About £595,000 for a typical sale, and that middle figure hides a wide range. Detached houses go for nearly a million. Terraces go for around £335,000. Twenty homes changed hands all year. Fernhurst doesn't have a housing market so much as a short queue with a high entry fee.
In the Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026, the median sale price was about £595,000, across 20 sales. Eleven were detached houses, with a median of about £995,000. Four were semis at around £595,000, and four were terraces at around £335,000. With counts that small, one grand house on a lane under Blackdown can move the whole picture. The detached figure is the one to take seriously, because detached houses made up more than half the sales. Anyone hoping to find a bargain terrace should know there were four of them in a whole year, and each one probably had a small crowd at the viewing.
The published house price index for the wider area moved 1% down in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £436,000. Flats fell further, by 4%. A 1% change is small. Sellers will call it a correction and buyers will call it a rounding error, and the buyers are closer to right. Flats are a small part of what Fernhurst sells, so that 4% dip says more about the district than about the village.
Council tax tells a humbler story than the sale prices. Band C is the most common band, and about 16% of homes sit in bands A or B. A Band D bill runs to about £2,470 a year. The valuation list and the Land Registry seem to be describing two different villages, and at least one of them is flattering you.
Nobody publishes rents for Fernhurst on its own. The typical private rent across the Chichester area was about £1,320 a month as of April 2026, up about 3% on the year. That is an average for the whole district, taken from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than from advertised listings. By size, a one-bed averages about £940 a month, a two-bed about £1,210, a three-bed about £1,490 and a four-bed or larger about £2,110. Those figures include Chichester flats, so a detached house with a view of the hills is unlikely to rent at the district average.
Local median household income was about £73,000 before tax, modelled for the surrounding area in the financial year to March 2023. That is a comfortable income, but it does not come close to a £595,000 purchase, and it is nowhere near the detached median. In Fernhurst the sums usually work only with equity from a previous sale or help from family. The monthly salary covers the running costs, not the purchase.
For the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 70% of the total, the median price was about £4,950 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 109 square metres. You are paying for the hills at a per-metre rate, and the space itself is roomy but nothing unusual.
At the 2021 census, about 9% of homes had one bedroom, 26% had two, 38% had three and 27% had four or more. Three bedrooms is the standard Fernhurst home, and more than a quarter of homes are larger than that. Small homes are scarce, and that scarcity is part of why the entry price is so high.
Houses in Fernhurst are expensive, and value is its weakest point. People buy here for the surroundings, and they pay a premium for them.