That is the middle of 37 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.
37 homes sold in three years: 16 detached houses, 17 semi-detached houses and 4 terraced houses.
Detached houses£494K
median sale · 16 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£425K–£610K
Last 12 months
£479K5 sold
Semi-detached houses£375K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£350K–£485K
Last 12 months
£350K5 sold
Fewer sales
Terraced houses: 4 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 43% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses43%
Semi-detached houses46%
Terraced houses11%
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 Blean’s homes sold for between £350K and £523K
One sale in ten was under £285K and one in ten over £613K. 8% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £410,000, sits in the £400–500K band
37 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 £77,250 in 1995 to £410,000 in the last 12 months (£310,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
11 sales in the last 12 months, against 29 in 2007, the busiest year, and 7 in 2022. Sales fell by 55% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Blean costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Blean, 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
£87K
£169K
£250K
£304K
£425K
£402K
£479K
Semi-detached houses
£42K
£85K
£218K
—
£278K
£337K
£350K
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
32 new homes have been sold in Blean since 1995; the share peaked at 34% 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
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Blean. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
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 Blean
What is the average house price in Blean?
The median home in Blean sold for £410,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 37 standard sales (£410,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £494,250 and semi-detached houses £375,000.
Are house prices going up in Blean?
The median was £408,750 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£390,000), and £410,000 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 Blean each year?
11 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 14 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.