That is the middle of 6,289 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 7.2 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.
6,289 homes sold in three years: 227 detached houses, 744 semi-detached houses, 2,736 terraced houses and 2,582 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 5.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£2.3M
median sale · 227 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£1.3M–£4.1M
Last 12 months
£2.6M60 sold
Semi-detached houses£830K
median sale · 744 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£595K–£1.3M
Last 12 months
£845K180 sold
Terraced houses£650K
median sale · 2,736 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£493K–£915K
Last 12 months
£665K723 sold
Flats and maisonettes£400K
median sale · 2,582 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£515K
Last 12 months
£387K679 sold
New build
£560K
The mix
A terraced town: 44% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses4%
Semi-detached houses12%
Terraced houses44%
Flats and maisonettes41%
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 Merton’s homes sold for between £407K and £810K
One sale in ten was under £307K and one in ten over £1.2M. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £542,500, sits in the £500–750K band
6,289 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £74,500 in 1995 to £540,000 in the last 12 months (£470,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,642 sales in the last 12 months, against 5,139 in 1999, the busiest year, and 2,035 in 2020. Sales fell by 51% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 63% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Merton costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Merton, 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
£312K
£615K
£838K
£1.4M
£1.7M
£2M
£2.6M
Semi-detached houses
£93K
£198K
£305K
£438K
£750K
£755K
£845K
Terraced houses
£79K
£150K
£245K
£320K
£475K
£600K
£665K
Flats and maisonettes
£56K
£106K
£192K
£225K
£326K
£390K
£387K
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
5,290 new homes have been sold in Merton since 1995; the share peaked at 12% 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 £565,000
against £540,000 for a home sold on, about the same, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
43% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3% sold leasehold in Merton. 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
Kingston Road (SW20) is Merton’s busiest street, with 90 sales in three years
438 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 184 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
Kingston Road (SW20)
SW20
90
£428,500
Mostly flats
2
Durnsford Road
SW19
66
£310,250
Mostly flats
3
West Barnes Lane (KT3)
KT3
44
£445,000
Mixed
4
Haydons Road
SW19
43
£454,000
Mostly flats
5
Queens Road (SW19)
SW19
41
£500,000
Mostly flats
6
Cannon Hill Lane
SW20
36
£550,000
Mixed
7
Station Road
SW19
35
£560,000
Mostly flats · new builds
8
Lynmouth Avenue
SM4
35
£470,000
Mixed
9
Kingston Road (SW19)
SW19
35
£410,000
Mostly flats
10
Hartfield Road
SW19
34
£550,000
Mostly flats
11
Schoolgate Drive
SM4
34
£330,000
Mostly flats
12
Seely Road
SW17
33
£650,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Woodside
SW19
32
£584,750
Mostly flats
14
London Road (CR4)
CR4
32
£272,750
Mostly flats
15
Edge Hill
SW19
31
£522,500
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Parkside: £5,005,000
Merton median£543K
Parkside£5M
Marryat Road£4.9M
St Marys Road£2.8M
Seymour Road£2.7M
Copse Hill£2.4M
Cheapest streets
Chatsworth Place: £146,000
Merton median£543K
Chatsworth Place£146K
Breakspear Gardens£159K
Lilleshall Road£210K
Burlington Road£215K
Wilkins Close£243K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 34.3 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
Merton is the 17th most expensive of 33 towns in London
Merton 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 Merton
What is the average house price in Merton?
The median home in Merton sold for £542,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 6,289 standard sales (£540,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £2,291,000, semi-detached houses £830,000, terraced houses £650,000 and flats and maisonettes £400,000.
Are house prices going up in Merton?
The median was £550,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£543,500), and £540,000 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 Merton each year?
1,642 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 2,469 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Merton?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Parkside (SW19, £5,005,000), Marryat Road (SW19, £4,931,875) and St Marys Road (SW19, £2,837,500).
How much does a new build cost in Merton?
New homes sold for a median £565,000 over three years, against £540,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 1% of sales.
Is Merton expensive for London?
Merton is the 17th 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.