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Tonbridge market report TN

The TN (Tonbridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 409,698 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the TN postcode area (Tonbridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.

Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the 2026 median for the TN postcode area (Tonbridge) is £382,500, from 3,847 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £446,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,370 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 409,698 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

The TN postcode area centred on Tonbridge covers 40 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.

Where TN 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.

£382,500median sold price, 2026
£4,370/m²average price per m², last 5 years
+3%cash move in five years
8,194homes sold, last 12 months
4.8%gross yield, estimated

What a home in TN sells for

3,847 sales were registered in TN in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £382,500. The mean works out at £446,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.

House prices per square metre in TN

A square metre of TN home has cost about £4,370 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TN trades 34% above the country as a whole.

A typical TN home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)

Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.

Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
£125k£250k£375k£500k1995200020052010201520202026 1995: £65,500 at the time · £142,387 in today's money · 11,036 sales1996: £69,600 at the time · £146,783 in today's money · 13,402 sales1997: £75,000 at the time · £153,810 in today's money · 15,389 sales1998: £82,000 at the time · £165,523 in today's money · 14,203 sales1999: £90,000 at the time · £179,365 in today's money · 16,189 sales2000: £107,000 at the time · £209,988 in today's money · 14,632 sales2001: £120,000 at the time · £230,694 in today's money · 16,845 sales2002: £143,000 at the time · £269,053 in today's money · 18,319 sales2003: £165,000 at the time · £303,970 in today's money · 15,137 sales2004: £184,500 at the time · £335,088 in today's money · 16,463 sales2005: £190,000 at the time · £338,123 in today's money · 13,885 sales2006: £206,500 at the time · £358,458 in today's money · 17,574 sales2007: £220,000 at the time · £373,181 in today's money · 17,270 sales2008: £215,000 at the time · £352,430 in today's money · 8,666 sales2009: £207,000 at the time · £332,754 in today's money · 9,341 sales2010: £229,800 at the time · £360,386 in today's money · 9,925 sales2011: £220,000 at the time · £332,115 in today's money · 10,096 sales2012: £228,000 at the time · £335,588 in today's money · 9,905 sales2013: £235,000 at the time · £338,142 in today's money · 11,477 sales2014: £247,000 at the time · £350,413 in today's money · 13,466 sales2015: £268,000 at the time · £378,684 in today's money · 13,580 sales2016: £290,000 at the time · £405,713 in today's money · 13,174 sales2017: £305,000 at the time · £415,989 in today's money · 12,520 sales2018: £320,000 at the time · £426,566 in today's money · 11,664 sales2019: £325,000 at the time · £425,997 in today's money · 10,979 sales2020: £351,000 at the time · £455,430 in today's money · 11,006 sales2021: £372,000 at the time · £471,000 in today's money · 16,696 sales2022: £397,600 at the time · £466,231 in today's money · 13,029 sales2023: £390,000 at the time · £428,515 in today's money · 9,259 sales2024: £385,000 at the time · £409,334 in today's money · 10,264 sales2025: £390,100 at the time · £399,428 in today's money · 10,460 sales2026: £382,500 at the time · £382,500 in today's money · 3,847 sales
See this chart as a table
YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2026£382,500£382,5003,847
2025£390,100£399,42810,460
2024£385,000£409,33410,264
2023£390,000£428,5159,259
2022£397,600£466,23113,029
2021£372,000£471,00016,696
2020£351,000£455,43011,006
2019£325,000£425,99710,979
2018£320,000£426,56611,664
2017£305,000£415,98912,520
2016£290,000£405,71313,174
2015£268,000£378,68413,580
2014£247,000£350,41313,466
2013£235,000£338,14211,477
2012£228,000£335,5889,905
2011£220,000£332,11510,096
2010£229,800£360,3869,925
2009£207,000£332,7549,341
2008£215,000£352,4308,666
2007£220,000£373,18117,270
2006£206,500£358,45817,574
2005£190,000£338,12313,885
2004£184,500£335,08816,463
2003£165,000£303,97015,137
2002£143,000£269,05318,319
2001£120,000£230,69416,845
2000£107,000£209,98814,632
1999£90,000£179,36516,189
1998£82,000£165,52314,203
1997£75,000£153,81015,389
1996£69,600£146,78313,402
1995£65,500£142,38711,036

In cash terms the typical TN home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 169%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

