Housing in Kingston upon Thames · HM Land Registry
The median home in Kingston upon Thames sells for £550,000
That is the middle of 5,234 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 6.8 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.
40% of Kingston upon Thames’s sales are flats and maisonettes
5,234 homes sold in three years: 487 detached houses, 1,498 semi-detached houses, 1,158 terraced houses and 2,091 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£1.1M
median sale · 487 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£770K–£1.5M
Last 12 months
£1.1M129 sold
Semi-detached houses£746K
median sale · 1,498 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£608K–£905K
Last 12 months
£764K434 sold
Terraced houses£575K
median sale · 1,158 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£475K–£743K
Last 12 months
£590K330 sold
Flats and maisonettes£380K
median sale · 2,091 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£458K
Last 12 months
£373K559 sold
New build
£440K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 40% of sales
Detached houses9%
Semi-detached houses29%
Terraced houses22%
Flats and maisonettes40%
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 Kingston upon Thames’s homes sold for between £400K and £780K
One sale in ten was under £310K and one in ten over £1.1M. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £550,000, sits in the £500–750K band
5,234 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.8 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £81,000 in 1995 to £554,350 in the last 12 months (£485,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,452 sales in the last 12 months, against 4,247 in 2002, the busiest year, and 1,690 in 2008. Sales fell by 52% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 61% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Kingston upon Thames costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Kingston upon Thames, 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
£145K
£318K
£450K
£581K
£835K
£978K
£1.1M
Semi-detached houses
£100K
£190K
£294K
£396K
£563K
£650K
£764K
Terraced houses
£79K
£151K
£240K
£295K
£425K
£510K
£590K
Flats and maisonettes
£60K
£125K
£198K
£230K
£326K
£375K
£373K
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: 0.1% of sales in the last 12 months
6,225 new homes have been sold in Kingston upon Thames since 1995; the share peaked at 16% in 1995.
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 £440,000
against £550,000 for a home sold on, 20% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
40% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.2% sold leasehold in Kingston upon Thames. 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
Ewell Road is Kingston upon Thames’s busiest street, with 76 sales in three years
383 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 145 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
Ewell Road
KT6
76
£343,750
Mostly flats
2
Kingston Road (KT3)
KT3
47
£306,000
Mostly flats
3
St Andrews Square
KT6
43
£427,500
Mostly flats
4
Lovelace Gardens
KT6
40
£412,000
Mostly flats
5
St Marks Hill
KT6
37
£390,000
Mostly flats
6
King Charles Road
KT5
35
£475,000
Mostly flats
7
Surbiton Hill Park
KT5
35
£330,000
Mostly flats
8
Maple Road
KT6
34
£430,000
Mostly flats
9
Richmond Road
KT2
33
£438,000
Mostly flats
10
High Street (KT3)
KT3
31
£410,000
Mostly flats · new builds
11
Lovelace Road
KT6
31
£410,000
Mostly flats
12
The Avenue (KT5)
KT5
31
£390,000
Mostly flats
13
Park Road (KT2)
KT2
29
£815,000
Mixed
14
Ellerton Road
KT6
29
£510,000
Mixed
15
Avenue Elmers
KT6
29
£445,000
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Warren Road: £2,100,000
Kingston upon Thames median£550K
Warren Road£2.1M
Knights Park£1.5M
Cambridge Avenue£1.5M
Woodlands Avenue£1.5M
Bainbridge Close£1.5M
Cheapest streets
Queen Elizabeth Road: £195,000
Kingston upon Thames median£550K
Queen Elizabeth Road£195K
Barnsbury Lane£215K
Gooding Close£225K
Percy Gardens£232K
Donald Woods Gardens£237K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 10.8 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 London
Kingston upon Thames is the 14th most expensive of 33 towns in London
Kingston upon Thames is in the middle of London’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 Kingston upon Thames
What is the average house price in Kingston upon Thames?
The median home in Kingston upon Thames sold for £550,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 5,234 standard sales (£554,350 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £1,100,000, semi-detached houses £746,450, terraced houses £575,000 and flats and maisonettes £380,000.
Are house prices going up in Kingston upon Thames?
The median was £550,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£548,500), and £554,350 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 Kingston upon Thames each year?
1,452 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 2,146 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Kingston upon Thames?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Warren Road (KT2, £2,100,000), Knights Park (KT1, £1,502,125) and Cambridge Avenue (KT3, £1,500,000).
How much does a new build cost in Kingston upon Thames?
New homes sold for a median £440,000 over three years, against £550,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1% of sales.
Is Kingston upon Thames expensive for London?
Kingston upon Thames is the 13th most expensive of 33 towns of 2,500 or more in London 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.