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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/south-east

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House prices in the South East

Homes in the South East sold for a median of £383,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 238,116 standard sales.

That makes the South East the second most expensive of the nine English regions and Wales, 30% above the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£383,000238,116 standard sales
Middle half of prices£282,000 to £535,000
Change since 2016+30%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was Elmbridge, at £650,000, and the cheapest was Gosport, at £255,000. The dearest median is 2.5 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were Mole Valley and Waverley, and the next cheapest Portsmouth, Southampton and Isle of Wight.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

33 of the 64 council areas had a median above £383,000, the figure for the South East as a whole. The most sales were in Buckinghamshire (13,845), Brighton and Hove (6,857), Milton Keynes (6,657), Medway (6,467) and Arun (5,297).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. Elmbridge3,822 sales£650,000£6,657+1%
  2. Mole Valley2,171 sales£580,000£5,772+1%
  3. Waverley3,633 sales£550,000£5,419+1%
  4. Epsom and Ewell1,899 sales£545,000£5,655+3%
  5. Windsor and Maidenhead3,664 sales£535,000£5,463+3%
  6. Guildford3,643 sales£500,000£5,867+1%
  7. Tandridge2,178 sales£492,000£5,000+5%
  8. Wokingham4,695 sales£488,000£5,158+1%
  9. Sevenoaks3,024 sales£482,500£5,122+6%
  10. Reigate and Banstead4,032 sales£480,000£5,173−4%
  11. Surrey Heath2,482 sales£479,000£4,878+1%
  12. Spelthorne2,391 sales£461,000£5,448+3%
  13. Buckinghamshire13,845 sales£460,000£4,902+3%
  14. Hart2,846 sales£460,000£5,021−1%
  15. Winchester3,515 sales£460,000£4,634−1%
  16. Runnymede2,141 sales£456,000£5,5080%
  17. Oxford2,516 sales£450,000£5,288−2%
  18. South Oxfordshire4,023 sales£450,000£4,965+2%
  19. Woking2,682 sales£450,000£5,1880%
  20. Mid Sussex4,648 sales£440,000£4,776+3%
  21. Tunbridge Wells3,146 sales£435,000£4,775+4%
  22. Horsham4,143 sales£433,500£4,861−1%
  23. Chichester3,239 sales£422,500£4,587+4%
  24. East Hampshire3,524 sales£422,000£4,333−1%
  25. Bracknell Forest3,330 sales£420,000£4,854+5%
  26. Brighton and Hove6,857 sales£418,000£5,190+1%
  27. Tonbridge and Malling3,697 sales£415,000£4,672+2%
  28. Vale of White Horse4,185 sales£397,500£4,2360%
  29. West Berkshire4,267 sales£397,500£4,392+1%
  30. Slough1,759 sales£395,000£5,025+3%
  31. West Oxfordshire3,021 sales£395,000£4,472+7%
  32. New Forest4,887 sales£384,000£4,388−1%
  33. Lewes2,992 sales£383,500£4,290−2%
  34. Wealden4,913 sales£382,500£4,011−1%
  35. Adur1,672 sales£378,000£4,4190%
  36. Dartford2,870 sales£375,500£4,493+9%
  37. Basingstoke and Deane4,888 sales£372,500£4,219+3%
  38. Maidstone4,608 sales£367,500£4,322+3%
  39. Test Valley3,533 sales£365,000£4,234+2%
  40. Rushmoor2,441 sales£364,500£4,344+1%
  41. Gravesham2,146 sales£361,500£4,234+6%
  42. Rother2,654 sales£358,500£3,624−3%
  43. Cherwell4,242 sales£355,500£4,070+3%
  44. Crawley2,187 sales£350,000£4,136+1%
  45. Milton Keynes6,657 sales£350,000£4,077−1%
  46. Reading3,663 sales£350,000£4,286+1%
  47. Worthing3,171 sales£350,000£4,202−1%
  48. Canterbury4,044 sales£347,500£3,913−1%
  49. Arun5,297 sales£345,000£4,000+1%
  50. Ashford3,379 sales£345,000£3,987+1%
  51. Eastleigh4,011 sales£345,000£3,990+1%
  52. Fareham3,541 sales£345,000£4,0620%
  53. Havant3,229 sales£320,000£3,503−2%
  54. Folkestone and Hythe3,286 sales£317,500£3,431+3%
  55. Medway6,467 sales£312,000£3,775+2%
  56. Swale4,136 sales£310,000£3,779+1%
  57. Dover3,302 sales£293,500£3,3800%
  58. Thanet3,822 sales£293,000£3,398+2%
  59. Hastings2,384 sales£280,000£3,3110%
  60. Eastbourne2,879 sales£276,000£3,271−2%
  61. Isle of Wight4,068 sales£260,000£2,9110%
  62. Southampton4,934 sales£260,000£3,3930%
  63. Portsmouth4,562 sales£258,000£3,074+2%
  64. Gosport2,233 sales£255,000£3,333+2%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in Dartford, up 9%, and fell most in Reigate and Banstead, down 4%.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the South East, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached66,355£595,000£460,000 to £805,000£4,753/m²from 2,810 sales
Semi-detached65,143£400,000£330,000 to £495,000£4,484/m²from 2,569 sales
Terraced60,443£328,000£270,000 to £407,000£4,063/m²from 2,107 sales
Flats and maisonettes46,175£225,000£170,000 to £295,000£3,684/m²from 1,377 sales

Detached houses and semi-detached houses sold in similar numbers in the South East, at 28% and 27% of sales.

20% of sales were leasehold, close to the 21% across England and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 30%, from £295,500 in 2016 to £385,000 in 2025, less than the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Thanet, up 46%, and least in Woking, up 18%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Postcode areas in the South East

About these figures

The 238,116 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the South East by each home's postcode, and 8,863 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.