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Gatwick market report RH6 8, Horley
The RH6 8 (Gatwick) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,913 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH6 8 (Horley) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for RH6 8 (Horley) is £432,000, from 71 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £428,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,913 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RH6 8 is one sector of RH6 (Horley): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where RH6 8 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 buyers actually paid in RH6 8
The 2026 median for RH6 8 is £432,000, taken from 71 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £428,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in RH6 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of RH6 8 sales average about £4,830 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RH6 8 sits 52% above the national market.
A typical RH6 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £432,000 | £432,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £433,800 | £444,173 | 206 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 199 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 185 |
| 2022 | £437,600 | £513,136 | 360 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 367 |
| 2020 | £385,000 | £499,545 | 199 |
| 2019 | £408,000 | £534,790 | 349 |
| 2018 | £386,000 | £514,545 | 315 |
| 2017 | £367,500 | £501,233 | 280 |
| 2016 | £355,000 | £496,649 | 107 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 115 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 128 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 131 |
| 2012 | £225,500 | £331,908 | 127 |
| 2011 | £231,200 | £349,023 | 120 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 107 |
| 2009 | £216,200 | £347,543 | 80 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 112 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 205 |
| 2006 | £215,500 | £374,080 | 180 |
| 2005 | £199,500 | £355,030 | 170 |
| 2004 | £197,000 | £357,790 | 157 |
| 2003 | £181,500 | £334,367 | 202 |
| 2002 | £157,000 | £295,394 | 197 |
| 2001 | £143,500 | £275,871 | 180 |
| 2000 | £123,500 | £242,369 | 174 |
| 1999 | £104,000 | £207,267 | 209 |
| 1998 | £95,200 | £192,168 | 188 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 191 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 177 |
| 1995 | £69,200 | £150,430 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical RH6 8 home went from £69,200 in 1995 to £432,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 187%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RH6 8 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 (+18.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in RH6 8
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 71 sales completed in RH6 8. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 204 sales a year over the last five years against 183 before the financial crisis. 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 homes rent for around RH6 8
For renting purposes RH6 8 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 £432,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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: RH6 8 (Gatwick)
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Where do RH6 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in RH6 now
The live side of the market holds 67 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH6 district, not just RH6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 RH6 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
Real sold prices by size across the RH area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
RH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RH6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RH6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH6 0 | £486,500 | 14 |
| RH6 7 | £422,500 | 38 |
| RH6 9 | £430,000 | 75 |
Zoom out to the full RH6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RH6 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH6 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH6 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH6 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RH6 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RH6 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RH6 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.