Four Marks sells big houses at big-house prices, with a typical sale around £560,000. Detached homes cost more than that. Nearly half the homes have four bedrooms or more. Anything cheap sells in small numbers. What you're paying for is floor space, not a fashionable postcode.
In the Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026, 75 homes sold at a median of about £560,000. Detached houses dominated the list and set the pace: 51 of them sold at a median of around £660,000. Semis went for about £445,000 across 14 sales, and terraces for about £326,000 across 8. That's the whole range. The terrace is the cheapest way in, and it appeared in the sales record only eight times all year.
The official house price index for the wider area put the average at about £440,000 in May 2026, up about 1% on a year earlier. That's roughly flat, whatever an estate agent's window card might say. Flats in the same index fell about 2% over the same twelve months. Four Marks has so few flats that the fall is mostly someone else's concern.
Council tax follows the houses. The most common band here is G, the second most expensive, and only about 7% of homes sit in the two cheapest bands, A and B. A Band D bill runs to about £2,340 a year. A detached house on the ridge usually comes with a band letter near the end of the alphabet.
Renters get a district figure, not a village one. A typical private rent across the East Hampshire area is about £1,260 a month as of April 2026, up about 2% on the year. That's an average from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, the district average is about £900 for one bedroom, £1,180 for two, £1,480 for three and £1,970 for four or more. Studio and room rents aren't published for the area.
Local incomes are healthy but don't close the gap. The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income, before tax, at about £76,600 in the financial year to March 2023. Against a typical sale price of £560,000, that's a stretch on salary alone. The buyers who manage it usually arrive with equity from a previous sale, and the mortgage adviser's spreadsheet is kinder to them than to anyone buying their first home.
Measured by the square metre, the median across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area is about £4,430. That covers 80% of the year's sales, not all of them. The typical home behind that figure has about 114 square metres of floor space. The price per metre isn't what hurts here. It's how many metres come with every house.
The bedroom count explains why. At the 2021 Census, about 47% of homes had four or more bedrooms, 31% had three, 17% had two and just 5% had one. Four Marks was built for families who needed a spare room for the other spare room, and it's priced accordingly.
Houses in Four Marks are middling value: fair money per metre, but a lot of metres, with not much at the smaller end for a buyer who doesn't need all that space. If your budget stops at a semi, the choice is short.