A bit under four hundred grand for a typical house. Detached buyers pay around half a million. Semis go for the high three hundreds. Terraces and flats sit much lower. Not London prices, but not Bognor prices either, and the bungalow that comes with the price tag is doing most of the heavy lifting.
Across the last twelve months about eighty-eight homes changed hands in Aldwick, with the typical sale landing at roughly £390,000. The split by type tells the local story. A detached property goes for about half a million. A semi-detached for around £385,000. A terrace for about £325,000. A flat for around £220,000. More than half of last year's sales were detached, which is why the headline median sits where it does. The cheaper stock is there, but the volume is up at the top of the range, and the volume is what sets the price.
Council tax mostly sits in band D and above. Only about one home in fifteen is in band A or B, which on this stretch of coast is unusually skewed to the higher bands. Aldwick is structurally a band-D-and-above village. The detached homes and bungalows that make up most of the stock were built to a size that locks them into the bigger bills. You can find a band-C flat. You will struggle to find anything cheaper.
On rentals, the typical private rent across the Arun area is about £1,220 a month, which is the local-authority figure rather than the village's own. By bedroom size, a one-bed runs at about £840, a two-bed at about £1,130, a three-bed at about £1,380, and a four-bed or larger at just under two thousand. Aldwick itself rents thinner than the rest of Arun because nearly nine in ten households here own. The handful of rentals that come up tend to be priced at the upper end of those local-authority averages, because what gets rented in Aldwick is mostly the bungalow whose owner has finally let go of it.
Median household income in Aldwick is about £49,000 a year. The typical house at around £390,000 works out at roughly eight times that income. For a working couple buying their first place on income alone, the multiple is the problem. For a couple selling a house in the south-east and trading down to a south-coast bungalow, the multiple is irrelevant the moment they exchange. Most of Aldwick is the second category, which is why the price holds even when interest rates do not.
Aldwick costs what Aldwick costs because the people already here have no interest in selling it cheaper to the people coming next. The price is fair if you are buying the village. It is steep if you are only buying the postcode.