Heston is half a million pounds of interwar semi. A typical sale is about £530,000. Semis go for well over £600,000. Flats come in under £300,000. Outer London prices, with no discount for being on the outer edge of it.
The Land Registry recorded 85 sales in the year to early May 2026, at a typical price of £530,000. Semis made up nearly half of them, 41 sales at a typical £632,000, and they set the price of the whole place. Terraces went for about £468,000 across 18 sales and flats for £296,000 across 21. Five detached houses sold at a typical £615,000, below the semis. Five sales is too few to read anything into, so the bargain detached house that figure seems to promise probably isn't out there.
The official house price index for the area fell 2.4% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £501,000. Flats did worse, down 4.7%. A small dip like this suits a buyer, though it barely dents the asking price. The flat figure is the one to bring up if a seller treats last year's comparable as this year's floor.
Band D is the most common council-tax band, and Hounslow charges £2,186 a year for it. Only 11% of homes sit in bands A or B, so cheap council tax is hard to find here. Most of the semis land in the middle bands, and the bill comes with them.
Hounslow's private rents average about £1,920 a month as of April 2026, a mean across the whole borough from the Office for National Statistics' rental index, up 2.7% on a year earlier. By size, the borough averages about £1,560 for a one-bed, £1,920 for a two-bed, £2,200 for a three-bed and £3,040 for four bedrooms or more. A three-bed in Heston will be the interwar semi most of the time, so the borough figure is a fair starting point, though Heston's own streets could come in above or below it.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income across Heston at about £65,700 for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is gross, before tax and the rest, and it is three years old. Against a £530,000 typical sale, buying here takes a large mortgage or a lot of help from somewhere. The flats are where a single typical income starts to look like enough.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, 87% of the year's total, the median price was about £5,600 a square metre. The typical home behind that figure had about 92 square metres of floor space. That is a family house with three bedrooms and no spare room for a home office.
The 2021 census counted 39% of Heston's homes with three bedrooms, 24% with four or more, 25% with two and 12% with one. The three-bed is the house the builders of the 1930s put up on the old farmland, and it is still the house most buyers here end up searching for. The four-bed share mostly comes from extensions, which is where a lot of Heston's semis went once their owners ran out of room.
Heston costs what outer London costs, and for an interwar semi at this distance from the centre that is a poor deal. The flats are the only part of the market that looks cheap, and they are also the part that fell furthest.