The middle Petersfield home sold for £465,000 in the year to June 2026. Median sold prices for every East Hampshire postcode, from Land Registry records.
Asking prices in agents’ windows are hopes. The number that counts is what homes actually change hands for, and every completed sale in England and Wales is recorded by HM Land Registry and published. This page reads those records for Petersfield and the rest of East Hampshire: the headline average, how it splits by property type, and what the middle home sold for in each postcode, from the Market Square out to the hangers.
One thing to fix before the numbers. The official house price index is published for the whole East Hampshire district, which is Petersfield plus Alton, Bordon, Whitehill, Liphook, Liss, Horndean and the villages between them. Petersfield on its own behaves quite differently, and the second half of this page shows how.
The headline figure
The average home in East Hampshire sold for £440,217 in May 2026, the most recent month published in the UK House Price Index. That is up 0.7% over the year.
Put that against the district’s own record and the market is still short of it. East Hampshire peaked at £459,543 in October 2022. Three and a half years later the average is £19,326, or 4.2%, below that peak.
Put it against the neighbours and 0.7% looks thin. Over the same twelve months Winchester rose 3.1%, Havant rose 2.8% and England rose 2.3%. East Hampshire is one of the slower markets in its own county, and the reason is partly what it sells: this is a district of large detached houses, and the detached market barely moved.
What it means for you
If you are buying, prices here are close to flat, so there is no penalty for taking a few months. The useful lever is geography: the gap between postcodes inside East Hampshire is wide enough that moving five miles buys a materially different house.
If you are selling, a 2022 price is optimistic. The average is still 4.2% below the October 2022 peak in cash terms, and further below it once inflation is allowed for. Flats are the weak spot, down 1.8% over the year.
If you are staying put, your home is worth roughly what it was last summer, and a little less than it was at the end of 2022.
Prices by property type
The average hides a wide spread. These are district averages for May 2026 from the UK House Price Index, with the annual change alongside:
- Detached houses: £705,142, up 0.6%. The category East Hampshire is built on, and the one holding the district average so far above the Hampshire figure.
- Semi-detached houses: £430,567, up 1.8%. The strongest riser in the district.
- Terraced houses: £331,515, up 1.1%.
- Flats and maisonettes: £199,897, down 1.8%. The only category falling, and the reason the recovery has not reached first-time buyers evenly.
The same data splits buyers rather than buildings. A first-time buyer in the district paid an average of £309,457 in May 2026, up 0.7%. A home mover paid £537,336, up 0.7%. The £227,879 between those two figures is the size of the step from a first flat or terrace to a family house here.
What each part of the district actually sells for
This is where the district average stops being useful.
The table below is our own analysis of 1,653 residential sales in East Hampshire that completed between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, taken from HM Land Registry Price Paid data and filtered to sales recorded in the East Hampshire district. It shows the median price, the middle sale, which is less distorted by one enormous house than an average is. The district median over that period was £420,000.
A note on the postcodes. East Hampshire’s boundary does not follow postal towns, so several outcodes below carry a post town outside the district while the properties themselves sit inside it. Only the East Hampshire sales are counted.
| Postcode area | Main places | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| GU10 | Bentley, Froyle and Binsted (Farnham post town) | £796,250 | 36 |
| SO24 | Ropley and Bishop's Sutton (Alresford post town) | £750,000 | 17 |
| GU26 | Grayshott and Headley Down (Hindhead post town) | £688,000 | 41 |
| PO9 | Rowlands Castle | £520,000 | 38 |
| GU31 | Petersfield east: Heath Road, Sussex Road, Moggs Mead, Sheet | £490,500 | 116 |
| GU33 | Liss, Greatham and Hawkley | £450,000 | 95 |
| GU32 | Petersfield centre and west, Steep, Froxfield, East Meon | £446,250 | 136 |
| GU30 | Liphook and Bramshott | £445,000 | 104 |
| GU34 | Alton, Four Marks and Medstead | £427,500 | 432 |
| PO8 | Horndean, Catherington and Clanfield (Waterlooville post town) | £387,500 | 290 |
| GU35 | Bordon, Whitehill, Lindford and Headley | £360,000 | 347 |
Petersfield on its own
Take the two Petersfield outcodes together, GU31 and GU32, and there were 252 sales in the year to June 2026 at a median of £465,000. That is £45,000 above the district median and comfortably above Alton, Bordon and Liphook.
The town then splits four ways, and the spread inside it is enormous: £728,750 between the top sector and the bottom, across a town you can walk end to end.
| Sector | Roughly | Median | Sales | Detached median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GU32 1 | The hangers: Steep, Stroud, Froxfield, Stoner Hill | £1,047,500 | 22 | £1,250,000 |
| GU32 2 | North Petersfield: Tilmore Road, Bell Hill, Woodbury Avenue, North Road | £506,500 | 48 | £838,560 |
| GU31 4 | East Petersfield: Heath Road, Sussex Road, Grenehurst Way, Moggs Mead, Durford Road | £495,000 | 107 | £705,000 |
| GU32 3 | Town centre: High Street, Swan Street, Borough Road, Chapel Street, Rushes Road | £318,750 | 66 | £722,500 |
The hangers are a different market altogether. Five of the 22 GU32 1 sales were of houses with a name and no street number, and those five had a median of £2,250,000. That is the country-house belt above the town, not Petersfield.
