Horndean is Petersfield for people without the station budget. The median house sold for about £360,000 over the last year. Detached homes typically clear £460,000. Flats start around £173,000. Same East Hampshire postcode, none of the market-town premium.
About 450 homes changed hands in the last twelve months, which is steady village turnover rather than a churning market. The median sale sat at £360,000 across all types. Detached homes pulled the top end at around £460,000, with roughly 185 of them trading. Semi-detached came in around £349,000 across roughly 134 transactions, which is the workhorse of the local market. Terraces averaged around £286,000 over 88 sales. Flats sat around £173,000 across 39. The spread between the cheapest and dearest is narrower than the south coast usually offers, because the stock is similar and most of it went up in the same post-war thirty years.
Council tax tracks the housing stock honestly. Band D is the modal band, which lines up with the post-war family-house dominance. Only about one in five homes falls into the cheapest A or B bands, so anyone hunting a small-tax flat or bungalow has to look at the older end of the market. Most owners here pay the band D bill and a few hundred pounds either side of it. Very little at the heavy end. Very little below band B.
Renting across the East Hampshire area typically runs at about £1,260 a month, which is the local-authority figure rather than Horndean's own. One-bedroom places typically come in around £900, two-beds around £1,175, three-beds around £1,475, and four-beds-or-more around £1,975. The bedroom premium is the usual one. Each extra bedroom adds a chunk to the monthly rent until you hit the four-bed bracket, where the gap widens because four-bed stock is scarcer and the families with the bigger budget bid each other up.
The typical household in Horndean brings in about £61,000 a year. A £360,000 median against that income works out roughly six times earnings, which puts the village in the standard southern-England stretch zone. Not unreachable for a dual-income household with a decent deposit. Not somewhere a single first-time buyer walks into either. The detached end at £460,000 is firmly move-from-a-flat or inherit-something territory, which is what the average detached buyer here has done. The realistic middle of the market is the schools-adjacent semi at £349,000, and that's where most of the 450 sales actually landed.
Horndean costs above the national average and below the rest of East Hampshire. The buyers who already moved here did the maths. The ones still scrolling Petersfield listings are about to.