That is the middle of 119 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 5.5 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.
119 homes sold in three years: 62 detached houses, 32 semi-detached houses, 23 terraced houses and 2 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£373K
median sale · 62 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£435K
Last 12 months
£360K21 sold
Semi-detached houses£284K
median sale · 32 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£233K–£317K
Last 12 months
£283K10 sold
Terraced houses£238K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£220K–£273K
Last 12 months
£269K6 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 2 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 houses27%
Terraced houses19%
Flats and maisonettes2%
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 Sutton’s homes sold for between £252K and £395K
One sale in ten was under £213K and one in ten over £475K. 24% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £300,000, sits in the £300–400K band
119 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.5 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £56,500 in 1995 to £310,000 in the last 12 months (£270,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
37 sales in the last 12 months, against 160 in 2007, the busiest year, and 31 in 2024. Sales fell by 58% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 4%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 54% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Sutton costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Sutton, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£78K
£112K
£224K
£235K
£275K
£340K
£360K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£70K
£135K
£143K
£187K
£255K
£283K
Terraced houses
£39K
£62K
£129K
£130K
£169K
£194K
£269K
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
335 new homes have been sold in Sutton since 1995; the share peaked at 43% in 2007.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
2% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Sutton. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
High Street is Sutton’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
High Street
CB6
15
£340,000
Mostly detached houses
2
The Row
CB6
14
£410,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Stimpson Street
CB6
7
£342,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Stirling Way
CB6
5
£290,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Darbys Yard
CB6
5
£218,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Priors Court
CB6
5
£210,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Cambridgeshire
Sutton is the 34th most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
Sutton is in the middle of Cambridgeshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Sutton
What is the average house price in Sutton?
The median home in Sutton sold for £300,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 119 standard sales (£310,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £373,030, semi-detached houses £283,750 and terraced houses £238,000.
Are house prices going up in Sutton?
The median was £310,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£317,000), and £310,000 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 Sutton each year?
37 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 67 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Sutton expensive for Cambridgeshire?
Sutton is the 34th most expensive of 51 towns of 2,500 or more in Cambridgeshire by median sale price.
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.