That is the middle of 1,058 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 6.5 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.
1,058 homes sold in three years: 396 detached houses, 220 semi-detached houses, 221 terraced houses and 221 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£1.3M
median sale · 396 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£980K–£1.7M
Last 12 months
£1.3M103 sold
Semi-detached houses£650K
median sale · 220 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£485K–£875K
Last 12 months
£650K66 sold
Terraced houses£450K
median sale · 221 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£390K–£580K
Last 12 months
£438K71 sold
Flats and maisonettes£323K
median sale · 221 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£273K–£450K
Last 12 months
£363K54 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses37%
Semi-detached houses21%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes21%
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 Sevenoaks’s homes sold for between £418K and £1.2M
One sale in ten was under £315K and one in ten over £1.7M. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £670,500, sits in the £500–750K band
1,058 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.5 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £98,500 in 1995 to £640,000 in the last 12 months (£530,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
294 sales in the last 12 months, against 644 in 2006, the busiest year, and 290 in 2008. Sales fell by 33% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 51% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Sevenoaks costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Sevenoaks, 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
£188K
£336K
£528K
£688K
£900K
£1.1M
£1.3M
Semi-detached houses
£94K
£168K
£261K
£305K
£448K
£575K
£650K
Terraced houses
£67K
£134K
£226K
£263K
£370K
£423K
£438K
Flats and maisonettes
£58K
£101K
£165K
£198K
£265K
£310K
£363K
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
917 new homes have been sold in Sevenoaks since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
21% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.8% sold leasehold in Sevenoaks. 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
London Road is Sevenoaks’s busiest street, with 44 sales in three years
73 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 27 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
London Road
TN13
44
£400,000
Mostly flats
2
St Johns Hill
TN13
21
£334,500
Mostly flats
3
St Johns Road
TN13
19
£310,000
Mixed
4
Hitchen Hatch Lane
TN13
18
£837,500
Mixed
5
Mount Harry Road
TN13
17
£720,000
Mixed
6
High Street
TN13
16
£477,500
Mixed
7
Oakhill Road
TN13
15
£1,875,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Chesterfield Drive
TN13
15
£850,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Chipstead Lane
TN13
15
£500,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Granville Road
TN13
15
£450,000
Mostly flats
11
Rockdale Road
TN13
15
£380,000
Mostly flats
12
Cramptons Road
TN14
15
£355,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Kippington Road
TN13
13
£2,250,000
Mostly detached houses
14
Seal Hollow Road
TN13
13
£1,625,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Marlborough Crescent
TN13
13
£1,350,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Woodland Rise: £3,000,000
Sevenoaks median£671K
Woodland Rise£3M
Kippington Road£2.3M
Ashgrove Road£2M
Oakhill Road£1.9M
Oak Lane£1.7M
Cheapest streets
Chatham Hill Road: £295,500
Sevenoaks median£671K
Chatham Hill Road£296K
St Johns Road£310K
Constant Meadow£311K
St Johns Hill£335K
Eardley Road£338K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 10.2 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
Sevenoaks is the most expensive of 87 towns in Kent
Sevenoaks is one of Kent’s dearest 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 Sevenoaks
What is the average house price in Sevenoaks?
The median home in Sevenoaks sold for £670,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,058 standard sales (£640,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £1,300,000, semi-detached houses £650,000, terraced houses £450,000 and flats and maisonettes £322,500.
Are house prices going up in Sevenoaks?
The median was £725,000 in 2025, up 13% on 2024 (£640,000), and £640,000 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 Sevenoaks each year?
294 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 408 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Sevenoaks?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Woodland Rise (TN15, £3,000,000), Kippington Road (TN13, £2,250,000) and Ashgrove Road (TN13, £1,950,000).
Is Sevenoaks expensive for Kent?
Sevenoaks is the 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.
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