That is the middle of 517 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 6.9 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.
A third of Hersham’s sales are semi-detached houses
517 homes sold in three years: 123 detached houses, 192 semi-detached houses, 122 terraced houses and 80 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£1.1M
median sale · 123 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£745K–£2.1M
Last 12 months
£1M37 sold
Semi-detached houses£600K
median sale · 192 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£530K–£740K
Last 12 months
£648K55 sold
Terraced houses£520K
median sale · 122 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£460K–£610K
Last 12 months
£520K42 sold
Flats and maisonettes£303K
median sale · 80 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£353K
Last 12 months
£315K14 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses24%
Semi-detached houses37%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes15%
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 Hersham’s homes sold for between £463K and £765K
One sale in ten was under £307K and one in ten over £1.4M. 3% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £580,000, sits in the £500–750K band
517 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.9 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £85,000 in 1995 to £585,750 in the last 12 months (£530,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
148 sales in the last 12 months, against 359 in 2021, the busiest year, and 147 in 2008. Sales fell by 33% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 55% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hersham costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hersham, 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
£170K
£448K
£490K
£765K
£1,000K
£1.3M
£1M
Semi-detached houses
£82K
£160K
£250K
£318K
£446K
£555K
£648K
Terraced houses
£76K
£155K
£219K
£293K
£381K
£472K
£520K
Flats and maisonettes
£60K
£108K
£162K
£187K
£244K
£350K
£315K
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 19% in 2020
450 new homes have been sold in Hersham since 1995; the share peaked at 19% in 2020.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.5% sold leasehold in Hersham. 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
Molesey Road is Hersham’s busiest street, with 36 sales in three years
41 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Molesey Road
KT12
36
£456,500
Mixed
2
Queens Road
KT12
28
£424,750
Mixed
3
Albany Road
KT12
23
£570,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Bell Farm Way
KT12
21
£375,000
Mostly flats
5
Burwood Road
KT12
19
£745,000
Mixed
6
Rydens Grove
KT12
15
£559,620
Mixed
7
Hersham Road
KT12
14
£545,000
Mixed
8
West Grove
KT12
11
£750,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Trenchard Close
KT12
11
£655,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Havers Avenue
KT12
11
£600,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Mayfield Close
KT12
11
£570,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Eastwick Road
KT12
10
£1,438,750
Mostly detached houses
13
Burwood Close
KT12
10
£587,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Onslow Road
KT12
9
£2,675,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Green Lane
KT12
9
£710,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Onslow Road: £2,675,000
Hersham median£580K
Onslow Road£2.7M
Ince Road£2.3M
Eastwick Road£1.4M
Kenwood Drive£1.4M
Woodside Avenue£1.4M
Cheapest streets
Brittain Road: £290,000
Hersham median£580K
Brittain Road£290K
Esher Road£350K
Bell Farm Way£375K
Queens Road£425K
North Road£432K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 9.2 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
Hersham is the 22nd most expensive of 66 towns in Surrey
Hersham is in the middle of Surrey’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 Hersham
What is the average house price in Hersham?
The median home in Hersham sold for £580,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 517 standard sales (£585,750 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £1,140,000, semi-detached houses £600,000, terraced houses £520,000 and flats and maisonettes £302,500.
Are house prices going up in Hersham?
The median was £580,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£580,000), and £585,750 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 Hersham each year?
148 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 217 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Hersham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Onslow Road (KT12, £2,675,000), Ince Road (KT12, £2,290,000) and Eastwick Road (KT12, £1,438,750).
Is Hersham expensive for Surrey?
Hersham is the 22nd 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.