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Pembury market report TN2 5, Tunbridge Wells
The TN2 5 (Pembury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,356 HM Land Registry entries for TN2 5 (Tunbridge Wells), 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 42 registered 2026 sales put the TN2 5 (Tunbridge Wells) median at £526,000, down 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £559,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,630 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,356 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like TN2 5 is a single group of streets within TN2 (Tunbridge Wells), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where TN2 5 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 TN2 5 sells for
Across 42 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) TN2 5 home went for £526,000. The mean is £559,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in TN2 5
By floor space, homes in TN2 5 have sold for about £5,630 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TN2 5 trades 85% above the country as a whole.
TN2 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £526,000 | £526,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £580,000 | £593,870 | 151 |
| 2024 | £515,000 | £547,551 | 155 |
| 2023 | £642,500 | £705,951 | 201 |
| 2022 | £600,000 | £703,568 | 287 |
| 2021 | £571,200 | £723,213 | 398 |
| 2020 | £585,000 | £759,050 | 201 |
| 2019 | £495,000 | £648,827 | 163 |
| 2018 | £485,000 | £646,514 | 168 |
| 2017 | £505,000 | £688,769 | 139 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 191 |
| 2015 | £420,000 | £593,460 | 165 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 178 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 198 |
| 2012 | £350,000 | £515,156 | 159 |
| 2011 | £340,000 | £513,269 | 155 |
| 2010 | £333,800 | £523,484 | 152 |
| 2009 | £290,000 | £466,177 | 160 |
| 2008 | £269,000 | £440,948 | 148 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 336 |
| 2006 | £285,500 | £495,592 | 281 |
| 2005 | £269,800 | £480,135 | 201 |
| 2004 | £249,500 | £453,141 | 244 |
| 2003 | £230,000 | £423,716 | 189 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 234 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 225 |
| 2000 | £168,000 | £329,700 | 217 |
| 1999 | £137,600 | £274,230 | 258 |
| 1998 | £116,000 | £234,154 | 201 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 220 |
| 1996 | £95,000 | £200,351 | 196 |
| 1995 | £85,500 | £185,864 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical TN2 5 home went from £85,500 in 1995 to £526,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 183%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TN2 5 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 2015 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−19.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.3% | −11.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in TN2 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of TN2 5
For renting purposes TN2 5 sits in Tunbridge Wells. The ONS average private rent there is £1,517 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,517 a month is £18,204 a year, which against the £526,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
The shape of the TN2 5 market
This is a thin market: 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the TN2 district median, TN2 5 sits 23% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
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What happens to TN2 5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
On the market in TN2 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 55 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TN2 district, not just TN2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every TN2 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the TN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in TN2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TN2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TN2 3 | £375,000 | 59 |
| TN2 4 | £417,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full TN2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TN2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in TN2 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TN2 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the TN2 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TN2 5 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 TN2 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TN2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TN2 5 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.
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.