Steels Lane, Leatherhead house prices are built from 120 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 22 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £475,000. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +54.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.7%.
Median price paid
£475,000
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+54.1%
Change in real terms
+2.7%
Median per m²
£4,028
HM Land Registry120 sales10 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Steels Lane, Leatherhead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Steels Lane, Leatherhead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2022. 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 | 1 | £250,000 | £555,118 |
| 2000s | 5 | £307,500 | £560,174 |
| 2010s | 1 | £440,000 | £620,400 |
| 2020s | 2 | £705,000 | £720,326 |
The highest yearly median on record for Steels Lane, Leatherhead is £975,750 in 2022; the lowest is £190,000 in 2004. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £250,000 to £975,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £509,393, so the real change over the whole record is +121.9% — about +3.53% 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: +54.1% in cash against +2.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sconce | 22 Jan 2026 | Detached | £1,350,000 | £1,350,000 |
| Thirlmere | 1 Oct 2025 | Detached | £1,280,000 | £1,307,826 |
| Trebarwith | 21 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £725,000 | £740,761 |
| Oakshade Cottage | 13 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £667,500 | £682,011 |
| 5 Crown Cottages | 16 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £656,500 | £690,795 |
| Clevelands | 27 Sep 2024 | Detached | £1,385,000 | £1,457,351 |
| 1 Dorothy Cottages | 15 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £668,000 | £702,896 |
| Mead House | 21 Jun 2023 | Detached | £2,600,000 | £2,809,195 |
| Rose Cottage | 15 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £567,241 |
| 2 Dorothy Cottages | 25 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £675,000 | £782,046 |
| Lavender Cottage | 25 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £1,051,000 | £1,217,675 |
| 1 Crown Cottages | 7 Jun 2022 | Detached | £666,000 | £771,619 |
| Wayside Cottage | 29 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £900,500 | £1,043,307 |
| Yr Hen Dderw | 31 Jan 2022 | Detached | £1,937,500 | £2,244,762 |
| Wildcroft | 27 Jan 2022 | Detached | £1,100,000 | £1,274,445 |
| Woodlea | 25 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £705,000 | £890,726 |
| Fairlawns | 13 Apr 2021 | Detached | £2,750,000 | £3,474,462 |
| Orchard Cottage | 15 Mar 2021 | Detached | £685,000 | £865,457 |
| 5 Crown Cottages | 1 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £625,403 |
| Oakleigh | 12 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £969,000 | £1,224,274 |
| Sterling House | 21 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £835,000 | £1,081,129 |
| Acorns | 10 Jul 2020 | Detached | £1,425,000 | £1,845,041 |
| Marathon | 20 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £647,500 | £838,361 |
| 12 Crown Cottages | 27 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £545,000 | £712,848 |
| Danebury | 4 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £885,000 | £1,157,560 |
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 Steels Lane, Leatherhead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCONCE Steels Lane | £265,000 (2000) | £1,350,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| THIRLMERE Steels Lane | £631,000 (2008) | £1,280,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.2% |
| 5 CROWN COTTAGES Steels Lane | £110,000 (1995) | £656,500 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 1 DOROTHY COTTAGES Steels Lane | £275,000 (2005) | £668,000 (2024) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
| MEAD HOUSE Steels Lane | £895,000 (1998) | £2,600,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 2 DOROTHY COTTAGES Steels Lane | £210,000 (2000) | £675,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.9% |
| LAVENDER COTTAGE Steels Lane | £323,000 (2002) | £1,051,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| WAYSIDE COTTAGE Steels Lane | £295,000 (2000) | £900,500 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| YR HEN DDERW Steels Lane | £995,000 (2002) | £1,937,500 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| WILDCROFT Steels Lane | £275,000 (1998) | £1,100,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.4% |
| WOODLEA Steels Lane | £335,000 (2002) | £705,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.7% |
| FAIRLAWNS Steels Lane | £400,000 (1998) | £2,750,000 (2021) | +8.7% | +6.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Steels Lane, Leatherhead 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 | 49 | 40.8% | £890,000 | £140,000 – £2,750,000 |
| Semi-detached | 37 | 30.8% | £480,000 | £110,000 – £1,051,000 |
| Terraced | 21 | 17.5% | £390,000 | £24,616 – £675,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 13 | 10.8% | £140,000 | £56,000 – £160,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Steels Lane, Leatherhead
13 of the sales on record are leasehold and 107 freehold — 10.8% 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 £140,000 and the median freehold sale £540,000 — a gap of +285.7%. 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 | 13 | 10.8% | £140,000 |
| Freehold | 107 | 89.2% | £540,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.7% | £853,750 |
| Existing home | 118 | 98.3% | £460,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +85.6%. 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 4 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 07
Living in Steels Lane, Leatherhead
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Elmbridge, 44.4% of 66,817 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 155 | 0.2% |
| B | 7,608 | 11.4% |
| C | 21,932 | 32.8% |
| D | 23,849 | 35.7% |
| E | 10,349 | 15.5% |
| F | 2,430 | 3.6% |
| G | 494 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Elmbridge at £1,852 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,237 for a one-bedroom home and £1,896 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £475,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.68% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of KT22, 104 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 29 violent, 5 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 22 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.
