Houses in Andover cost about £296,000, which for a Hampshire town with its own station is almost apologetic. Flats go for around £170,000. Terraces sit near £268,000. Detached is where the ambition lives. This is a market that rewards wanting a house more than wanting an address.
The Land Registry's last twelve months, to May 2026, put the typical sale at about £296,000 across 548 completions. Flats came in around £170,000 on 109 sales, terraces about £268,000 on 187, semis roughly £325,000 on 125, and detached houses near £455,000 on 127. Four clear price points, and no mystery about which one the agent puts at the top of the listing.
The published house price index has the average for this area at about £370,000 as of May 2026, up half a percent across the twelve months, which is a change so small it barely counts as news. Flats specifically were down about 2% over the same year, at around £172,000. Two measures, both describing a market that held still.
Most homes sit in council tax band C, with about 32% in bands A or B. A band D bill in this area runs about £2,300 a year, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you currently pay, since it is the one that arrives every month regardless of what the house was worth on the day you bought it.
Renting is measured across the wider Test Valley area rather than the town on its own, and the typical private rent there is about £1,200 a month as of April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics price index rather than a trawl of adverts. One-bedroom places average around £865, two-beds about £1,115, three-beds near £1,370, and four or more bedrooms around £1,960.
Household income before tax was modelled at about £60,000 for this area in the financial year to March 2023, which is not a current figure but is the one that frames the whole question. Against gross income at that level, a terrace at about £268,000 is a stretch rather than a fantasy, and a semi at about £325,000 is a conversation a lender will actually have with you rather than one they end politely.
Of the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, roughly 89% of them and 486 sales in total, the median comes out at about £3,700 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 84 square metres. That second number is the honest one. It buys a normal house, not a generous one, and anyone arriving with plans for a snug, a study and a boot room should read it twice.
The bedroom mix from Census 2021 explains what the searches return: about 43% of homes have three bedrooms, 25% have two, 20% have four or more, and 12% have one. Andover is a three-bedroom town, and the four-bed market is where the competition gets personal.
Price is where Andover quietly wins. There is a rung at every level of the ladder, the council tax sits low in the range, and nobody here is charging you extra for the privilege of saying the name out loud.