About £366,000 buys the typical Farnborough home: sensible money for sensible bricks. Flats go for a little over two hundred grand. Detached houses clear half a million. Prices barely moved in a year. Nobody is getting rich off a Farnborough semi, and for anyone buying one to live in, that suits them fine.
The Land Registry recorded 578 sales in the year to the end of May 2026, at a median of about £366,000. That figure is an average across four quite different markets. Flats sold for around £212,000 across 144 sales. Terraced houses went for about £345,000 across 160. Semis, the busiest category with 171 sales, fetched around £420,000, and the 103 detached houses changed hands at about £570,000. Estate agents will call the semi a starter family home. At that price, the family had better have started saving early.
The published house price index for the area put the average at about £331,000 in May 2026, up about 2% on a year earlier. Flats went the other way, down 0.4% over the same twelve months. Both moves are small. Over five years the index rose about 16%, so this is a market that has already had its growth spurt and is now holding steady. Anyone telling you prices are about to take off is selling something, probably a flat.
Band C is the most common council tax band, and about 24% of homes sit in the two cheapest bands, A and B. The band D bill runs to about £2,320 a year, which is the figure to hold against whatever you pay now. Cheaper bands exist, but they mostly come attached to the flats.
Renting across the Rushmoor area costs about £1,380 a month, the typical private rent for the whole borough as of April 2026. It is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index rather than a median of advertised listings, and it describes the borough, not Farnborough alone. By size, a one-bed averages about £970 a month, a two-bed about £1,260, a three-bed about £1,520 and a four-bed or larger about £2,170. There are no reliable figures for studios or single rooms, so treat any advert quoting one as the landlord's opening bid.
Household incomes help explain why the prices hold. Modelled gross household income, before tax, averaged around £66,000 across the area in the financial year to March 2023. That is a household number, and a pre-tax one, so it flatters the monthly budget more than the mortgage adviser will. A terrace or a flat is within reach of a two-earner household on that kind of money. A detached house needs either a bigger salary or a very patient parent.
Price per square metre gives a truer comparison than the headline median. Across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which covers about 83% of them, the median came to around £4,600 a square metre, and the typical home behind that figure measured about 83 square metres. That's a decent-sized house for the south-east rather than the shoebox the London overspill tends to get. The median price is buying floor space, not a postcode.
The bedroom mix, from the 2021 census, explains the market's shape. About 43% of homes have three bedrooms, 26% have two, 20% have four or more and only 11% have one. The three-bed is what Farnborough makes and what it sells. First-time buyers hunting for a one-bed are fishing in the smallest pond in town.
Houses in Farnborough are fairly priced, not cheap, and cheaper than the space would cost closer to London. The value lies in square metres per pound, not in any promise of what the next five years will add.