Year-on-year change in the TN median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+25% -5% 0% 1996 · +6.3% on the year before1997 · +7.8% on the year before1998 · +9.3% on the year before1999 · +9.8% on the year before2000 · +18.9% on the year before2001 · +12.1% on the year before2002 · +19.2% on the year before2003 · +15.4% on the year before2004 · +11.8% on the year before2005 · +3.0% on the year before2006 · +8.7% on the year before2007 · +6.5% on the year before2008 · −2.3% on the year before2009 · −3.7% on the year before2010 · +11.0% on the year before2011 · −4.3% on the year before2012 · +3.6% on the year before2013 · +3.1% on the year before2014 · +5.1% on the year before2015 · +8.5% on the year before2016 · +8.2% on the year before2017 · +5.2% on the year before2018 · +4.9% on the year before2019 · +1.6% on the year before2020 · +8.0% on the year before2021 · +6.0% on the year before2022 · +6.9% on the year before2023 · −1.9% on the year before2024 · −1.3% on the year before2025 · +1.3% on the year before2026 · −1.9% on the year before200020052010201520202026

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+19.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−4.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £550,000 against £203,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.

Median by property type, TN

One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.

DetachedSemi-detachedTerracedFlats
£250k£500k£750k£1.00M1995200020052010201520202026 1995: Detached £109,000 · Semi-detached £64,000 · Terraced £51,000 · Flats £37,0001996: Detached £111,500 · Semi-detached £66,800 · Terraced £52,500 · Flats £37,0001997: Detached £127,000 · Semi-detached £72,200 · Terraced £58,000 · Flats £41,0001998: Detached £141,500 · Semi-detached £81,000 · Terraced £65,000 · Flats £43,8001999: Detached £152,500 · Semi-detached £90,000 · Terraced £72,000 · Flats £48,5002000: Detached £175,000 · Semi-detached £108,000 · Terraced £83,000 · Flats £55,0002001: Detached £190,000 · Semi-detached £122,000 · Terraced £92,000 · Flats £63,0002002: Detached £228,500 · Semi-detached £143,000 · Terraced £115,200 · Flats £80,0002003: Detached £265,000 · Semi-detached £170,000 · Terraced £138,000 · Flats £95,0002004: Detached £290,000 · Semi-detached £186,000 · Terraced £158,000 · Flats £119,0002005: Detached £303,000 · Semi-detached £195,000 · Terraced £160,000 · Flats £123,0002006: Detached £325,000 · Semi-detached £210,000 · Terraced £170,000 · Flats £128,0002007: Detached £345,000 · Semi-detached £229,000 · Terraced £186,000 · Flats £140,0002008: Detached £340,000 · Semi-detached £220,000 · Terraced £185,000 · Flats £142,5002009: Detached £315,000 · Semi-detached £200,000 · Terraced £170,000 · Flats £130,0002010: Detached £350,000 · Semi-detached £225,000 · Terraced £185,000 · Flats £130,0002011: Detached £340,000 · Semi-detached £218,200 · Terraced £182,500 · Flats £130,0002012: Detached £345,000 · Semi-detached £225,000 · Terraced £185,000 · Flats £133,0002013: Detached £350,000 · Semi-detached £232,000 · Terraced £192,000 · Flats £140,0002014: Detached £380,000 · Semi-detached £250,000 · Terraced £209,500 · Flats £150,0002015: Detached £399,000 · Semi-detached £274,700 · Terraced £232,800 · Flats £157,0002016: Detached £435,000 · Semi-detached £300,000 · Terraced £252,000 · Flats £164,5002017: Detached £460,000 · Semi-detached £308,000 · Terraced £265,000 · Flats £172,0002018: Detached £480,000 · Semi-detached £324,000 · Terraced £270,000 · Flats £185,0002019: Detached £480,000 · Semi-detached £325,000 · Terraced £270,000 · Flats £184,0002020: Detached £500,000 · Semi-detached £345,000 · Terraced £285,000 · Flats £190,0002021: Detached £545,000 · Semi-detached £363,000 · Terraced £307,000 · Flats £205,0002022: Detached £595,000 · Semi-detached £400,000 · Terraced £333,000 · Flats £216,0002023: Detached £600,000 · Semi-detached £390,000 · Terraced £325,000 · Flats £210,0002024: Detached £567,500 · Semi-detached £388,000 · Terraced £325,000 · Flats £215,0002025: Detached £585,000 · Semi-detached £390,000 · Terraced £325,000 · Flats £210,0002026: Detached £550,000 · Semi-detached £390,000 · Terraced £320,000 · Flats £203,500
TypeMedian (2026)Sales that yearAll-time sales
Detached£550,0001,214133,137
Semi-detached£390,0001,115105,149
Terraced£320,00088993,995
Flats£203,50062977,417

What TN has returned, per year

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)−1.9%−4.2%
5 years (since 2021)+0.6%−4.1%
10 years (since 2016)+2.8%−0.6%
20 years (since 2006)+3.1%+0.3%

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.

