About £490,000 buys the typical home in the Pulborough area, and the detached houses are what push it there. Detached houses sell for nearly £700,000. A flat goes for under £200,000, if one ever comes up. The most common council tax band is G. This is a detached-house market with a handful of cheaper homes on the side, and budgeting as if it were anything else will end in disappointment.
The Land Registry recorded 303 sales in the Pulborough area in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of £487,500. Detached houses made up 168 of those sales, at a median of £697,500. Semis sold for a median of £415,000 across 59 sales and terraces for about £335,000 across 46. Flats managed 30 sales at a median of £198,000. The median is really set by the detached houses. Anyone who reads £487,500 and pictures a tidy three-bed semi will find the semis are cheaper than that, and the houses they had in mind cost more.
Prices are hardly moving. The official house price index for the area rose 1.3% in the twelve months to May 2026, which is barely enough to cover the solicitor's fees. Flats went the other way, down 1.7% over the same year. That is a small fall, not a crash, but a first-time buyer might want to hear it before signing up for fifteen years.
Council tax lands at the top end too. Band G is the most common band across the area, and only about 10% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home pays about £2,440 a year, which is the figure to compare with your current bill. If you're coming from a band C terrace somewhere cheaper, the first council tax letter will come as a shock.
Renting costs about £1,450 a month, the typical private rent across the Horsham area as of April 2026. That is an average for the whole district taken from the Office for National Statistics index, not a figure for Pulborough itself. By size, it comes to about £1,010 a month for one bedroom, £1,330 for two, £1,670 for three and about £2,390 for four or more. Tenants looking in the villages should expect a short list of homes, few of them small.
Median gross household income across the area was about £64,600 in the financial year to March 2023, before tax. That is a comfortable income by most standards, and a typical house here will still stretch it. Plenty of people can afford a semi or a terrace. For a detached house, most buyers will need equity from their last home or help from family.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 55% of them, the median price was about £4,570 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is 97 square metres. So the money buys proper family-sized space, the kind that comes with a lawn to mow.
The 2021 census bedroom counts show the same thing. About 37% of homes have three bedrooms and 35% have four or more. Two-bedroom homes make up about 22% and one-bedroom homes about 6%. Downsizers are well served. Anyone looking for a first home will be viewing the same few properties as everyone else on the same budget.
For what you get, Pulborough is fairly priced, and the price is high. A three-bed buyer on a middling budget can make it work, but only by taking what the market leaves, and it leaves mostly detached houses.