Thornton End, Alton house prices

Thornton End, Alton house prices are built from 90 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £108,750. Across the 19 years from 2007 to 2026 the median moved -14.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -50.7%.

HM Land Registry90 sales56 with floor areaLatest sale 8 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Thornton End, Alton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Thornton End, Alton is £115,000 in 2007; the lowest is £48,000 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £98,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £101,774, so the real change over the whole record is -3.2% — about -0.11% 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: -14.3% in cash against -50.7% 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.

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.

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 Thornton End, Alton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thornton End, Alton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

58 of the sales on record are leasehold and 32 freehold — 64.4% 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 £91,500 and the median freehold sale £213,500 — a gap of +133.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +7.0%. 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 1 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.

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.

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 £108,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.46% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thornton End, Alton sits below that national figure — -31.0%.

Within Alton the street ranks 494 of 498 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £268,000 (-59.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,029 per square metre, across 56 of the 90 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 £39,000 to £410,000. 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.

Thornton End, 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.

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

• 4 Thornton End7 sales
• FLAT 23, GASKELL COURT Thornton End5 sales
• FLAT 19, GASKELL COURT Thornton End5 sales
• FLAT 11, GASKELL COURT Thornton End5 sales
• FLAT 30, GASKELL COURT Thornton End5 sales
• FLAT 26, GASKELL COURT Thornton End5 sales
• FLAT 28, GASKELL COURT Thornton End4 sales
• 44 Thornton End4 sales
• FLAT 13, GASKELL COURT Thornton End4 sales
• FLAT 21, GASKELL COURT Thornton End4 sales
• FLAT 15, GASKELL COURT Thornton End3 sales
• 45 Thornton End3 sales
• 42 Thornton End3 sales
• 38 Thornton End3 sales
• 9 Thornton End3 sales
• FLAT 18, GASKELL COURT Thornton End3 sales
• 35 Thornton End3 sales
• FLAT 29, GASKELL COURT Thornton End2 sales
• 12 Thornton End2 sales
• FLAT 17, GASKELL COURT Thornton End2 sales
• 7 Thornton End2 sales
• FLAT 32, GASKELL COURT Thornton End2 sales
• FLAT 31, GASKELL COURT Thornton End2 sales

Back to Alton house prices.

What is the average house price in Thornton End, Alton?

The median price paid in Thornton End, Alton across every sale on the register is £108,750. 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 Thornton End, Alton?

90 sales are on record for Thornton End, Alton, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Thornton End, Alton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -14.3% between 2007 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -50.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Thornton End, Alton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £115,000, set in 2007. 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 Thornton End, Alton?

£2,029 per square metre, from the 56 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 8 May 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, “Thornton End, 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.