Hart's average is £479,978, still Hampshire's dearest, but its lead over Winchester has shrunk from £25,848 to £8,842 since January. Now £10,156 off the peak.
The average home in Hart sold for £479,978 in June 2026. That is still more than in any other Hampshire district, and it is still £186,716 above the England average. But it is £10,156 below the district’s January peak, and Hart’s lead over Winchester has collapsed from £25,848 in January to £8,842.
The figures come from the UK House Price Index, published by HM Land Registry on 20 August. They are built from completed sales rather than asking prices, and they cover Hart district: Fleet and Church Crookham, Hook, Odiham and North Warnborough, Hartley Wintney, Yateley, Blackwater, Eversley and the villages between them.
One thing to hold on to before any of the numbers below. The UKHPI average is a mean, not a median. A handful of large sales pull it upwards, which is part of why a district of Hart’s size can move several thousand pounds in a month.
The headline figures
| Measure | June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Average price, all property types | £479,978 |
| Change over 12 months | +2.3% |
| Change over the month | −0.7% |
| First-time buyer average | £358,772 |
| Former owner-occupier average | £579,500 |
| Index (2023 = 100) | 101.8 |
The growth rate has halved since January
The level is the eye-catching number, but the more useful one is the direction. Hart’s annual change has narrowed in every single month of 2026:
- January: +5.4%
- February: +4.1%
- March: +3.4%
- April: +2.8%
- May: +2.5%
- June: +2.3%
That is not a crash. Prices in Hart are still higher than a year ago, and 62 of the 295 English local authority districts recorded an outright annual fall in June while Hart did not. It is a slowdown, and it has been steady enough for six months to be worth naming.
The monthly figures tell the same story from the other end. Hart’s average has fallen in four of the last five months, from £490,134 in January to £479,978 in June. Hart was one of 113 English districts to fall on the month.
Winchester is closing the gap
Hart has been the dearest district in Hampshire for most of the past year, and it still is. The margin, though, is now small enough that a couple of months could end it.
| Month | Hart | Winchester | Hart's lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £490,134 | £464,286 | £25,848 |
| March 2026 | £481,145 | £467,534 | £13,611 |
| May 2026 | £483,133 | £478,059 | £5,074 |
| June 2026 | £479,978 | £471,136 | £8,842 |
Winchester’s annual change in June was +4.6%, double Hart’s. The two districts last swapped places in April 2025, when Winchester was £2,630 ahead.
Where Hart sits in Hampshire, and beyond it
Hart is the most expensive of the eleven Hampshire districts, and 41st most expensive of the 295 English local authority districts.
| District | Average price | Change over 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| Hart | £479,978 | +2.3% |
| Winchester | £471,136 | +4.6% |
| East Hampshire | £446,392 | +0.4% |
| New Forest | £380,310 | +1.2% |
| Test Valley | £372,348 | −0.2% |
| Basingstoke and Deane | £368,739 | −1.3% |
| Rushmoor | £328,963 | +2.4% |
| Fareham | £328,364 | +0.8% |
| Havant | £320,643 | +3.9% |
| Eastleigh | £308,476 | +1.7% |
| Gosport | £235,188 | +1.4% |
Hampshire as a whole averaged £364,281 in June, up 1.4%. The South East averaged £380,380, up just 0.3%, and England £293,262, up 1.8%.
The districts Hart actually borders are a mixed picture. Rushmoor, which is Farnborough and Aldershot and sits directly against Fleet’s southern edge, averaged £328,963, £151,015 less than Hart. Basingstoke and Deane, on the other side of Hook, averaged £368,739 and fell 1.3% over the year. Over the Berkshire line at Eversley, Wokingham averaged £498,941, more than Hart, but it fell 3.1%. Surrey Heath, which Blackwater and Yateley run into, averaged £461,396 and was the fastest riser of the lot at +6.1%.
What kind of home, and what it costs
Hart is a district of detached houses, and that is where the slowdown is concentrated.
| Property type | Hart | Change over 12 months | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £787,929 | +1.3% | £474,647 |
| Semi-detached | £480,635 | +3.8% | £290,904 |
| Terraced | £383,259 | +3.1% | £246,170 |
| Flat or maisonette | £240,294 | +1.2% | £219,154 |
The pattern is worth a second look. The two ends of the market, detached and flats, rose least. The two in the middle, semis and terraces, rose most.
One comparison puts the district in perspective. A semi-detached house in Hart averages £480,635. The average detached house in England costs £474,647. A semi here is £5,988 dearer than a detached home nationally.
For a first-time buyer the Hart average was £358,772, up 2.7% over the year. That is more than England pays on average for a semi, a terrace or a flat.
A correction to a figure we published
In May we reported Hart’s average price as £486,882, with an annual change of +3.3%, on our Fleet house prices page. That was the figure HM Land Registry had published at the time.
The June release revises May down to £483,133, an annual change of +2.5%. The average price for May is therefore £3,749 lower than first published, and the annual change is 0.8 percentage points smaller.
This is normal rather than an error. The Land Registry keeps adding completed sales to a month after it first publishes it, so the newest month in any release is provisional. Smaller districts move more, because a smaller number of sales carries more weight. We mention it because we quoted the earlier number, and because it is a good reason to treat the very latest month in this piece, June, as provisional too.
The sales figures are not there yet
The June release carries no sales volume for May or June. Volumes lag prices by roughly two months, because the count is only complete once every sale has been registered. The most recent month with a published figure for Hart is April 2026, at 76 sales, against 99 in March and 81 in January.
Those are thin numbers by the standards of the last few years, and thin months are exactly when a mean average jumps around. It is another reason to read the six-month direction rather than any single month.
What it means for you
If you are selling in Hart, the district’s price advantage over the rest of Hampshire is intact, but the momentum behind it is not what it was in January. Semis and terraces are the types holding up best; detached homes, which are most of the housing stock here, rose 1.3% over the year.
If you are buying, the arithmetic on the borders is stark. The same money buys a great deal more in Rushmoor, £151,015 less for an average home, and Farnborough is a few minutes from Fleet’s southern edge. Basingstoke and Deane, just past Hook, is £111,239 cheaper and falling.
If you are a first-time buyer, £358,772 is the Hart average, and it is the number to test against a mortgage offer rather than the £479,978 headline. The flat market is the softest part of the district at £240,294.
If you are weighing up the commute against the price, the two are worth costing together. Fleet is 42 minutes from Waterloo and an annual season ticket is £5,192; our Fleet train times to London page sets out the current times and fares.
Next month’s UKHPI release covers July 2026 and is due in September. We will update this page’s figures then, and say so if June is revised.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Hart district, June 2026, HM Land Registry, for the average price, the annual and monthly change, the index, the property-type splits and the first-time buyer average.
- UK House Price Index full data file, June 2026, HM Land Registry, for the Hampshire, South East and England comparisons, the monthly series back to January 2026, the sales volumes, the Winchester series and the ranking of all 295 English local authority districts.
- UK House Price Index full data file, May 2026, HM Land Registry, for the previously published May figure of £486,882 and the size of the revision.
UK House Price Index data is published by HM Land Registry under the Open Government Licence.
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