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Tunbridge Wells market report TN1
The TN1 (Tunbridge Wells) 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: 10,101 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TN1 (Tunbridge Wells) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for TN1 (Tunbridge Wells) is £413,000, from 89 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier; the mean is £484,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,040 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,101 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
TN1 is the postcode district covering Royal Tunbridge Wells (town centre) in Tunbridge Wells. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where TN1 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.
Today's TN1 prices, from the sold record
89 sales were registered in TN1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £413,000. The mean works out at £484,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in TN1
A square metre of TN1 home has cost about £5,040 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, TN1 runs 45% above it.
The price of a typical TN1 home, 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 | £413,000 | £413,000 | 89 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 233 |
| 2024 | £352,500 | £374,780 | 222 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 185 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 271 |
| 2021 | £335,000 | £424,153 | 305 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 208 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 195 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 259 |
| 2017 | £281,400 | £383,801 | 232 |
| 2016 | £273,200 | £382,210 | 291 |
| 2015 | £256,200 | £362,011 | 370 |
| 2014 | £233,100 | £330,693 | 348 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 253 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 247 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 286 |
| 2010 | £218,000 | £341,880 | 269 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 218 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 244 |
| 2007 | £198,500 | £336,711 | 513 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 461 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 377 |
| 2004 | £173,200 | £314,565 | 402 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 370 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 537 |
| 2001 | £111,900 | £215,122 | 446 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 368 |
| 1999 | £75,500 | £150,468 | 469 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 396 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 413 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 347 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 277 |
In cash terms the typical TN1 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £413,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 252%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TN1 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 (+29.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.1%). 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) | +18.0% | +15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,207,000 against £267,200 for a flat, 4.5 times the price.
Median by property type, TN1
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 | £1,207,000 (2025) | – | 491 |
| Semi-detached | £630,000 | 17 | 1,541 |
| Terraced | £545,000 | 33 | 2,867 |
| Flats | £250,000 | 35 | 5,198 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 192 sales completed in TN1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 434 sales a year before the financial crisis and 200 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around TN1
The local authority for TN1 is Tunbridge Wells, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,517 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,045 a month here against £2,440 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tunbridge Wells
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £413,000 median sold price, £1,517 a month is £18,204 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How TN1 trades
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
TN1 (Tunbridge Wells): the questions that come up
Is TN1 (Tunbridge Wells) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TN1 (Tunbridge Wells)?
Are property prices falling in TN1 (Tunbridge Wells)?
Are TN1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in TN1 right now
Everything above is what homes in TN1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 34 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 66% above the TN1 median sold price.
9% 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.
- Chandos Road, Tunbridge Wells
- Rochdale Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1, Tunbridge Wells
- St. James Road, Tunbridge Wells
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 TN1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in TN
Real sold prices by size across the TN 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 | — | £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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
TN1 ranks 2 of 40 in the TN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, TN area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TN1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TN1 1 | £690,000 | 25 |
| TN1 2 | £393,200 | 64 |
How TN1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TN7 | £762,500 | +2% |
| TN3 | £691,500 | +5% |
| TN14 | £607,500 | +16% |
| TN13 | £600,000 | +2% |
| TN11 | £585,000 | +11% |
| TN20 | £534,900 | -8% |
| TN32 | £515,000 | +24% |
| TN26 | £506,200 | +19% |
| TN15 | £500,000 | +5% |
| TN19 | £500,000 | +22% |
| TN5 | £488,800 | +0% |
| TN10 | £470,000 | +6% |
| TN18 | £470,000 | +8% |
| TN27 | £460,000 | +0% |
| TN6 | £450,000 | +10% |
| TN16 | £447,500 | +4% |
| TN17 | £429,000 | -11% |
| TN2 | £427,500 | -11% |
| TN36 | £421,200 | +12% |
| TN12 | £414,000 | +0% |
| TN1 (this report) | £413,000 | +23% |
| TN8 | £412,000 | -6% |
| TN4 | £407,500 | +7% |
| TN22 | £405,000 | +0% |
Selling a home in TN1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TN1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TN1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TN1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim TN1.
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The live map plots every individual TN1 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.