About £350,000 gets you into Yapton. Roughly a hundred houses changed hands over the last twelve months. Prices are down about 3.4% on the year. The market is soft, not sunk. This is what a village on the road to Bognor looks like when the coast money isn't paying attention.
The typical sale price over the last year was around £350,000, and the split by type is sharper than the headline suggests. Detached houses ran to about £442,500. Semis came in around £345,000. Terraces cleared at about £257,000. The handful of flats that sold went for around £192,500. Roughly a hundred transactions in twelve months is a working market rather than a thin one, so the numbers carry weight rather than being one outlier and a rumour.
Council tax lands mostly in band C, which is the modal band across the village. About a quarter of the stock sits in bands A or B, the cheapest end of the ladder. That is the kind of ratio most Arun villages would like to be able to claim and can't. For a buyer running the annual cost of ownership on a spreadsheet, band C is a real recurring benefit rather than a marketing line.
Renting is a different market and the honest figure is not Yapton-specific. The typical private rent across the Arun area is about £1,220 a month. A one-bed comes in around £840, a two-bed at about £1,130, a three-bed at about £1,380, and anything with four bedrooms or more clears roughly £1,970. That is the local-authority average, not the village's own, and Yapton being an inland village rather than a Bognor postcode probably shades those numbers slightly cheaper on the ground. Treat the figure as the ballpark, not the offer.
The typical household here earns about £54,700 a year. Set that against the £350,000 median sale price and the ratio is roughly six-and-a-half times income. On paper that is a stretch. In practice it is within reach for two working adults on average local salaries with a decent deposit, which is more or less who the village is for. Yapton prices out the London-money buyers who priced out of Arundel, and it settles at a level a household on West Sussex wages can actually reach without inheriting a flat first.
For what you get, houses in Yapton are decent value: a village-scale stock at a village-scale price, in a soft market that is not moving up. Take that as a description of today's offer, not a signal to hurry.