About £330,000, and the type of house decides the rest. Detached houses go for well over that. Flats go for well under it. Three-bedroom homes are the norm, and nobody is putting in offers for studios. Middle-of-the-road money for a very middle-of-the-road housing market, which is a compliment in property terms.
The Land Registry recorded 99 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of £330,000. The split by type is wide enough to make the headline a rough guide at best. Detached houses sold for a median of £450,000 across 33 sales, semi-detached houses for £313,000 across 35, terraces for about £264,000 across 21, and flats for about £197,000 across only 10. The semis are the market's backbone and set the price most buyers end up paying. With 10 flat sales in a year, anyone quoting a "going rate" for a flat is working from a very short list.
Direction of travel is flat, in the literal sense. The house-price index for the area showed a change of 0% over the twelve months to May 2026, with an average price of about £308,000, and about 7% growth over five years. Flats alone were down about 3% over the same twelve months. None of this is a crash or a boom. It is a market holding its breath, and the flat owners are holding it slightly longer.
Council tax clusters in band C, and about 28% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to about £2,340 a year, the figure most people can hold against what they pay now. The cheap bands exist, but mostly attached to the homes that were cheap to begin with.
Renting is priced at borough level. The typical private rent across the Eastleigh area was about £1,210 a month as of April 2026, up about 4% on a year earlier. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of Bursledon listings. By size, one-bedroom homes averaged about £860 a month, two-bedroom about £1,110, three-bedroom about £1,350, and four or more bedrooms about £1,860. No figure exists for studios or rooms, which in a village of family houses is less a data gap than a description.
Modelled gross household income, before tax, averaged about £65,000 across the area in the financial year to March 2023. Against a median sale price of £330,000, that puts a typical house within reach of a two-income household and a stretch for a single buyer. The terraces and flats are where one salary stands a chance. The detached market is for people who have already sold something.
Across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 79% of them, the median price was about £3,960 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 80 square metres. That is a normal family house at a normal price per metre, and nothing in it suggests anyone is paying extra for a view of the water they could have walked to for free.
The Census 2021 bedroom mix explains who the market is built for. About 39% of homes have three bedrooms, 28% have two, 25% have four or more, and 8% have one. One-bedroom homes are rare enough that first-time buyers on their own are competing for scraps, while families have the full menu.
Bursledon's prices sit a notch better than average for what they buy: fair money for sensible family houses, with little room for a bargain and little risk of a shock. Two salaries make it comfortable; one makes it a terrace.