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Merstham market report RH1 6, Redhill
The standing RH1 6 (Merstham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,948 HM Land Registry entries for RH1 6 (Redhill), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 87 registered 2026 sales put the RH1 6 (Redhill) median at £420,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £441,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,090 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,948 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RH1 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RH1 (Redhill). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where RH1 6 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What RH1 6 homes really sell for
Across 87 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RH1 6 home went for £420,000. The mean is £441,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in RH1 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RH1 6 costs about £5,090 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RH1 6 47% above the national figure.
The price of a typical RH1 6 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 87 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 224 |
| 2024 | £427,500 | £454,520 | 170 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 163 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 229 |
| 2021 | £405,000 | £512,782 | 312 |
| 2020 | £361,500 | £469,054 | 186 |
| 2019 | £333,500 | £437,139 | 172 |
| 2018 | £355,000 | £473,222 | 205 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 197 |
| 2016 | £321,000 | £449,082 | 296 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 314 |
| 2014 | £262,200 | £371,977 | 302 |
| 2013 | £239,500 | £344,617 | 233 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 197 |
| 2011 | £229,800 | £346,910 | 226 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 211 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 167 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 200 |
| 2007 | £214,500 | £363,852 | 383 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 479 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 376 |
| 2004 | £192,500 | £349,618 | 334 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 345 |
| 2002 | £161,200 | £303,296 | 447 |
| 2001 | £142,500 | £273,949 | 417 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 455 |
| 1999 | £98,000 | £195,309 | 351 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 341 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 360 |
| 1996 | £73,400 | £154,797 | 322 |
| 1995 | £70,500 | £153,256 | 247 |
In cash terms the typical RH1 6 home went from £70,500 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RH1 6 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+37.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 87 RH1 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 405 sales a year before the financial crisis and 175 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market RH1 6 is
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What tenants pay around RH1 6
For renting purposes RH1 6 sits in Reigate and Banstead. The ONS average private rent there is £1,636 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,138 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,556 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Reigate and Banstead
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,636 a month is £19,632 a year, which against the £420,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: RH1 6 (Merstham)
How much did a house sell for in RH1 6 (Merstham)?
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Will RH1 6 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
RH1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 190 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH1 district, not just RH1 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every RH1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in RH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RH area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £450,000 | £610,000 (+36%) | £870,000 (+43%) | £1,237,500 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £405,000 (+25%) | £475,000 (+17%) | £606,500 (+28%) | £882,500 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £315,000 | £365,000 (+16%) | £410,000 (+12%) | £530,000 (+29%) | £720,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £206,436 | £270,000 (+31%) | £395,000 (+46%) | £545,000 (+38%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the RH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RH1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RH1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH1 1 | £265,000 | 23 |
| RH1 2 | £440,000 | 43 |
| RH1 3 | £422,500 | 45 |
| RH1 4 | £502,500 | 38 |
| RH1 5 | £480,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full RH1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RH1 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH1 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH1 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH1 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RH1 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RH1 6.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RH1 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual RH1 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.