Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells house prices are built from 180 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £240,000. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +56.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +20.2%.
Median price paid
£240,000
Change in cash, 2009–2021
+56.4%
Change in real terms
+20.2%
HM Land Registry180 salesLatest sale 6 May 2026
Section 01
How Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells prices moved
The chart tracks the median Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 | 4 | £84,500 | £187,630 |
| 2000s | 6 | £192,500 | £350,678 |
| 2010s | 7 | £338,500 | £477,285 |
| 2020s | 2 | £317,000 | £323,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells is £430,000 in 2017; the lowest is £66,375 in 1995. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £66,375 to £430,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £147,384, so the real change over the whole record is +268.6% — about +5.15% 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: +56.4% in cash against +20.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134 | 6 May 2026 | Detached | £605,000 | £605,000 |
| 43 | 13 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 78 | 20 Oct 2025 | Detached | £610,000 | £623,261 |
| 115 | 25 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 41 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 86 | 27 Mar 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 37 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| 89 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £377,000 | £396,694 |
| 15 | 24 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £422,000 | £444,045 |
| 47 | 24 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £402,500 | £434,885 |
| 97 | 18 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 112 | 24 Feb 2023 | Detached | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 52 | 24 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £420,000 | £453,793 |
| 68 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £390,000 | £451,849 |
| 90 | 22 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 79 | 31 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 56 | 23 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £363,000 | £420,567 |
| 104 | 19 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £422,000 | £533,172 |
| 124 | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £550,000 | £694,892 |
| 85 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £359,000 | £453,575 |
| 70 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £342,000 | £432,097 |
| 83 | 27 May 2021 | Terraced | £450,000 | £568,548 |
| 5 | 31 Mar 2021 | Detached | £430,000 | £543,280 |
| 36 | 12 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £612,769 |
| 58 | 22 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £317,000 | £410,441 |
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 Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134 Ridgeway | £169,950 (1999) | £605,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 43 Ridgeway | £69,000 (1995) | £375,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 78 Ridgeway | £116,000 (1999) | £610,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 41 Ridgeway | £73,500 (1997) | £365,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 86 Ridgeway | £113,500 (1997) | £550,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 89 Ridgeway | £215,000 (2011) | £377,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 37 Ridgeway | £199,950 (2010) | £410,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.2% |
| 47 Ridgeway | £210,000 (2006) | £402,500 (2023) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 97 Ridgeway | £97,000 (2000) | £325,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 52 Ridgeway | £86,500 (1999) | £420,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 68 Ridgeway | £150,000 (2003) | £390,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 104 Ridgeway | £88,000 (1997) | £422,000 (2021) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 92 | 51.1% | £215,000 | £60,000 – £450,000 |
| Detached | 47 | 26.1% | £300,000 | £83,500 – £650,000 |
| Semi-detached | 40 | 22.2% | £284,000 | £71,000 – £510,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.6% | £178,500 | £178,500 – £178,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 179 freehold — 0.6% 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 £78,000 and the median freehold sale £240,000 — a gap of +207.7%. 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 | 1 | 0.6% | £78,000 |
| Freehold | 179 | 99.4% | £240,000 |
A further 5 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 Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 484 | 0.8% |
| B | 10,037 | 17.5% |
| C | 18,085 | 31.6% |
| D | 19,300 | 33.7% |
| E | 7,060 | 12.3% |
| F | 1,680 | 2.9% |
| G | 548 | 1.0% |
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 £240,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.41% 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 TN2, 203 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 74 violent, 4 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 43 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 1.54 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 Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells
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 TN2 postcode: 7 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skinners' Kent Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,017 |
| St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 629 |
| Claremont Primary School | Primary | Community school | 436 |
| Pembury School | Primary | Community school | 400 |
| Skinners' Kent Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 212 |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 208 |
| Skinners' Temple Grove | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 163 |
| Broadwater Down Primary School | Primary | Community school | 109 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Tunbridge Wells Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| High Brooms Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Tunbridge Wells West (Spa Valley Railway) | Tram | 2.2 km |
| Tunbridge Wells West (Spa Valley Railway) | Metro or underground | 2.3 km |
Section 09
How Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells sits above that national figure — +52.4%.
Within Tunbridge Wells the street ranks 566 of 898 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £240,000 (0.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £60,000 to £650,000. 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.
Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Broadwater Down£250,000 median
- Sandhurst Road£145,000 median
- Frant Road£249,975 median
- Forest Road£499,975 median
- Willicombe Park£270,000 median
- Green Way£171,500 median
- Hastings Road£248,500 median
- Pembury Road£345,000 median
- Linden Park Road£375,000 median
- Kingswood Road£260,000 median
- Ashenden Walk£141,000 median
- Warwick Park£376,000 median
- Henwood Green Road£247,000 median
- Farmcombe Road£390,000 median
- Clifton Road£167,500 median
- Addison Road£192,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 43 Ridgeway5 sales
- 97 Ridgeway5 sales
- 58 Ridgeway5 sales
- 3 Ridgeway5 sales
- 84 Ridgeway5 sales
- 52 Ridgeway4 sales
- 68 Ridgeway4 sales
- 33 Ridgeway4 sales
- 77 Ridgeway4 sales
- 121 Ridgeway4 sales
- 122 Ridgeway4 sales
- 78 Ridgeway3 sales
- 41 Ridgeway3 sales
- 37 Ridgeway3 sales
- 89 Ridgeway3 sales
- 47 Ridgeway3 sales
- 62 Ridgeway3 sales
- 67 Ridgeway3 sales
- 35 Ridgeway3 sales
- 63 Ridgeway3 sales
- 87 Ridgeway3 sales
- 126 Ridgeway3 sales
- 69 Ridgeway3 sales
- 134 Ridgeway2 sales
Back to Tunbridge Wells house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells?
The median price paid in Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells across every sale on the register is £240,000. 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 Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells?
180 sales are on record for Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells, the most recent completing on 6 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +56.4% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +20.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £430,000, set in 2017. 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 Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 6 May 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, “Ridgeway, Tunbridge Wells 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.