About £535,000, and that's only the middle of the market. Detached houses go for nearer £800,000. Flats are the way in, at under a quarter of a million. Four-bedroom homes are the most common size. Hindhead doesn't do starter homes. It does the ones people finish in.
The Land Registry recorded 75 sales in the twelve months to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £535,000. That figure blends two very different purchases. The 22 flats sold for about £225,000 and the 8 terraces for about £407,500. The 15 semis went for about £595,000. Detached houses were the most traded type, with 30 sales at about £790,000. A median built from a £225,000 flat and a £790,000 detached house describes a home few buyers here are looking at. Check the median for the type you want before you set a budget.
Prices are moving slowly. The official house price index for the area put the average at about £567,000 in May 2026, up about 2% on a year earlier. Flats were flat, up about 0.1% over the same twelve months. That's barely a rounding error, and anyone buying a flat here to cash in soon should keep a straight face when the agent calls it an investment.
Council tax is sized to match. The most common band in Hindhead is G, and only 13% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home in Waverley pays about £2,605 a year, and band G sits well above that. The valuation list tells you who the village was built for, and it wasn't anyone watching the pennies.
Renting is priced across the whole borough, not the village. The typical private rent across the Waverley area was about £1,440 a month as of April 2026. That's a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, it comes to about £1,040 for a one-bed, £1,340 for a two-bed, £1,610 for a three-bed and £2,340 for four bedrooms or more. There are no studio or room rents available for this area. A Hindhead house on the ridge is unlikely to let at the Waverley typical, and the landlord will say so before you do.
Incomes are high, and prices are higher. Modelled gross household income, before tax, averaged about £70,000 in the financial year to March 2023. Against a median sale price of £535,000, that's a stretch for anyone without equity from a previous home. The flats are within reach of a single decent salary. The detached houses usually aren't, whatever the mortgage broker's calculator says.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, the median price was about £4,850 per square metre, across a typical floor area of about 102 square metres. That covers about 31% of the sales, so treat it as a guide rather than a price list. What it tells you is that space up here is sold at Surrey rates, and most of the room is in the garden.
The homes themselves are big. At the 2021 Census, 39% of households had four or more bedrooms, 27% had three and 21% had two. Only 13% had one bedroom. If you search the portals for a two-bed, you're choosing from about a fifth of the village and competing with every downsizer on the ridge.
Hindhead is expensive for what the money buys and gives almost nothing away on price. The flats are the one exception, and even they have stopped going up.