Waterloo Road, Tonbridge house prices

Waterloo Road, Tonbridge house prices are built from 118 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,475. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved 0.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -25.9%.

HM Land Registry118 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Waterloo Road, Tonbridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Waterloo Road, Tonbridge is £250,000 in 2018; the lowest is £70,975 in 1997. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £70,975 to £215,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £150,488, so the real change over the whole record is +54.4% — about +1.68% 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: 0.0% in cash against -25.9% 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.

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.

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 Waterloo Road, Tonbridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Waterloo Road, Tonbridge is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

95 of the sales on record are leasehold and 23 freehold — 80.5% 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 £150,000 and the median freehold sale £195,000 — a gap of +30.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 3 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Tonbridge and Malling, 50.0% of 57,194 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Tonbridge and Malling at £1,481 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,026 for a one-bedroom home and £1,616 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £158,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.21% 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 TN9, 198 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 35 violent, 2 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 41 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.

Against the 132,201 residents the 2021 census counted in Tonbridge and Malling, that is 1.50 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.

The 2021 census counted 132,201 residents in Tonbridge and Malling across 53,571 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

8 state and independent schools have a TN9 postcode: 5 secondary, 3 primary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Waterloo Road, Tonbridge sits above that national figure — +0.6%.

Within Tonbridge the street ranks 929 of 1015 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-36.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,619 per square metre, across 36 of the 118 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 £13,000 to £500,000. 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.

Waterloo Road, Tonbridge sits in Tonbridge and Malling, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Tonbridge and Malling at 12.0 times median local earnings of £34,735 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.

Streets nearby

• High Street£240,000 median
• Hadlow Road£237,500 median
• St Marys Road£193,000 median
• Pembury Road£227,475 median
• Medway Wharf Road£200,000 median
• Lavender Hill£195,000 median
• Whitefriars Wharf£190,000 median
• Sovereign Way£283,995 median
• Cannons Wharf£212,500 median
• Woodside Road£220,000 median
• Douglas Road£207,000 median
• Hectorage Road£182,500 median
• Lyons Crescent£218,000 median
• Priory Road£149,500 median
• Barden Road£215,000 median
• East Street£235,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 29, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road6 sales
• FLAT 4, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 23, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 15, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road5 sales
• FLAT 8, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road5 sales
• 26 Waterloo Road4 sales
• FLAT 2, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road4 sales
• FLAT 25, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road4 sales
• 15 Waterloo Road4 sales
• 22 Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 32, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 18, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 6, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 22, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 28, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 16, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 7, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 34, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 24, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 17, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 3, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 11, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales
• 14 Waterloo Road3 sales
• FLAT 9, MERRYFIELD COURT Waterloo Road3 sales

Back to Tonbridge house prices.

What is the average house price in Waterloo Road, Tonbridge?

The median price paid in Waterloo Road, Tonbridge across every sale on the register is £158,475. 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 Waterloo Road, Tonbridge?

118 sales are on record for Waterloo Road, Tonbridge, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Waterloo Road, Tonbridge house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose 0.0% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -25.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Waterloo Road, Tonbridge house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2018. 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 Waterloo Road, Tonbridge?

£2,619 per square metre, from the 36 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 5 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, “Waterloo Road, Tonbridge 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.