That is the middle of 99 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 4.4 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.
A third of Charlton’s sales are semi-detached houses
99 homes sold in three years: 24 detached houses, 31 semi-detached houses, 27 terraced houses and 17 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£461K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£400K–£510K
Last 12 months
£465K7 sold
Semi-detached houses£340K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£385K
Last 12 months
£348K9 sold
Terraced houses£290K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£311K
Last 12 months
£318K5 sold
Flats and maisonettes£200K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£210K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 31% of sales
Detached houses24%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses27%
Flats and maisonettes17%
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 Charlton’s homes sold for between £237K and £390K
One sale in ten was under £200K and one in ten over £478K. 25% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £330,000, sits in the £300–400K band
99 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.4 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £79,625 in 1995 to £348,000 in the last 12 months (£365,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
25 sales in the last 12 months, against 77 in 1999, the busiest year, and 19 in 2011. Sales fell by 57% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 28%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Charlton costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Charlton, 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
£94K
£168K
£247K
£280K
£325K
£370K
£465K
Semi-detached houses
£65K
£123K
£171K
£189K
£255K
£283K
£348K
Terraced houses
£59K
£123K
£179K
£185K
£195K
£229K
£318K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 45% in 2018
91 new homes have been sold in Charlton since 1995; the share peaked at 45% in 2018.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
20% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.7% sold leasehold in Charlton. 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
Carters Meadow is Charlton’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
7 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
Carters Meadow
SP10
19
£217,500
Mostly flats
2
Tower Close
SP10
9
£400,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Sunnyside Close
SP10
8
£288,250
Mixed
4
Peake Way
SP10
7
£347,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Mercia Avenue
SP10
6
£354,000
Mixed
6
Wetherby Gardens
SP10
5
£290,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Armstrong Rise
SP10
5
£262,000
Mostly terraced 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 Charlton
What is the average house price in Charlton?
The median home in Charlton sold for £330,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 99 standard sales (£348,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £461,000, semi-detached houses £340,000, terraced houses £290,000 and flats and maisonettes £200,000.
Are house prices going up in Charlton?
The median was £298,750 in 2025, down 11% on 2024 (£335,000), and £348,000 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 Charlton each year?
25 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 37 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.