That is the middle of 48 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 7 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
48 homes sold in three years: 25 detached houses, 18 semi-detached houses, 2 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£670K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£570K–£865K
Last 12 months
£583K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£441K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£395K–£495K
Last 12 months
£475K5 sold
Fewer sales
Terraced houses: 2 sold Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses52%
Semi-detached houses38%
Terraced houses4%
Flats and maisonettes6%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Harston’s homes sold for between £447K and £700K
One sale in ten was under £350K and one in ten over £950K. 6% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £522,500, sits in the £500–750K band
48 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £80,950 in 1995 to £565,000 in the last 12 months (£545,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
12 sales in the last 12 months, against 49 in 1999, the busiest year, and 14 in 2012. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 36% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Harston costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Harston, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£130K
£224K
£358K
£405K
£570K
£600K
£583K
Semi-detached houses
£66K
£133K
£170K
—
£372K
£420K
£475K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
65 new homes have been sold in Harston since 1995; the share peaked at 26% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £488,500
against £545,000 for a home sold on, 10% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
6% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Harston. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Harston’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Harston
What is the average house price in Harston?
The median home in Harston sold for £522,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 48 standard sales (£565,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £670,000 and semi-detached houses £441,000.
Are house prices going up in Harston?
The median was £502,000 in 2025, down 9% on 2024 (£550,000), and £565,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Harston each year?
12 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 24 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Harston?
New homes sold for a median £488,500 over three years, against £545,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 13% of sales.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: John Sutton · CC BY-SA 2.0