About £400,000 for a typical house, which is a lot for a village where the main event is a walk in a field. Detached places run higher, terraces lower. Barely two dozen changed hands last year. This is a settled, slow market where the prices are firm and the choice is thin.
The headline figure is a median sale price of roughly £400,000 over the past year, drawn from only about twenty-six sales. That's a small sample for a whole village, and it tells you something on its own: homes here don't come up often, and when they do they hold their price rather than get haggled down. The split by type follows the usual pecking order. A detached house sits at around £550,000, a semi-detached at roughly £360,000, and the handful of terraced homes that sold came in near £295,000. There is no cheap corner of this market. The terrace is the entry point, and the entry point is not modest.
Council tax is where buyers get a small rebate on the shock. The most common band in the village is B, and close to half the homes fall into band A or B, the two cheapest. For a place with £400,000 medians that looks like a mismatch, and it is the one genuinely friendly number in the whole picture. You pay a premium to buy the house and then get billed as though you hadn't.
Renting is the harder path, mostly because Alveston barely does it. As a guide, typical private rent across the South Gloucestershire area runs at about £1,450 a month, and that is the wider area figure rather than the village's own, because the village leans heavily toward owners rather than tenants. Across that area, a one-bedroom place sits at around £990 a month, a two-bedroom at roughly £1,260, a three-bedroom at about £1,530, and anything with four or more bedrooms climbs past £2,200. In Alveston itself the practical problem isn't the price so much as the supply. You wait for a house to appear rather than pick one off a list.
Set the buying against local wages and the strain shows. The typical household here brings in around £65,000 a year, which is a comfortable income by most measures. A £400,000 house is still more than six times that, and the terraced entry point near £295,000 is not far behind on the multiple. That is the definition of a stretch. These are prices that assume either two solid salaries, a chunk of equity carried in from a previous home, or both. A first-time buyer on a single income is looking at the village through the window, not the front door.
So what do houses cost in Alveston? More than the place quite justifies. You get green space, quiet and a settled village, and you pay a value-poor premium for the postcode, which is why this scores at the bottom of the range for money. Good to live in, expensive to buy into, and the two facts are not going to change places any time soon.