That is the middle of 66 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 6.1 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.
66 homes sold in three years: 24 detached houses, 20 semi-detached houses, 18 terraced houses and 4 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£425K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£370K–£500K
Last 12 months
£430K10 sold
Semi-detached houses£295K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£320K
Last 12 months
£288K7 sold
Terraced houses£239K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£218K–£275K
Last 12 months
£243K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 4 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses36%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses27%
Flats and maisonettes6%
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 Acton’s homes sold for between £250K and £385K
One sale in ten was under £208K and one in ten over £500K. 24% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £302,500, sits in the £300–400K band
66 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,475 in 1995 to £302,500 in the last 12 months (£250,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
26 sales in the last 12 months, against 63 in 2021, the busiest year, and 20 in 2011. Sales fell by 26% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 16%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 133% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Acton costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Acton, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£62K
£122K
£279K
£212K
£265K
£400K
£430K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£71K
£170K
£178K
£188K
£275K
£288K
Terraced houses
£44K
£65K
£133K
£140K
£195K
£210K
£243K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 62% in 2022
81 new homes have been sold in Acton since 1995; the share peaked at 62% in 2022.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
8% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.6% sold leasehold in Acton. 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
Lambert Drive is Acton’s busiest street, with 10 sales in three years
3 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
Lambert Drive
CO10
10
£275,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Canon Pugh Drive
CO10
5
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Lime Walk
CO10
5
£245,000
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.
Acton’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 Acton
What is the average house price in Acton?
The median home in Acton sold for £302,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 66 standard sales (£302,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £425,000, semi-detached houses £295,000 and terraced houses £238,750.
Are house prices going up in Acton?
The median was £317,500 in 2025, up 8% on 2024 (£295,000), and £302,500 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 Acton each year?
26 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 33 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.