A typical Horsham house costs about £396,000, and the market has spent the year barely moving. Flats get you in for under a quarter of a million. Detached houses want north of £700,000. Flat prices slipped a little while everything else inched up. Steady, south-east money, with no bargain basement and no bubble.
The Land Registry recorded 620 sales in the twelve months to May 2026, with a typical price of about £396,000. The split by type is wide. Detached houses went for around £715,000 across 123 sales, semis around £463,000 across 162, terraces about £375,000 across 157, and flats about £237,000 across 178. Flats were the busiest category, which says plenty about who is buying their way into Horsham. The semi is the town's default family home, and its price is the one most buyers will be staring at.
The house-price index for the area rose 1.3% in the twelve months to May 2026, putting the average at about £441,000. That is a small rise, and anyone telling you Horsham is booming is selling something. Flats went the other way, down 1.7% over the same year to an average of about £217,000. The index covers a wider area than the sales figures above, so the two averages don't match, and neither is wrong.
Council tax lands in the middle. Band D is the most common band, and only about 17% of homes sit in the cheapest bands, A and B. A band D bill here runs to about £2,441 a year. The cheap-band house is a rare find in Horsham, and the listing that calls one "a hidden bargain" has usually found a flat above a shop.
Renting is priced for the south-east. The typical private rent across the Horsham area is about £1,450 a month as of April 2026, up about 4% on a year earlier. That figure is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index and covers the whole local authority, not the town alone, so it blends town-centre flats with village cottages. By size, a one-bedroom home averages about £1,006 a month, two bedrooms about £1,329, three bedrooms about £1,669, and four or more about £2,393. Horsham will rent you a family house, provided you have a family-house income.
Local incomes help. Median gross household income, before tax, was about £68,800 in the financial year to March 2023, modelled for the area and now a few years old. Set against a typical price of about £396,000, that makes buying a stretch on one salary and manageable on two. First-time buyers on one income tend to end up in a flat, and the flat market's soft year is the one small mercy for them.
Price per square metre gives a cleaner comparison. Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 76% of the total, the median was about £5,274 per square metre, with a typical floor area of about 82 square metres behind it. That is a modest home at a serious price, and it is the figure to hold up against any asking price that seems to have forgotten how big the rooms are.
The homes themselves lean toward family sizes. At the 2021 census, about 15% of households had one bedroom, 26% had two, 35% had three and 25% had four or more. The three-bedroom house is the Horsham standard, and it is the size estate agents have the fewest excuses to overprice.
Horsham is not cheap, but for the south-east it is steady and fairly priced, and that makes cost one of its stronger suits. You pay proper money here, but at least nobody is charging you a premium for a boom that isn't happening.