Houses in New Alresford cost about half a million pounds, which is the entry fee for a Georgian market town that knows exactly what it is worth. The typical home sold for around £505,000 over the past year. A detached one runs to roughly £610,000. A flat, at about £240,000, is the only thing on offer under a quarter of a million. Half a million is the number, and the town has long since made its peace with it.
The spread by type is the usual country-town ladder, just starting higher up the rungs. Detached houses set the ceiling at around £610,000. A semi-detached sits closer to £470,000, a terrace about £427,500, and a flat down at roughly £240,000, which is where anyone hoping to buy in without a house-sized budget ends up looking. None of this comes off a huge market either. Around seventy homes changed hands across the whole town in the past year, so this is a place where property moves slowly and holds its price, not one where you turn up and take your pick.
Council tax follows the same pattern of a town without much cheap stock. Most homes land in band C, and only about one in six sit in the lower band A or band B bracket, so the low-bill end of the market barely exists. Buy here and you are buying into the middle of the council tax range as a matter of course, not the bottom of it.
Renting is a minority pursuit in a town where most people own, but if you go that way the typical private rent across the Winchester area runs at about £1,500 a month. That is a district figure covering the whole of Winchester rather than the town alone, so treat it as the shape of the market rather than a quote for a specific street. By size, a one-bed goes for roughly £1,010 a month, a two-bed around £1,310, a three-bed about £1,610, and anything with four bedrooms or more heads north of £2,240. The ladder rents the same way it sells, which is to say it asks a lot before it hands over the keys.
Set the price against local wages and the reason the town skews older and settled becomes obvious. The typical household here brings in a little over £63,000 a year, comfortably above the national middle. Even so, a £505,000 home is roughly eight times that income, which is a serious stretch on paper for anyone buying on a single salary or a first mortgage. The people making the numbers work tend to be the ones arriving with equity from somewhere else, not the ones starting from scratch. That is the quiet mechanism behind who lives here, and it is written straight into the price list.
So what do houses cost in New Alresford. They cost about half a million pounds for a typical home, and a good deal more if you want the detached version with the Georgian frontage. It is not cheap, it was never going to be cheap, and the value on offer is fair rather than a bargain. You are paying a full price for a proper market town, and the town is not about to apologise for it.