About £375,000 for the typical sale, or close to a million if it's detached. Terraces sell for around £360,000. Flats go for about a quarter of that million. Prices have barely moved in a year. The median sits between two housing markets that rarely share an estate agent.
The Land Registry recorded 19 sales in Petworth in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £375,000. The split by type is steep. Three detached houses sold at a median of about £990,000. Six semis went for around £395,000, seven terraces for around £360,000 and three flats for about £240,000. With 19 sales in total, and three in two of those categories, one unusual house can move a median by tens of thousands. Read those figures as the last twelve months' sales, not a price list. The gap between the detached figure and everything else is what happens when a town of terraces and semis also contains a handful of houses with their own paddocks and a pedigree to match.
The published house-price index for the area fell by 1% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £436,000. That's a small change, the kind of move that makes an estate agent sound either reassuring or alarmed depending on which side of the sale they're on. Flats in the same index fell by 4% over the same year. That's a sharper drop, and a buyer of a flat now has a little more room to negotiate than the seller's asking price suggests.
Council tax runs higher than the pavements suggest. The most common band is C, and about 18% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill across the district comes to about £2,470 a year. The listed frontage on the high street does not come with a listed-building discount.
Renting is priced at district level, not town level. The typical private rent across the Chichester area was about £1,320 a month as of April 2026, up about 3% on a year earlier. By size, a one-bed averages about £940 a month, a two-bed about £1,210, a three-bed about £1,490 and four or more bedrooms about £2,110. These are averages from the Office for National Statistics' rental index for the whole Chichester area, not medians of Petworth listings. No reliable studio or room figures exist for the area. The town's own rental market is too small to price itself.
Affordability depends on which house you mean. Modelled gross household income, before tax, came to about £58,000 in the financial year to March 2023. That's a dated figure, and incomes will have moved since. Against it, the terraces and semis are a stretch that plenty of couples make with a sensible deposit. The detached houses are for people whose income was never the limiting factor.
By floor area, the median price was about £4,930 per square metre, and the typical floor area behind it was 88 square metres. That covers 11 of the 19 sales, the 58% that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area. The rest weren't measured. Priced by the square metre, Petworth charges for its postcode and its park as much as for its rooms.
Petworth is a three-bedroom town. The 2021 Census puts about 46% of households in three-bedroom homes, 31% in two-bedroom homes, 13% in four or more and 10% in one. Paired with that 88-square-metre typical floor area, it's a stock of sensible family houses rather than rambling ones. The rambling ones are the detached sales.
Prices in Petworth are middling for the area: the terraces and semis are within reach, the detached houses are a different market, and neither has moved much in a year.