Denmead does not do cheap. The typical sale ran at about £387,000 across the last twelve months. Detached houses clear over half a million. Even flats start near £175,000. The Forest of Bere does not come at Waterlooville prices.
The eighty-five transactions over the last year split unevenly by property type. About fourteen terraces sold for around £310,000 on average. Around twenty-two semis went for about £350,000. Almost forty detached houses cleared at about £521,000, the largest single group of sales. About eleven flats traded around £175,000. The gap between a semi and a detached is wide, and the gap between a detached and a flat is wider still. The village is dominated by houses, and the houses are priced accordingly.
Council tax follows the housing stock. Band C is the modal band, and only about one in seven dwellings sits in bands A or B. The rest spread across D, E and F, with a smaller tail running into G and H. The annual letter from Winchester is noticeable rather than negligible.
Renting is a different conversation, because the rental market here is shallow. The typical private rent across the Winchester area runs to about £1,500 a month, which is the local-authority figure rather than Denmead's own. One-beds go for around £1,000, two-beds around £1,300, three-beds around £1,600, and four-bed-plus around £2,250. About two in ten Denmead households rent, split roughly evenly between private and social. The rental market does not shape the prices here. The owners do.
On the affordability arithmetic, the £387,000 median against a local median household income of about £69,000 lands at roughly five and a half times income. That is a stretch for a single household earning the median, and workable for a couple where both are at or above it. The arithmetic funnels buyers toward the semi at £350,000 or the terrace at £310,000 rather than the detached at half a million. The detached houses are not bought by first-time buyers. They are bought by people moving sideways from a similar-value house elsewhere with the equity to make it work.
Roughly £387,000 to get in, half a million if you want detached, £175,000 if you settle for a flat. That sits above average for the area and stretches the household earning median to a clear five and a half times income.