A typical Midhurst home sells for about £380,000, which is the one price in town that hardly anybody actually pays. Flats change hands in the low two hundreds. Detached houses clear six hundred thousand. Prices have barely moved in a year. Midhurst doesn't really have a house price. It has a bottom end and a top end, and the average sits in the gap between them.
The Land Registry recorded 82 sales in the year to May 2026, with a median of about £380,000. Detached houses fetched around £625,000 across 23 sales. Semis went for around £403,000 across 14, terraces for around £340,000 across 29, and flats for around £221,000 across 16. Those are small numbers, and one farmhouse with a paddock can drag a category about. The shape is what matters, though: the terrace near the Market Square and the detached house out towards the Rother are separate markets, and they happen to share a postcode.
The house-price index for the area was down 1% in the twelve months to May 2026, which is small enough to shrug off. Flats in the same index fell 4% over the same period. That's the part to pay attention to if you're buying at the bottom of the ladder, and the part estate agents are least likely to put in the window.
Band D is the most common council-tax band here, and only about 18% of homes fall in bands A and B. A band D bill comes to about £2,470 a year. That's the number to compare with whatever you pay now, before you tell yourself the move will save you money.
For renters, the typical private rent across the Chichester area was about £1,320 a month as of April 2026. That's an average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index for the whole district, not a figure for Midhurst's own streets. Broken down by size, it comes to about £940 a month for a one-bed, £1,210 for a two-bed, £1,490 for a three-bed and £2,110 for four bedrooms or more. There's no reliable figure for studios or single rooms, so beware of any listing that claims to know the going rate.
Median gross household income, before tax, was about £52,600 in the financial year to March 2023, on the Office for National Statistics' modelled figures. Put that next to a typical sale of £380,000 and a household on a local income can't comfortably buy the typical home without real savings or equity from a previous sale. The flats are within reach. The detached houses are for people who sold something bigger somewhere else and are calling it downsizing.
Across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 70% of them, the median price was about £4,300 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is 88 square metres, a solid family-sized home rather than a mansion. It's a better guide than the headline median, because it tells you whether a particular house is expensive or simply big.
At the 2021 Census, about 37% of Midhurst homes had three bedrooms, about 32% had two, about 17% had four or more and about 14% had one. Three-bed homes are the bulk of the market. If you're after something with four or more bedrooms, expect a small field and a lot of competition from people with London equity.
Midhurst sits slightly on the right side of affordable: dearer than a local salary would like, cheaper than its looks would suggest. The bargains are in the flats, and so is the risk.