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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 410,661 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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for the TN postcode area (Tonbridge) is £381,000, from 4,611 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £451,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,380 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 410,661 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.
What a home in TN sells for
4,611 sales were registered in TN in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £381,000. The mean works out at £451,700, 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 £4,380 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £381,000 | £381,000 | 4,611 |
| 2025 | £390,100 | £399,428 | 10,654 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 10,265 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 9,258 |
| 2022 | £397,500 | £466,114 | 13,033 |
| 2021 | £372,000 | £471,000 | 16,697 |
| 2020 | £351,000 | £455,430 | 11,005 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 10,979 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 11,664 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 12,520 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 13,175 |
| 2015 | £268,000 | £378,684 | 13,579 |
| 2014 | £247,000 | £350,413 | 13,466 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 11,477 |
| 2012 | £228,000 | £335,588 | 9,905 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 10,096 |
| 2010 | £229,800 | £360,386 | 9,925 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 9,341 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 8,666 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 17,270 |
| 2006 | £206,500 | £358,458 | 17,575 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 13,885 |
| 2004 | £184,500 | £335,088 | 16,463 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 15,137 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 18,319 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 16,845 |
| 2000 | £107,000 | £209,988 | 14,632 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 16,189 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 14,203 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 15,389 |
| 1996 | £69,600 | £146,783 | 13,402 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 11,036 |
In cash terms the typical TN home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £381,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 168%: 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.
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 £555,000 against £205,000 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.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £555,000 | 1,470 | 133,462 |
| Semi-detached | £389,000 | 1,325 | 105,392 |
| Terraced | £325,000 | 1,065 | 94,205 |
| Flats | £205,000 | 751 | 77,602 |
What TN has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 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.
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.
TN recorded 8,140 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 9,564 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.
Against the £381,000 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)?
Are property prices falling in TN (Tonbridge)?
Is TN (Tonbridge) a good place to buy a house?
Are TN prices heading up or down?
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 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: 1,005 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% above the TN median sold price.
Set against 8,140 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 1,005 homes on the market here are roughly 6 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
21% 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.
- River House, Egerton Road, Charing Heath, Charing Heath
- Hazlemere, Bowl Road, Charing, Charing
- Yeavering Bell, Pluckley Road, Charing, Charing
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.
The TN sales calendar
Take the 59,907 TN sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 11.4% of the total, April trails with 6.6%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4,142 | 6.9% |
| February | 4,647 | 7.8% |
| March | 6,849 | 11.4% |
| April | 3,964 | 6.6% |
| May | 4,292 | 7.2% |
| June | 6,371 | 10.6% |
| July | 4,463 | 7.4% |
| August | 5,158 | 8.6% |
| September | 5,729 | 9.6% |
| October | 4,850 | 8.1% |
| November | 4,904 | 8.2% |
| December | 4,538 | 7.6% |
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.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £356,000 | £412,500 (+16%) | £480,000 (+16%) | £610,000 (+27%) | £841,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £285,250 | £335,000 (+17%) | £387,500 (+16%) | £500,000 (+29%) | £649,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £255,000 | £300,000 (+18%) | £335,000 (+12%) | £430,000 (+28%) | £567,500 (+32%) |
| Flat | £165,000 | £220,000 (+33%) | £299,225 (+36%) | £397,475 (+33%) | £550,000 (+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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, TN area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
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.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN3 Langton Green, Groombridge | £691,500 | +5% | 61 |
| TN7 Coleman's Hatch, Hartfield | £650,000 | -13% | 6 |
| TN13 Sevenoaks, Riverhead | £612,500 | +4% | 154 |
| TN14 Cudham, Knockholt | £594,000 | +13% | 118 |
| TN11 Penshurst, Hildenborough | £575,000 | +10% | 83 |
| TN20 Five Ashes | £530,000 | -9% | 28 |
| TN32 Robertsbridge, Mountfield | £515,000 | +24% | 19 |
| TN15 Kemsing, Ightham | £500,000 | +5% | 153 |
| TN19 Etchingham, Burwash | £500,000 | +22% | 31 |
| TN5 Wadhurst, Ticehurst | £490,000 | +0% | 43 |
| TN26 Bethersden, Hamstreet | £472,500 | +11% | 54 |
| TN10 Tonbridge (north including Higham Wood) | £456,000 | +3% | 72 |
| TN16 Westerham, Biggin Hill | £455,000 | +6% | 111 |
| TN18 Hawkhurst, Sandhurst | £452,500 | +4% | 37 |
| TN6 Black Hill, Boarshead | £450,000 | +10% | 173 |
| TN27 Headcorn, Biddenden | £450,000 | -2% | 83 |
| TN17 Cranbrook, Goudhurst | £437,500 | -9% | 68 |
| TN2 Royal Tunbridge Wells (south and east), Pembury | £430,000 | -10% | 183 |
| TN8 Crockham Hill, Edenbridge | £430,000 | -2% | 81 |
| TN36 Winchelsea, Icklesham | £421,200 | +12% | 12 |
| TN12 Paddock Wood, Staplehurst | £420,000 | +1% | 192 |
| TN22 Buxted, Isfield | £405,000 | +0% | 219 |
| TN25 Challock, Wye | £405,000 | +15% | 140 |
| TN4 Royal Tunbridge Wells (north), Rusthall | £401,200 | +5% | 206 |
| TN30 Tenterden, Wittersham | £397,500 | -5% | 100 |
| TN31 Rye, Camber | £397,500 | +5% | 89 |
| TN1 Royal Tunbridge Wells (town centre) | £390,000 | +16% | 101 |
| TN21 Heathfield, Broad Oak | £380,000 | +1% | 117 |
| TN33 Battle | £375,000 | -14% | 83 |
| TN9 Tonbridge (town centre and south) | £365,000 | +4% | 136 |
| TN39 Bexhill-on-Sea, Cooden | £365,000 | +8% | 229 |
| TN28 New Romney, Greatstone-on-Sea | £340,000 | +1% | 76 |
| TN35 Hastings, Pett | £335,000 | +9% | 106 |
| TN24 Willesborough, Kennington | £300,000 | +0% | 208 |
| TN23 Ashford (town centre), Kingsnorth | £290,000 | +5% | 321 |
| TN37 St Leonards-on-Sea | £285,000 | +16% | 136 |
| TN29 Lydd, Dymchurch | £283,800 | -5% | 76 |
| TN34 Hastings town centre | £280,000 | -5% | 197 |
| TN38 St Leonards-on-Sea, Silverhill | £280,000 | +4% | 161 |
| TN40 Bexhill-on-Sea, Pebsham | £275,000 | +10% | 148 |
Thinking of selling in TN? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TN, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TN's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TN sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual TN sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.