm £7,294 7
    Grigg Lane, , SO42 7P 90 sqm £5,478 7
    The Rise, , SO42 7A 96 sqm £6,738 6
    Main Road, , SO42 7W 152 sqm £8,242 6

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'SO42' compares to the other postcode districts nearby 'SO42'.

    District Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    SO53 Chandlers Ford £3,770 sqm £4,350 sqm £4,920 sqm 820
    SO52 North Baddesley £3,840 sqm £4,380 sqm £4,900 sqm 212
    SO51 Romsey £3,930 sqm £4,510 sqm £5,160 sqm 869
    SO50 Eastleigh £3,160 sqm £3,740 sqm £4,300 sqm 1,390
    SO45 Hythe £3,250 sqm £3,770 sqm £4,380 sqm 836
    SO43 Lyndhurst £4,390 sqm £5,000 sqm £6,110 sqm 142
    SO42 Brockenhurst £4,490 sqm £5,760 sqm £7,210 sqm 108
    SO41 Milford On Sea £4,360 sqm £5,160 sqm £6,020 sqm 978
    SO40 Totton £3,480 sqm £4,080 sqm £4,690 sqm 1,160
    SO32 Bishops Waltham £3,790 sqm £4,190 sqm £4,700 sqm 834

    Raw data

    Our analysis of SO42 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    Greenholm, North Weirs, £1,475,000
    Dec-2025
    		 266 5,545
    Peter Pan, Highwood Rd, £490,000
    Nov-2025
    		 68 7,205
    5, Brittons Cottages, £575,000
    Nov-2025
    		 73 7,876

    See the entire list of all sales in SO42 here.

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