That is the middle of 60 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 4 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.
60 homes sold in three years: 19 detached houses, 31 semi-detached houses and 10 terraced houses.
Detached houses£370K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£266K–£540K
Last 12 months
£287K8 sold
Semi-detached houses£260K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£225K–£295K
Last 12 months
£260K16 sold
Terraced houses£223K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£197K–£250K
Last 12 months
£225K7 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 52% of sales
Detached houses32%
Semi-detached houses52%
Terraced houses17%
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 Gotham’s homes sold for between £225K and £320K
One sale in ten was under £195K and one in ten over £480K. 35% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £268,650, sits in the £250–300K band
60 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £65,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in the last 12 months (£195,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
More homes sell than in most years
31 sales in the last 12 months, against 36 in 2000, the busiest year, and 10 in 2011.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Gotham costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Gotham, 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
£78K
£105K
—
£235K
£260K
£319K
£287K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£75K
£144K
£156K
£167K
£208K
£260K
Terraced houses
—
—
—
£130K
—
£193K
£225K
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
44 new homes have been sold in Gotham since 1995; the share peaked at 57% in 2009.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Gotham. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
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 Gotham
What is the average house price in Gotham?
The median home in Gotham sold for £268,650 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 60 standard sales (£260,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £370,000, semi-detached houses £260,000 and terraced houses £222,500.
Are house prices going up in Gotham?
The median was £275,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£282,500), and £260,000 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 Gotham each year?
31 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 25 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.