That is the middle of 522 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 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.
522 homes sold in three years: 221 detached houses, 154 semi-detached houses, 48 terraced houses and 99 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£900K
median sale · 221 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£770K–£1.2M
Last 12 months
£893K62 sold
Semi-detached houses£675K
median sale · 154 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£595K–£780K
Last 12 months
£665K45 sold
Terraced houses£568K
median sale · 48 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£505K–£650K
Last 12 months
£635K11 sold
Flats and maisonettes£360K
median sale · 99 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£288K–£415K
Last 12 months
£346K20 sold
New build
£535K
The mix
Mostly detached: 42% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses42%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses9%
Flats and maisonettes19%
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 Ashtead’s homes sold for between £535K and £885K
One sale in ten was under £351K and one in ten over £1.2M. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £715,000, sits in the £500–750K band
522 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 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £123,600 in 1995 to £742,500 in the last 12 months (£577,750 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
138 sales in the last 12 months, against 342 in 2002, the busiest year, and 169 in 2023. Sales fell by 37% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 38% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ashtead costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ashtead, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£164K
£347K
£441K
£535K
£728K
£780K
£893K
Semi-detached houses
£111K
£197K
£306K
£376K
£506K
£578K
£665K
Terraced houses
£92K
£165K
£232K
£294K
£416K
£498K
£635K
Flats and maisonettes
£64K
£108K
£188K
£195K
£285K
£314K
£346K
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
475 new homes have been sold in Ashtead since 1995; the share peaked at 20% in 2012.
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 £602,500
against £718,250 for a home sold on, 16% 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.
20% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.7% sold leasehold in Ashtead. 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
Barnett Wood Lane is Ashtead’s busiest street, with 20 sales in three years
34 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 11 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
Barnett Wood Lane
KT21
20
£747,500
Mixed
2
Leatherhead Road
KT21
19
£508,950
Mixed
3
Craddocks Avenue
KT21
18
£778,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Overdale
KT21
16
£757,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Newton Wood Road
KT21
15
£767,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Links Road
KT21
13
£865,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Gladstone Road
KT21
12
£606,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Read Road
KT21
12
£592,500
Mixed
9
Ottways Lane
KT21
10
£802,500
Mostly detached houses
10
Woodfield Lane
KT21
10
£590,000
Mixed
11
Moat Court
KT21
10
£375,000
Mostly flats
12
Taylor Road
KT21
9
£592,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Albert Road
KT21
9
£305,000
Mostly flats
14
Park Lane
KT21
8
£1,490,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Hatherwood
KT22
8
£770,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Park Lane: £1,490,000
Ashtead median£715K
Park Lane£1.5M
Agates Lane£1.2M
Harriotts Lane£1M
Quarry Gardens£950K
West Farm Drive£888K
Cheapest streets
Broadmead: £170,000
Ashtead median£715K
Broadmead£170K
Brookers Close£201K
Greville Park Road£220K
The Street£264K
Albert Road£305K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.8 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 Surrey
Ashtead is the 7th most expensive of 66 towns in Surrey
Ashtead is one of Surrey’s dearest 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 Ashtead
What is the average house price in Ashtead?
The median home in Ashtead sold for £715,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 522 standard sales (£742,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £900,000, semi-detached houses £675,000, terraced houses £567,500 and flats and maisonettes £360,000.
Are house prices going up in Ashtead?
The median was £730,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£700,000), and £742,500 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 Ashtead each year?
138 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 205 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Ashtead?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Park Lane (KT21, £1,490,000), Agates Lane (KT21, £1,190,000) and Harriotts Lane (KT21, £1,042,500).
How much does a new build cost in Ashtead?
New homes sold for a median £602,500 over three years, against £718,250 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.5% of sales.
Is Ashtead expensive for Surrey?
Ashtead is the 7th most expensive of 66 towns of 2,500 or more in Surrey 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.