Market Square, Alton house prices are built from 74 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £97,500. Across the 11 years from 2003 to 2014 the median moved +48.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +12.8%.
Median price paid
£97,500
Change in cash, 2003–2014
+48.6%
Change in real terms
+12.8%
Median per m²
£1,849
HM Land Registry74 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Market Square, Alton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Market Square, Alton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2014. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £87,500 | £159,399 |
| 2010s | 2 | £70,000 | £98,700 |
The highest yearly median on record for Market Square, Alton is £120,000 in 2014; the lowest is £70,000 in 2013. Across the full 14-year record the cash median has moved from £105,000 to £120,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £205,911, so the real change over the whole record is -16.4% — about -1.37% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +48.6% in cash against +12.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 9 Ladyplace Court | 17 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £92,000 |
| Flat 25 Ladyplace Court | 31 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| Flat 23 Ladyplace Court | 10 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £118,000 | £127,494 |
| Flat 31 Ladyplace Court | 16 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| Flat 11 Ladyplace Court | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £107,000 | £123,969 |
| Flat 29 Ladyplace Court | 27 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £159,950 | £185,316 |
| Flat 37 Ladyplace Court | 5 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £157,930 |
| Flat 2 Ladyplace Court | 12 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £96,000 | £124,298 |
| Flat 34 Ladyplace Court | 24 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| Flat 25 Ladyplace Court | 27 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £206,569 |
| Flat 6 Ladyplace Court | 2 Feb 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £210,956 |
| Flat 3 Ladyplace Court | 26 Sep 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £202,426 |
| Flat 1 Ladyplace Court | 20 Jul 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £87,000 | £121,455 |
| Flat 5 Ladyplace Court | 28 Apr 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £119,950 | £167,455 |
| Flat 4 Ladyplace Court | 1 Feb 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £223,366 |
| Flat 11 Ladyplace Court | 8 May 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £145,230 |
| Flat 3 Ladyplace Court | 17 Apr 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £169,200 |
| Flat 16 Ladyplace Court | 19 Dec 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £236,673 |
| Flat 28 Ladyplace Court | 22 Sep 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £118,337 |
| Flat 7 Ladyplace Court | 17 Apr 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £114,751 |
| Flat 3 Ladyplace Court | 4 Apr 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £172,126 |
| Flat 18 Ladyplace Court | 2 Apr 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £271,000 | £388,718 |
| Flat 36 Ladyplace Court | 19 Dec 2013 | Flat or maisonette | £136,000 | £198,304 |
| Flat 28 Ladyplace Court | 10 Oct 2013 | Flat or maisonette | £69,950 | £101,995 |
| Flat 8 Ladyplace Court | 1 Aug 2013 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £102,068 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Market Square, Alton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 9 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £113,950 (2005) | £92,000 (2026) | -1.0% | -3.8% |
| FLAT 25 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £155,000 (2018) | £165,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -2.9% |
| FLAT 23 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £81,500 (2003) | £118,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 31 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £114,650 (2001) | £145,000 (2022) | +1.1% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 11 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £80,000 (2003) | £107,000 (2022) | +1.5% | -1.0% |
| FLAT 29 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £53,500 (1995) | £159,950 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 6 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £54,000 (1997) | £155,000 (2017) | +5.4% | +3.1% |
| FLAT 3 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £127,500 (2006) | £145,000 (2016) | +1.3% | -1.1% |
| FLAT 1 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £70,000 (2003) | £87,000 (2016) | +1.7% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 5 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £46,000 (1995) | £119,950 (2016) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| FLAT 4 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £55,500 (1997) | £160,000 (2016) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| FLAT 28 LADYPLACE COURT Market Square | £68,000 (2013) | £82,500 (2014) | +21.3% | +19.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Market Square, Alton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 70 | 94.6% | £96,000 | £31,000 – £271,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 4.1% | £137,000 | £135,000 – £235,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.4% | £215,000 | £215,000 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Market Square, Alton
70 of the sales on record are leasehold and 4 freehold — 94.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £96,500 and the median freehold sale £176,000 — a gap of +82.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 70 | 94.6% | £96,500 |
| Freehold | 4 | 5.4% | £176,000 |
| New build | 5 | 6.8% | £105,000 |
| Existing home | 69 | 93.2% | £97,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +8.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 6 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Market Square, Alton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Basingstoke and Deane, 57.0% of 86,071 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 423 | 0.5% |
| B | 14,700 | 17.1% |
| C | 33,960 | 39.5% |
| D | 26,664 | 31.0% |
| E | 7,851 | 9.1% |
| F | 1,949 | 2.3% |
| G | 524 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Basingstoke and Deane at £1,310 a month as of Jun 2026 — £931 for a one-bedroom home and £1,467 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £97,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.12% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of GU34, 63 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 26 violent, 1 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times quieter.
Against the 185,154 residents the 2021 census counted in Basingstoke and Deane, that is 0.34 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Market Square, Alton
The 2021 census counted 185,154 residents in Basingstoke and Deane across 76,645 households. 66.7% of those households own their home and 33.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a GU34 postcode: 13 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amery Hill School | Secondary | Academy converter | 982 |
| Eggar's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 744 |
| The Butts Primary School | Primary | Community school | 357 |
| Four Marks Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 271 |
| Anstey Junior School | Primary | Community school | 222 |
| Saint Lawrence Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 219 |
| Andrews' Endowed Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 199 |
| Medstead Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 176 |
| Wootey Junior School | Primary | Community school | 157 |
| Alton Infant School | Primary | Community school | 156 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Alton (Mid-Hants Railway) | Metro or underground | 2.0 km |
| Alton Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Medstead & Four Marks (Mid Hants Railway) | Metro or underground | 5.0 km |
| Medstead & Four Marks (Mid Hants Railway) | Metro or underground | 5.0 km |
Section 09
How Market Square, Alton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Market Square, Alton sits below that national figure — -38.1%.
Within Alton the street ranks 495 of 498 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £268,000 (-63.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,849 per square metre, across 27 of the 74 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £31,000 to £271,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Market Square, Alton sits in Basingstoke and Deane, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Basingstoke and Deane at 8.8 times median local earnings of £41,470 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Ackender Road£157,500 median
- Adams Way£135,000 median
- Winchester Road£350,000 median
- High Street£215,000 median
- Victoria Road£189,000 median
- Anstey Road£143,975 median
- London Road£240,000 median
- Wooteys Way£162,750 median
- Greenfields Avenue£223,500 median
- Southview Rise£143,000 median
- Blackberry Lane£413,500 median
- Salisbury Close£120,000 median
- Waterside Court£143,250 median
- Hazel Road£175,000 median
- The Street£500,000 median
- Lenten Street£169,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 3, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square4 sales
- FLAT 7, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square4 sales
- FLAT 31, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 11, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 29, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 6, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 1, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 5, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 28, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 10, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square3 sales
- 14A Market Square3 sales
- FLAT 9, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 25, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 23, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 4, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 18, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 36, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 8, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 19, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 15, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 34, LADY PLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 14, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 35, LADY PLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
- FLAT 24, LADYPLACE COURT Market Square2 sales
Back to Alton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Market Square, Alton?
The median price paid in Market Square, Alton across every sale on the register is £97,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Market Square, Alton?
74 sales are on record for Market Square, Alton, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Market Square, Alton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.6% between 2003 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +12.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Market Square, Alton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £120,000, set in 2014. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Market Square, Alton?
£1,849 per square metre, from the 27 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 17 Apr 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Market Square, Alton house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.