Why the town centre looks cheapest, and why that is misleading
GU32 3 has the lowest median in Petersfield and one of the lowest in the district, and both facts come from the same cause: it is the only genuinely urban postcode sector in East Hampshire outside Alton and Bordon. Flats were 26 of its 66 sales, against one in 22 up in the hangers. A median mixes flats and mansions together, so a town centre with real flats will always sit below a parish of detached houses.
Compare like with like and the picture inverts. A detached house in GU32 3 had a median of £722,500, more than the equivalent in east Petersfield (£705,000). The cheap number is a mix effect, not a discount.
The same trap applies across the two outcodes:
| Area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GU32 (centre, west and the hangers) | £880,000 | £495,000 | £441,000 | £194,975 |
| GU31 (east Petersfield and Sheet) | £690,000 | £386,000 | £403,000 | £275,000 |
| East Hampshire district | £635,000 | £401,937 | £325,000 | £199,950 |
GU31 has the town’s most expensive flats (£275,000, against £194,975 in GU32) and its cheaper semis. GU32 has the expensive houses and the cheap flats. That is the trade every buyer here actually faces: pay for a newer flat out towards the Heath, or buy an older, smaller one in the middle of town.
On individual streets with at least four recorded sales in the year, the highest medians in Petersfield were College Street (£682,500), Grenehurst Way (£560,000) and Rushes Road (£465,000). At the other end, Chapel Street came in at £200,000 and Hylton Road at £210,000, both of them flat-heavy town-centre streets.
New-build sales across the whole district had a median of £482,500, above the district median, which is unusual and reflects how little of East Hampshire’s recent supply has been apartments.
How East Hampshire compares
| Area | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Waverley borough | £567,214 | +2.1% |
| Winchester district | £476,639 | +3.1% |
| East Hampshire district | £440,217 | +0.7% |
| Chichester district | £436,312 | -1.0% |
| South East region | £381,311 | +1.2% |
| Hampshire county | £362,998 | +0.8% |
| Havant borough | £315,078 | +2.8% |
| England | £292,095 | +2.3% |
The average home here costs about £77,000 more than the Hampshire average and just over £148,000 more than the England average. The number worth remembering, though, is the one to the south: Havant, which is Waterlooville, Emsworth and Leigh Park, averages £315,078. That is £125,139 less than East Hampshire, and the boundary between them runs across the top of Horndean. Few borders in Hampshire are as expensive to cross.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Petersfield?
The official index covers the whole East Hampshire district, where the average home sold for £440,217 in May 2026. On completed sales in the year to June 2026, the median price across the two Petersfield postcodes, GU31 and GU32, was £465,000, ranging from £318,750 in the town centre sector to £1,047,500 up in the hangers.
Are Petersfield house prices going up or down?
Slightly up. East Hampshire prices were up 0.7% in the year to May 2026, against 3.1% in Winchester and 2.3% across England. The district average is still 4.2% below its October 2022 peak of £459,543.
How much is a detached house in Petersfield?
The district average for a detached house was £705,142 in May 2026. On completed sales, the median detached house in GU32 was £880,000 and in GU31 £690,000, but that ranged from £705,000 in east Petersfield to £1,250,000 in the hangers above Steep and Froxfield.
Which part of Petersfield is most expensive?
GU32 1, the sector covering Steep, Stroud, Froxfield and Stoner Hill, at a median of £1,047,500 across 22 sales. Within the built-up town, GU32 2 north of the centre leads at £506,500.
Is Petersfield cheaper than Alton or Liphook?
No. Petersfield’s GU31 and GU32 came out at a combined £465,000, against £445,000 for Liphook (GU30) and £427,500 for Alton (GU34). Bordon and Whitehill (GU35) are the district’s cheapest at £360,000.
Where can I check what a specific house sold for?
Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search a street or address for free on the HM Land Registry Price Paid service.
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Sources
- UK House Price Index, East Hampshire (ONS and HM Land Registry) for the district average, property-type and buyer-type figures and the annual changes.
- HM Land Registry UKHPI open data for the May 2026 record, and the matching Hampshire, Winchester, Havant, Chichester, Waverley, South East and England benchmarks. The October 2022 peak comes from the same series.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid data for the postcode, sector, street and property-type medians, computed from 1,653 residential sales recorded in the East Hampshire district completing between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026.
Land Registry figures are provisional and revised as more sales are registered. Confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision.
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