About £450,000, which is semi money wearing detached ambitions. Detached houses clear £600,000. Terraces sit nearer £325,000. Prices have barely twitched in a year. Nothing here is cheap. It's merely calm about it.
The Land Registry's last twelve months, to May 2026, recorded 89 sales at a median of £450,000. That figure is an average of two different markets pretending to be one. The 38 detached sales went for a median of about £612,500, the 35 semis about £405,000, and the 14 terraced sales about £325,000. So the headline median describes a house hardly anyone actually buys. The buyers are either stretching for the detached end or settling happily for a semi, and the median sits in the gap between them.
Movement has been close to nil. The published house price index for the area put the average at about £401,000 in May 2026, up 0.2% on a year earlier. Call that flat, because it is. Flats did slightly worse, down about 2% over the same twelve months, though flats are a sideshow in a place built around driveways. Over five years the index is up about 17%, so the rise already happened. Anyone waiting for a correction is waiting for something the index hasn't seen.
Council tax follows the housing. The most common band is D, and only about 10% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs about £2,505 a year, band A about £1,670, and the handful of band H homes about £5,011. The low bill is a rare find here, and the estate agent's listing will mention it if the house has one.
Renting means working with a district-wide figure. The typical private rent across the West Berkshire area was about £1,280 a month in April 2026, an average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not Burghfield Common's own and not a median of listings. It was up 3% on the year. By size, one-bed homes averaged about £897 a month, two-beds about £1,166, three-beds about £1,447 and four-beds or bigger about £2,111. Studio and room rents aren't published for the area, so there's no figure for the cheapest end. Given how few small homes exist here, that end is mostly theoretical anyway.
Local incomes help, up to a point. The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income, before tax, at about £71,700 a year for the financial year to March 2023. That's a comfortable income by most standards, and it describes households three years ago, not today's buyers. Set against a £450,000 median, and £612,500 for a detached house, it still makes the purchase a stretch for a single earner. Two decent salaries turn it into an arrangement. One salary turns it into a conversation with the bank that goes on longer than either side wanted.
By the square metre, homes sold for a median of about £4,580, based on a typical floor area of about 93 square metres. That covers about 82% of the last year's sales, the ones that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, not every sale. The money buys ordinary rooms of ordinary size, and nobody's paying a premium for original cornicing because there's barely any original cornicing to pay for.
The stock is built for families who've already had them. At the 2021 census about 40% of homes had four or more bedrooms and 35% had three, against 18% with two and 7% with one. Downsizers and first-time buyers are hunting in the smallest quarter of the market, and competing with each other for it.
Houses in Burghfield Common cost a middling amount: not a bargain, not a scandal, and priced for couples with two incomes and a need for four bedrooms. Anyone who arrives with one salary and a wish for somewhere small will find the market was built for someone else.