That is the middle of 438 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 6.6 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.
438 homes sold in three years: 118 detached houses, 130 semi-detached houses, 103 terraced houses and 87 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£850K
median sale · 118 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£690K–£1.3M
Last 12 months
£834K29 sold
Semi-detached houses£580K
median sale · 130 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£480K–£745K
Last 12 months
£550K38 sold
Terraced houses£470K
median sale · 103 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£415K–£553K
Last 12 months
£490K29 sold
Flats and maisonettes£367K
median sale · 87 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£293K–£478K
Last 12 months
£393K32 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 30% of sales
Detached houses27%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes20%
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 Oxted’s homes sold for between £430K and £760K
One sale in ten was under £315K and one in ten over £1M. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £560,000, sits in the £500–750K band
438 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £82,000 in 1995 to £541,250 in the last 12 months (£435,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
128 sales in the last 12 months, against 260 in 2006, the busiest year, and 113 in 2008. Sales fell by 37% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 19%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 86% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Oxted costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Oxted, 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
£173K
£320K
£474K
£727K
£735K
£865K
£834K
Semi-detached houses
£78K
£140K
£268K
£288K
£460K
£475K
£550K
Terraced houses
£71K
£130K
£220K
£240K
£380K
£410K
£490K
Flats and maisonettes
£58K
£110K
£198K
£250K
£275K
£340K
£393K
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: 1% of sales in the last 12 months, after 28% in 2016
518 new homes have been sold in Oxted since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 2016.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
20% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.3% sold leasehold in Oxted. 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
Silkham Road is Oxted’s busiest street, with 17 sales in three years
33 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 9 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
Silkham Road
RH8
17
£490,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Church Lane
RH8
17
£443,950
Mostly flats
3
Hurst Green Road
RH8
13
£745,000
Mixed
4
Pollards Oak Road
RH8
13
£490,000
Mixed
5
Greenacres
RH8
13
£441,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Home Park
RH8
13
£435,000
Mixed
7
Central Way
RH8
11
£650,000
Mixed
8
High Street
RH8
11
£338,000
Mixed
9
Barnfield Way
RH8
10
£297,500
Mostly terraced houses
10
Rockfield Road
RH8
9
£1,790,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Orchard Way
RH8
9
£771,700
Mostly detached houses
12
Gordons Way
RH8
9
£660,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Eden Place
RH8
9
£615,000
Mostly flats
14
Hoskins Road
RH8
9
£450,000
Mostly flats
15
Mill Lane
RH8
9
£400,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Rockfield Road: £1,790,000
Oxted median£560K
Rockfield Road£1.8M
Oast Road£1.1M
Bluehouse Lane£1M
Barrow Green Road£850K
Lankester Square£815K
Cheapest streets
Beatrice Road: £212,500
Oxted median£560K
Beatrice Road£213K
Barnfield Way£298K
Huxley Drive£315K
Tippett Lane£325K
High Street£338K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.4 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
Oxted is the 23rd most expensive of 66 towns in Surrey
Oxted 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 Oxted
What is the average house price in Oxted?
The median home in Oxted sold for £560,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 438 standard sales (£541,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £850,125, semi-detached houses £580,000, terraced houses £470,000 and flats and maisonettes £366,500.
Are house prices going up in Oxted?
The median was £580,000 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£551,000), and £541,250 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 Oxted each year?
128 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 184 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Oxted?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Rockfield Road (RH8, £1,790,000), Oast Road (RH8, £1,082,500) and Bluehouse Lane (RH8, £1,018,100).
Is Oxted expensive for Surrey?
Oxted is the 23rd 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.