That is the middle of 145 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 7.1 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.
145 homes sold in three years: 72 detached houses, 48 semi-detached houses, 10 terraced houses and 15 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£551K
median sale · 72 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£480K–£735K
Last 12 months
£575K23 sold
Semi-detached houses£434K
median sale · 48 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£400K–£500K
Last 12 months
£433K16 sold
Terraced houses£340K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£308K–£425K
Last 12 months
£310K5 sold
Flats and maisonettes£268K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£247K–£295K
Last 12 months
£275K5 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses50%
Semi-detached houses33%
Terraced houses7%
Flats and maisonettes10%
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 Kennington’s homes sold for between £400K and £587K
One sale in ten was under £295K and one in ten over £763K. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £475,500, sits in the £400–500K band
145 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £69,600 in 1995 to £495,000 in the last 12 months (£400,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
49 sales in the last 12 months, against 112 in 2006, the busiest year, and 32 in 2008. Sales fell by 46% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 14%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 23% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Kennington costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Kennington, 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
£98K
£184K
£315K
£358K
£415K
£465K
£575K
Semi-detached houses
£67K
£146K
£230K
£273K
£310K
£355K
£433K
Terraced houses
£60K
£101K
£218K
£215K
—
£285K
£310K
Flats and maisonettes
—
—
£200K
£168K
£230K
£268K
£275K
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
121 new homes have been sold in Kennington since 1995; the share peaked at 34% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.8% sold leasehold in Kennington. 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
The Avenue is Kennington’s busiest street, with 22 sales in three years
10 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 5 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
The Avenue
OX1
22
£427,500
Mixed
2
Kennington Road (OX1)
OX1
11
£505,000
Mixed
3
Upper Road
OX1
11
£468,000
Mixed
4
Bagley Close
OX1
11
£425,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Poplar Grove
OX1
10
£552,500
Mostly detached houses
6
Simpsons Way
OX1
8
£515,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Bagley Wood Road
OX1
7
£1,100,000
Mixed
8
Cranbrook Drive
OX1
6
£540,250
Mostly detached houses
9
Playfield Road
OX1
5
£500,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Meadow View Road
OX1
5
£410,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
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 Oxfordshire
Kennington is the 9th most expensive of 40 towns in Oxfordshire
Kennington is in the middle of Oxfordshire’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 Kennington
What is the average house price in Kennington?
The median home in Kennington sold for £475,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 145 standard sales (£495,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £551,000, semi-detached houses £433,750, terraced houses £340,000 and flats and maisonettes £267,500.
Are house prices going up in Kennington?
The median was £485,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£468,000), and £495,000 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 Kennington each year?
49 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 56 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Kennington?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Bagley Wood Road (OX1, £1,100,000), Poplar Grove (OX1, £552,500) and Cranbrook Drive (OX1, £540,250).
Is Kennington expensive for Oxfordshire?
Kennington is the 9th most expensive of 40 towns of 2,500 or more in Oxfordshire 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.