Houses in Eastleigh cost about £300,000 for a typical one, which is the sort of number that makes a Hampshire commuter town look almost reasonable. Terraces do most of the trading. Flats start lower, detached houses ask a good deal more, and roughly 380 places changed hands over the past year. This is a town priced for people who go to work in the morning, not one priced to keep them out.
The median sale over the past year sat at around £300,000, and the split by type is the usual staircase with no surprises on it. A flat goes for about £170,000, which is the entry rung for first-timers and downsizers. Terraces are the workhorse of the market at around £290,000, and there were more of those sold than anything else, so if you picture an Eastleigh house you are probably picturing a terrace. Semi-detached homes sit at about £363,000, and a detached house with its own four walls and a bit of garden runs to around £475,000. Nothing here is bought as a trophy. It is all bought to live in.
Council tax reads as cheap as the housing. The most common band in the town is C, and close to half of all dwellings fall into bands A or B, the two cheapest going. That is a genuine monthly saving over the pricier towns nearby, and it is the kind of number that matters more once you have actually moved in and the standing orders start leaving your account.
Renting follows the same unpretentious pattern. Typical private rent across the Eastleigh area runs at about £1,210 a month, though that figure covers the wider local authority rather than any one street, so treat it as the shape of the market rather than a quote on a particular front door. By size it steps up the way you would expect. A one-bed goes for around £860 a month, a two-bed about £1,110, a three-bed roughly £1,350, and anything with four bedrooms or more heads toward £1,860. The gap between renting a two-bed and buying a flat is close enough that plenty of people do the sums and stop renting.
On affordability, the maths is kinder here than in most of the county. A typical household income in the town is around £57,000, and a typical house costs about £300,000, so you are looking at roughly five times income for the average home. That is a stretch rather than a fantasy. It is the difference between saving hard for a few years and giving up entirely, which is a distinction the pricier corners of Hampshire stopped offering a while ago. For a terrace at around £290,000 the numbers are tighter still and within reach of two working salaries.
So what do houses cost in Eastleigh. About £300,000 for the average one, less for a flat, more for a detached house, and cheap council tax on top of whatever you buy. For a town this close to Southampton and Winchester with trains, motorways and green space thrown in, that is decent value rather than a warning sign. You get a proper house for a price that still leaves you a life.