Banstead house prices are built from 10,321 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +23.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -11.4%.
Median price paid
£320,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+23.7%
Change in real terms
-11.4%
Median per m²
£3,466
HM Land Registry10,321 sales2,316 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Banstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Banstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £130,000 | £288,661 |
| 2000s | 10 | £280,000 | £510,078 |
| 2010s | 10 | £413,750 | £583,388 |
| 2020s | 7 | £619,000 | £632,457 |
The highest yearly median on record for Banstead is £645,000 in 2023; the lowest is £109,250 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £109,250 to £600,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £242,587, so the real change over the whole record is +147.3% — about +2.96% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +23.7% in cash against -11.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Winkworth Place | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £377,500 | £377,500 |
| 7 Thornfield Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £540,000 | £540,000 |
| 23 Pine Walk | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £655,000 | £655,000 |
| 10 Forge Steading | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| ROSEWOOD Holly Lane | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,150,000 |
| 9 Picquets Way | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £562,500 | £562,500 |
| FLAT 3 BIRCHWOOD HOUSE, 11 Magnolia Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 42 Buckles Way | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £915,000 | £915,000 |
| 6 Cheviot Close | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 15 Wingfield Court | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £337,000 | £337,000 |
| 84 Roundwood Way | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £640,000 | £640,000 |
| 44 Pine Walk | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £755,000 | £755,000 |
| 6 Warren Mead | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 5 Thornfield Road | 20 May 2026 | Terraced | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 1 Hawthorn Close | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £870,000 | £870,000 |
| 48 Manor Way | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £555,000 | £555,000 |
| 13 CHEYNE COURT Park Road | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 26 Green Curve | 5 May 2026 | Detached | £1,220,000 | £1,220,000 |
| 25 Fairlawn Grove | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 1 Upper Dunnymans | 29 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 78 Hillside | 28 Apr 2026 | Detached | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 74 Lambert Road | 27 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £590,000 | £590,000 |
| 18 the Laurels | 7 Apr 2026 | Detached | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| 57A High Street | 2 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 36 Wingfield Court | 1 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £350,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Banstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Winkworth Place | £175,000 (2000) | £377,500 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 7 Thornfield Road | £249,950 (2011) | £540,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 10 Forge Steading | £277,500 (2009) | £315,000 (2026) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| 23 Pine Walk | £339,950 (2006) | £655,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 9 Picquets Way | £325,000 (2007) | £562,500 (2026) | +2.9% | 0.0% |
| FLAT 3 BIRCHWOOD HOUSE, 11 Magnolia Drive | £226,000 (2012) | £315,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 15 Wingfield Court | £205,000 (2002) | £337,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.7% |
| 6 Cheviot Close | £56,000 (1996) | £365,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 84 Roundwood Way | £278,000 (2002) | £640,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 6 Warren Mead | £86,500 (1996) | £650,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 44 Pine Walk | £152,500 (1997) | £755,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 5 Thornfield Road | £131,000 (2001) | £460,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Banstead is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 3,487 | 33.8% | £492,500 | £34,000 – £2,550,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3,319 | 32.2% | £320,000 | £2,500 – £1,725,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2,433 | 23.6% | £224,000 | £21,375 – £985,000 |
| Terraced | 1,082 | 10.5% | £259,950 | £26,000 – £1,012,500 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Banstead
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,836 certificates cover Banstead, and their median floor area is 92 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +20.4%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 92 m² | about 985 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 68 m² | about 732 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 139 m² | about 1,496 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 15.1% | 278 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 20.5% | 377 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Banstead
2,662 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7,659 freehold — 25.8% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £225,000 and the median freehold sale £380,000 — a gap of +68.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2,662 | 25.8% | £225,000 |
| Freehold | 7,659 | 74.2% | £380,000 |
| New build | 677 | 6.6% | £314,950 |
| Existing home | 9,644 | 93.4% | £320,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 345 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 09
How Banstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Banstead sits above that national figure — +103.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,466 per square metre, across 2,316 of the 10,321 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £2,500 to £2,550,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Banstead
- Chipstead Way360 sales
- Winkworth Road244 sales
- Warren Road230 sales
- High Street219 sales
- Elizabeth Drive213 sales
- Dunnymans Road207 sales
- Brighton Road204 sales
- Nork Way199 sales
- Diceland Road197 sales
- Courtlands Crescent176 sales
- Bolters Lane171 sales
- Hillside171 sales
- Woodmansterne Lane167 sales
- Lakers Rise150 sales
- Roundwood Way142 sales
- Wingfield Court141 sales
- Commonfield Road137 sales
- Greenhayes Avenue128 sales
- Ferndale Road127 sales
- Hillside Close121 sales
- High Beeches118 sales
- Banstead Road114 sales
- Wilmot Way113 sales
- Higher Drive112 sales
- Partridge Mead106 sales
- Manor Way100 sales
- Lyme Regis Road99 sales
- The Tracery99 sales
- Osier Way98 sales
- Fir Tree Road97 sales
- Park Road97 sales
- Parsonsfield Road97 sales
- Green Curve90 sales
- Holly Lane East89 sales
- Palmersfield Road89 sales
- Pound Road87 sales
- Basing Road86 sales
- Lambert Road86 sales
- Gilhams Avenue81 sales
- North Acre77 sales
- Prestbury Crescent77 sales
- Garratts Lane74 sales
- Hempshaw Avenue71 sales
- Beacon Way69 sales
- Rectory Lane68 sales
- Salisbury Road68 sales
- Kingscroft Road67 sales
- Merrymeet67 sales
- Carshalton Road66 sales
- Sandersfield Road65 sales
- The Drive61 sales
- Fairlawn Grove60 sales
- Eastgate59 sales
- Lancaster Court58 sales
- Yewlands Close57 sales
- Tumblewood Road56 sales
- Croydon Lane55 sales
- Larchwood Close55 sales
- Burgh Wood54 sales
- Court Road53 sales
Postcode districts covering Banstead
- SM7£320,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Banstead?
The median price paid in Banstead across every sale on the register is £320,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Banstead?
10,321 sales are on record for Banstead, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Banstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +23.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -11.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Banstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £645,000, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Banstead?
£3,466 per square metre, from the 2,316 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Banstead house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.