That is the middle of 134 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 6.7 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.
134 homes sold in three years: 49 detached houses, 40 semi-detached houses, 28 terraced houses and 17 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£680K
median sale · 49 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£585K–£785K
Last 12 months
£730K14 sold
Semi-detached houses£450K
median sale · 40 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£370K–£540K
Last 12 months
£515K17 sold
Terraced houses£392K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£370K–£428K
Last 12 months
£390K9 sold
Flats and maisonettes£245K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£267K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses37%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes13%
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 Lingfield’s homes sold for between £370K and £645K
One sale in ten was under £270K and one in ten over £785K. 7% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £487,500, sits in the £400–500K band
134 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £80,350 in 1995 to £540,000 in the last 12 months (£399,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
42 sales in the last 12 months, against 111 in 1999, the busiest year, and 41 in 2022. Sales fell by 28% 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
Lingfield costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Lingfield, 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
£127K
£220K
£388K
£450K
£520K
£675K
£730K
Semi-detached houses
£77K
£140K
£254K
£250K
£336K
£395K
£515K
Terraced houses
£73K
£117K
£215K
£282K
£327K
£354K
£390K
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
152 new homes have been sold in Lingfield since 1995; the share peaked at 45% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Lingfield. 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
Station Road is Lingfield’s busiest street, with 22 sales in three years
8 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Station Road
RH7
22
£367,500
Mixed
2
Lincolns Mead
RH7
12
£466,200
Mixed
3
Mount Pleasant Road
RH7
8
£498,250
Mixed
4
Bakers Lane
RH7
7
£425,000
Mixed
5
Rushfords
RH7
6
£587,500
Mostly detached houses
6
Godstone Road
RH7
6
£550,000
Mixed
7
Drivers Mead
RH7
6
£392,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Newchapel Road
RH7
5
£590,000
Mixed
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
Lingfield is the 39th most expensive of 66 towns in Surrey
Lingfield 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 Lingfield
What is the average house price in Lingfield?
The median home in Lingfield sold for £487,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 134 standard sales (£540,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £680,000, semi-detached houses £450,000, terraced houses £391,750 and flats and maisonettes £244,500.
Are house prices going up in Lingfield?
The median was £445,000 in 2025, down 8% on 2024 (£485,000), and £540,000 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 Lingfield each year?
42 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 55 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Lingfield?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Newchapel Road (RH7, £590,000), Rushfords (RH7, £587,500) and Godstone Road (RH7, £550,000).
Is Lingfield expensive for Surrey?
Lingfield is the 39th 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.