Gosport remains the cheap end of the Solent. About £240,000 buys the typical house. £145,000 buys a flat. £395,000 buys a detached with a garage. For coast-facing housing in the South East, that is unusually honest pricing.
Across the last year about 820 transactions went through, which is reasonable depth for a town of this size. The typical sale ran at around £240,000. Flats moved at a median of about £145,000 across roughly 190 sales, terraces at £235,000 across about 380, semis at £290,000 across about 175, and detached houses at £395,000 across about 80. The terrace is the workhorse here, both in volume and in mid-market position. The price index for Gosport overall is up less than one percent over the year. Flats are down a little. The market is closer to soft than racing, so the buyer is not in a hurry. The seller might be.
Council tax sits modally in Band B, with more than half of all dwellings in Band A or Band B combined. About one in five dwellings sits in Band A, the cheapest band there is. The Band A annual bill comes in at about £1,560. The Band D bill is about £2,340. Most of the town pays somewhere in the middle, and the number on the front door changes long before the number on the council tax bill does.
The typical private rent across the Gosport area runs at about £1,150 a month, which is the figure for the wider local authority and not the centre of town. One-bedroom places rent at around £810, two-bedrooms at about £1,030, three-bedrooms at around £1,260, and anything with four bedrooms or more at around £1,710. The headline figure has climbed about 7% over the last year, which lines up with the wider south-coast pattern.
Median household income in Gosport runs at about £54,500 a year. A £240,000 house at conventional lending multiples works out at a mortgage that does not stretch the average household to a breaking point, which is increasingly rare for waterfront-adjacent housing in the South East. The flat-to-detached ladder is short here too: the step from a £145,000 flat to a £395,000 detached is short by South East standards, which in a place with this income profile is climbable, in the sense that ladders are climbable rather than aspirational.
For what the buyer gets, Gosport prices well below what coastal southern England usually charges. The market is soft rather than rising, which suits the patient buyer more than the seller chasing last year's number. Honest pricing on a peninsula the rest of the south coast rounds up.