A Shoreham house costs about £420,000, which is what buyers pay when they have made peace with the fact that Brighton was never going to happen. The median sale in the last twelve months landed exactly there. Flats clear at around £250,000. Detached houses push past six hundred thousand. Coastal address, priced for the people who actually live on it.
Under three hundred properties changed hands in the last twelve months, which is a live market, not a frozen one. A terrace sat close to the district median at around £412,000. Semis went for closer to £455,000. Flats cleared at about £250,000. Detached houses wanted six hundred thousand and up, which is the price of a driveway and enough garden to have a proper argument about the fence. That is a market with a spread, not a spike, which means a buyer with £250,000 to spend and one with £600,000 can both find something honest here without pretending to be looking at the same kind of place.
Council tax mostly lands in band C, which is the workhorse band for post-war coastal towns of this size. Over a fifth of homes sit in the two cheapest bands, A and B, which quietly makes Shoreham cheaper to keep than most of what sits either side of it on the same coast. It is a bill that will not surprise a buyer coming from anywhere south of the Thames, and one that will feel like a bargain to anyone crossing over from anywhere north of it.
Renting sits alongside the buying picture, and the numbers are in the same neighbourhood. Typical private rent across the Adur district, which Shoreham is part of, runs to about £1,380 a month. A one-bed comes in close to a thousand. A two-bed at around thirteen hundred. A three-bed nearer sixteen hundred. Four-beds move past two thousand. That is a district-wide figure, so plain Shoreham is not guaranteed to sit exactly on it, but it is the honest ballpark for anyone budgeting a rent cheque before working out whether the deposit sums for the mortgage version add up.
The typical Shoreham household earns close to fifty-seven thousand a year. A £420,000 median sale price is about seven and a half times that, which is stretching but well short of what Brighton buyers a train stop east have signed up for. A working couple with a deposit and a plan can still make the maths work here. A single earner without a deposit will find this a coastal town, not a coastal home, and the gap between those two things is what a decent share of Shoreham's rental stock quietly exists to bridge.
Ordinary for the south coast, which is the honest answer. Neither cheap enough to be suspicious nor dear enough to make the local paper. The market that Brighton's overflow settled for once the sums stopped working forty minutes east.