Against the 138,754 residents the 2021 census counted in Elmbridge, that is 0.75 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Steels Lane, Leatherhead
The 2021 census counted 138,754 residents in Elmbridge across 55,587 households. 72.4% of those households own their home and 27.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
7 state and independent schools have a KT22 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Andrew's Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,594 |
| Therfield School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,075 |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 433 |
| Leatherhead Trinity School and Nursery | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 350 |
| Oakfield Junior School | Primary | Community school | 255 |
| The Royal Kent CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 204 |
| Fetcham Village Infant School | Primary | Community school | 178 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Leatherhead Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Ashtead Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Bookham Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
Section 09
How Steels Lane, Leatherhead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Steels Lane, Leatherhead sits above that national figure — +201.6%.
Within Leatherhead the street ranks 312 of 632 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £355,000 (+33.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,028 per square metre, across 10 of the 120 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 £24,616 to £2,750,000. 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.
Steels Lane, Leatherhead sits in Elmbridge, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Elmbridge at 15.7 times median local earnings of £41,309 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Kingston Road£189,475 median
- Epsom Road£221,638 median
- Church Road£225,000 median
- Lower Road£625,000 median
- The Street£382,500 median
- Cobham Road£340,000 median
- Windfield£219,500 median
- Teazlewood Park£144,000 median
- Highbury Drive£240,000 median
- Kingston Avenue£289,950 median
- Park View Road£225,000 median
- Bridge Street£201,000 median
- Kennel Lane£438,250 median
- Belmont Road£147,000 median
- Lavender Close£309,000 median
- Cannon Grove£265,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- LAVENDER COTTAGE Steels Lane5 sales
- WAYSIDE COTTAGE Steels Lane5 sales
- 2, the CLOCK HOUSE Steels Lane5 sales
- FLAT 3, the CLOCK HOUSE Steels Lane5 sales
- SCONCE Steels Lane4 sales
- 5, CROWN COTTAGES Steels Lane4 sales
- 1, DOROTHY COTTAGES Steels Lane4 sales
- 2, DOROTHY COTTAGES Steels Lane4 sales
- WILDCROFT Steels Lane4 sales
- FAIRLAWNS Steels Lane4 sales
- ORCHARD COTTAGE Steels Lane4 sales
- ACORNS Steels Lane4 sales
- MEAD HOUSE Steels Lane3 sales
- MARATHON Steels Lane3 sales
- 12, CROWN COTTAGES Steels Lane3 sales
- THIRLMERE Steels Lane2 sales
- YR HEN DDERW Steels Lane2 sales
- WOODLEA Steels Lane2 sales
- STERLING HOUSE Steels Lane2 sales
- 4, CROWN COTTAGES Steels Lane2 sales
- 15, CROWN COTTAGES Steels Lane2 sales
- 6, CROWN COTTAGES Steels Lane2 sales
- BUTTERMERE Steels Lane2 sales
- WINDERMERE Steels Lane2 sales
Back to Leatherhead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Steels Lane, Leatherhead?
The median price paid in Steels Lane, Leatherhead across every sale on the register is £475,000. 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 Steels Lane, Leatherhead?
120 sales are on record for Steels Lane, Leatherhead, the most recent completing on 22 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Steels Lane, Leatherhead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +54.1% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Steels Lane, Leatherhead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £975,750, set in 2022. 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 Steels Lane, Leatherhead?
£4,028 per square metre, from the 10 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 22 Jan 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, “Steels Lane, Leatherhead 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.