That is the middle of 88 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 5.3 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.
88 homes sold in three years: 29 detached houses, 33 semi-detached houses, 25 terraced houses and 1 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£325K
median sale · 29 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£425K
Last 12 months
£330K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£235K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£202K–£250K
Last 12 months
£235K7 sold
Terraced houses£225K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£265K
Last 12 months
£228K6 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 1 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses33%
Semi-detached houses38%
Terraced houses28%
Flats and maisonettes1%
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 Ruspidge’s homes sold for between £210K and £300K
One sale in ten was under £175K and one in ten over £425K. 55% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £242,750, sits in the £200–250K band
88 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.3 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £44,500 in 1995 to £235,000 in the last 12 months (£207,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
19 sales in the last 12 months, against 70 in 2014, the busiest year, and 17 in 2009. Sales fell by 67% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 4%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 58% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ruspidge costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ruspidge, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£55K
£85K
£175K
£247K
£220K
£274K
£330K
Semi-detached houses
£41K
£59K
£142K
£123K
£125K
£180K
£235K
Terraced houses
£40K
£52K
£123K
£117K
£110K
£164K
£228K
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
5% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
201 new homes have been sold in Ruspidge since 1995; the share peaked at 63% in 2011.
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 £268,500
against £240,000 for a home sold on, 12% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
1% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Ruspidge. 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
Buckshaft Road is Ruspidge’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Buckshaft Road
GL14
19
£247,500
Mixed
2
St Whites Road
GL14
9
£242,500
Mixed
3
Ruspidge Road
GL14
8
£246,500
Mixed
4
Railway Road
GL14
6
£270,000
Mixed
5
Sneyd Wood Road
GL14
6
£201,500
Mostly terraced houses
6
Abbots View
GL14
5
£460,000
Mostly 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.
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 Ruspidge
What is the average house price in Ruspidge?
The median home in Ruspidge sold for £242,750 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 88 standard sales (£235,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £325,000, semi-detached houses £235,000 and terraced houses £225,000.
Are house prices going up in Ruspidge?
The median was £235,000 in 2025, down 6% on 2024 (£250,000), and £235,000 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 Ruspidge each year?
19 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 42 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Ruspidge?
New homes sold for a median £268,500 over three years, against £240,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 5.7% 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: Eric Soons · CC BY-SA 2.0