The turnover behind the prices

How many homes change hands

Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.

5,00010k15k20k 1995: 11,036 sales1996: 13,402 sales1997: 15,389 sales1998: 14,203 sales1999: 16,189 sales2000: 14,632 sales2001: 16,845 sales2002: 18,319 sales2003: 15,137 sales2004: 16,463 sales2005: 13,885 sales2006: 17,574 sales2007: 17,270 sales2008: 8,666 sales2009: 9,341 sales2010: 9,925 sales2011: 10,096 sales2012: 9,905 sales2013: 11,477 sales2014: 13,466 sales2015: 13,580 sales2016: 13,174 sales2017: 12,520 sales2018: 11,664 sales2019: 10,979 sales2020: 11,006 sales2021: 16,696 sales2022: 13,029 sales2023: 9,259 sales2024: 10,264 sales2025: 10,460 sales2026: 3,847 sales1995200020052010201520202026

The last five years, month by month

Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.

5001,0001,5002,000 August 2021 · 1,014 sales registeredSeptember 2021 · 1,939 sales registeredOctober 2021 · 739 sales registeredNovember 2021 · 1,023 sales registeredDecember 2021 · 1,099 sales registeredJanuary 2022 · 863 sales registeredFebruary 2022 · 969 sales registeredMarch 2022 · 1,206 sales registeredApril 2022 · 994 sales registeredMay 2022 · 963 sales registeredJune 2022 · 1,128 sales registeredJuly 2022 · 1,140 sales registeredAugust 2022 · 1,206 sales registeredSeptember 2022 · 1,202 sales registeredOctober 2022 · 1,101 sales registeredNovember 2022 · 1,134 sales registeredDecember 2022 · 1,123 sales registeredJanuary 2023 · 718 sales registeredFebruary 2023 · 692 sales registeredMarch 2023 · 820 sales registeredApril 2023 · 605 sales registeredMay 2023 · 658 sales registeredJune 2023 · 799 sales registeredJuly 2023 · 776 sales registeredAugust 2023 · 891 sales registeredSeptember 2023 · 885 sales registeredOctober 2023 · 878 sales registeredNovember 2023 · 840 sales registeredDecember 2023 · 697 sales registeredJanuary 2024 · 611 sales registeredFebruary 2024 · 676 sales registeredMarch 2024 · 781 sales registeredApril 2024 · 710 sales registeredMay 2024 · 884 sales registeredJune 2024 · 746 sales registeredJuly 2024 · 978 sales registeredAugust 2024 · 1,048 sales registeredSeptember 2024 · 866 sales registeredOctober 2024 · 1,076 sales registeredNovember 2024 · 1,034 sales registeredDecember 2024 · 854 sales registeredJanuary 2025 · 787 sales registeredFebruary 2025 · 838 sales registeredMarch 2025 · 1,772 sales registeredApril 2025 · 368 sales registeredMay 2025 · 664 sales registeredJune 2025 · 727 sales registeredJuly 2025 · 957 sales registeredAugust 2025 · 991 sales registeredSeptember 2025 · 820 sales registeredOctober 2025 · 990 sales registeredNovember 2025 · 797 sales registeredDecember 2025 · 749 sales registeredJanuary 2026 · 598 sales registeredFebruary 2026 · 605 sales registeredMarch 2026 · 666 sales registeredApril 2026 · 533 sales registeredMay 2026 · 555 sales registeredJune 2026 · 559 sales registeredJuly 2026 · 331 sales registered

TN recorded 8,194 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 16,266 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9,372 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.

Rents around TN

TN falls under Tunbridge Wells, the local authority covering most of the TN area (parts fall under Rother and Wealden, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,517 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,045 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,440, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

Average monthly rent by size, Tunbridge Wells

ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.

