That is the middle of 71 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 5.5 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.
A third of Wateringbury’s sales are detached houses
71 homes sold in three years: 25 detached houses, 18 semi-detached houses, 19 terraced houses and 9 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£520K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£470K–£645K
Last 12 months
£553K10 sold
Semi-detached houses£430K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£590K
Last 12 months
£385K9 sold
Terraced houses£325K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£295K–£375K
Last 12 months
£341K6 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 9 sold, median £194K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses35%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses27%
Flats and maisonettes13%
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 Wateringbury’s homes sold for between £312K and £520K
One sale in ten was under £241K and one in ten over £690K. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £416,500, sits in the £400–500K band
71 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.5 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £69,747 in 1995 to £385,000 in the last 12 months (£409,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
31 sales in the last 12 months, against 90 in 1998, the busiest year, and 17 in 2008. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 49% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Wateringbury costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Wateringbury, 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
£123K
—
£318K
£321K
£475K
£450K
£553K
Semi-detached houses
£79K
£107K
£256K
£223K
£310K
£350K
£385K
Terraced houses
£50K
£95K
£190K
£193K
£241K
£323K
£341K
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
107 new homes have been sold in Wateringbury since 1995; the share peaked at 56% 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
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Wateringbury. 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
Tonbridge Road is Wateringbury’s busiest street, with 10 sales in three years
4 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Tonbridge Road
ME18
10
£648,250
Mixed
2
Bow Road
ME18
9
£590,000
Mixed
3
Phoenix Drive
ME18
7
£505,000
Mostly detached houses
4
The Orpines
ME18
5
£135,000
Mostly 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.
Wateringbury’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Wateringbury
What is the average house price in Wateringbury?
The median home in Wateringbury sold for £416,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 71 standard sales (£385,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £520,000, semi-detached houses £430,000, terraced houses £325,000 and flats and maisonettes £194,000.
Are house prices going up in Wateringbury?
The median was £416,500 in 2025, down 4% on 2024 (£435,000), and £385,000 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 Wateringbury each year?
31 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 31 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.