Housing in Royal Tunbridge Wells · HM Land Registry
The median home in Royal Tunbridge Wells sells for £417,250
That is the middle of 2,348 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 6.2 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.
39% of Royal Tunbridge Wells’s sales are flats and maisonettes
2,348 homes sold in three years: 389 detached houses, 557 semi-detached houses, 490 terraced houses and 912 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£910K
median sale · 389 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£663K–£1.2M
Last 12 months
£910K99 sold
Semi-detached houses£510K
median sale · 557 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£400K–£715K
Last 12 months
£487K153 sold
New build
£805K
Terraced houses£400K
median sale · 490 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£600K
Last 12 months
£425K156 sold
Flats and maisonettes£275K
median sale · 912 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£205K–£380K
Last 12 months
£263K252 sold
New build
£425K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses17%
Semi-detached houses24%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes39%
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 Royal Tunbridge Wells’s homes sold for between £295K and £680K
One sale in ten was under £205K and one in ten over £975K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £417,250, sits in the £400–500K band
2,348 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £67,250 in 1995 to £415,000 in the last 12 months (£368,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
660 sales in the last 12 months, against 1,661 in 2007, the busiest year, and 771 in 2023. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 57% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Royal Tunbridge Wells costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Royal Tunbridge Wells, 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
£141K
£280K
£430K
£500K
£700K
£755K
£910K
Semi-detached houses
£74K
£134K
£228K
£268K
£373K
£470K
£487K
Terraced houses
£60K
£100K
£193K
£247K
£328K
£372K
£425K
Flats and maisonettes
£43K
£79K
£162K
£171K
£210K
£265K
£263K
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: 0.3% of sales in the last 12 months
3,075 new homes have been sold in Royal Tunbridge Wells since 1995; the share peaked at 25% in 2008.
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 £438,750
against £415,000 for a home sold on, 6% 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.
39% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.4% sold leasehold in Royal Tunbridge Wells. 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
Upper Grosvenor Road (TN1) is Royal Tunbridge Wells’s busiest street, with 59 sales in three years
174 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 61 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
Upper Grosvenor Road (TN1)
TN1
59
£250,000
Mostly flats
2
Mount Ephraim
TN4
37
£345,000
Mostly flats
3
Broadwater Down
TN2
34
£462,500
Mostly flats
4
Sandhurst Road
TN2
32
£276,000
Mixed
5
St Johns Road
TN4
29
£625,000
Mostly flats
6
Frant Road
TN2
28
£370,000
Mostly flats
7
Silverdale Road
TN4
26
£453,500
Mixed
8
Forest Road
TN2
24
£910,250
Mixed
9
Queens Road
TN4
24
£315,000
Mixed
10
London Road
TN1
23
£315,000
Mostly flats
11
Stephens Road
TN4
22
£802,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Willicombe Park
TN2
22
£365,000
Mostly flats
13
Molyneux Park Road
TN4
22
£301,250
Mostly flats
14
Exchange Mews
TN4
21
£260,000
Mostly flats
15
York Road
TN1
20
£235,000
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Calverley Park: £3,950,000
Royal Tunbridge Wells median£417K
Calverley Park£4M
Nevill Park£1.5M
Prospect Road£1.4M
Camden Park£1.3M
Dukes Drive£1.1M
Cheapest streets
The Avenue: £107,500
Royal Tunbridge Wells median£417K
The Avenue£108K
Dunstan Road£167K
Chenies Close£180K
Dudley Road£187K
Whitefield Road£190K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 36.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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 Kent
Royal Tunbridge Wells is the 20th most expensive of 87 towns in Kent
Royal Tunbridge Wells is in the middle of Kent’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 Royal Tunbridge Wells
What is the average house price in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
The median home in Royal Tunbridge Wells sold for £417,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 2,348 standard sales (£415,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £910,000, semi-detached houses £510,000, terraced houses £400,000 and flats and maisonettes £275,000.
Are house prices going up in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
The median was £415,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£410,250), and £415,000 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells each year?
660 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 1,002 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Calverley Park (TN1, £3,950,000), Nevill Park (TN4, £1,500,000) and Prospect Road (TN2, £1,350,000).
How much does a new build cost in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
New homes sold for a median £438,750 over three years, against £415,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 2.1% of sales.
Is Royal Tunbridge Wells expensive for Kent?
Royal Tunbridge Wells is the 20th most expensive of 87 towns of 2,500 or more in Kent 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.
Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0