1 bed: £1,045 a month£1,0451 bed2 bed: £1,391 a month£1,3912 bed3 bed: £1,682 a month£1,6823 bed4+ bed: £2,440 a month£2,4404+ bed

Against the £382,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,517 a month (£18,204 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.

Asked and answered: TN (Tonbridge)

How much did a house sell for in TN (Tonbridge)?
Land Registry recorded 3,847 sales in TN (Tonbridge) in 2026, with a median sold price of £382,500. Every one is free to view at its exact address on the HomesIndex map.
Are property prices falling in TN (Tonbridge)?
In TN (Tonbridge) the median moved down 2% year on year; over five years it is up 3%. The full year-by-year table since 1995 is on this page.
Is TN (Tonbridge) a good place to buy a house?
TN (Tonbridge) sold prices are up 3% over five years. This report weighs growth, affordability and volume against neighbouring areas using only recorded sales.

Are TN prices heading up or down?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

TN's current homes for sale

Everything above is what homes in TN sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 2,034 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 44% above the TN median sold price.

£550,000Typical asking price now
£382,500Median sold price
541 below what sold nearby847 in line with nearby sales379 above nearby sales182 well above nearby sales

28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.

The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.

See every TN 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.

Bedroom by bedroom: TN prices by size

The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the TN area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.

Type1 bed2 bed3 bed4 bed5 bed
Detached£375,000£520,000 (+39%)£789,950 (+52%)£1,140,000 (+44%)
Semi-detached£280,000£340,000 (+21%)£415,000 (+22%)£580,000 (+40%)£750,000 (+29%)
Terraced£265,000£310,000 (+17%)£358,115 (+16%)£463,497 (+29%)£703,750 (+52%)
Flat£175,000£240,000 (+37%)£350,000 (+46%)£570,000 (+63%)

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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the TN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

District by district

Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable TN district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.

DistrictMedian (2026)5-yearSales
TN7 Coleman's Hatch, Hartfield£762,500+2%4
TN3 Langton Green, Groombridge£691,500+5%57
TN14 Cudham, Knockholt£607,500+16%92
TN13 Sevenoaks, Riverhead£600,000+2%121
TN11 Penshurst, Hildenborough£585,000+11%65
TN20 Five Ashes£534,900-8%21
TN32 Robertsbridge, Mountfield£515,000+24%15
TN26 Bethersden, Hamstreet£506,200+19%42
TN15 Kemsing, Ightham£500,000+5%125
TN19 Etchingham, Burwash£500,000+22%29
TN5 Wadhurst, Ticehurst£488,800+0%36
TN10 Tonbridge (north including Higham Wood)£470,000+6%58
TN18 Hawkhurst, Sandhurst£470,000+8%32
TN27 Headcorn, Biddenden£460,000+0%70
TN6 Black Hill, Boarshead£450,000+10%153
TN16 Westerham, Biggin Hill£447,500+4%88
TN17 Cranbrook, Goudhurst£429,000-11%54
TN2 Royal Tunbridge Wells (south and east), Pembury£427,500-11%146
TN36 Winchelsea, Icklesham£421,200+12%10
TN12 Paddock Wood, Staplehurst£414,000+0%167
TN1 Royal Tunbridge Wells (town centre)£413,000+23%89
TN8 Crockham Hill, Edenbridge£412,000-6%67
TN4 Royal Tunbridge Wells (north), Rusthall£407,500+7%168
TN22 Buxted, Isfield£405,000+0%177
TN25 Challock, Wye£399,000+14%114
TN31 Rye, Camber£395,000+4%83
TN30 Tenterden, Wittersham£392,500-6%82
TN21 Heathfield, Broad Oak£382,500+2%99
TN39 Bexhill-on-Sea, Cooden£375,000+11%185
TN9 Tonbridge (town centre and south)£367,500+5%115
TN33 Battle£363,000-17%65
TN28 New Romney, Greatstone-on-Sea£335,000-1%67
TN35 Hastings, Pett£335,000+9%97
TN23 Ashford (town centre), Kingsnorth£300,000+9%261
TN24 Willesborough, Kennington£300,000+0%180
TN29 Lydd, Dymchurch£290,000-3%65
TN37 St Leonards-on-Sea£290,000+18%111
TN38 St Leonards-on-Sea, Silverhill£290,000+7%139
TN34 Hastings town centre£275,000-6%168
TN40 Bexhill-on-Sea, Pebsham£275,000+10%130

Thinking of selling in TN? Get a rough value first

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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.