St James Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices are built from 323 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £187,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -46.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -61.2%.
Median price paid
£187,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-46.5%
Change in real terms
-61.2%
Median per m²
£2,897
HM Land Registry323 sales96 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Mar 2026
Section 01
How St James Road, Tunbridge Wells prices moved
The chart tracks the median St James Road, Tunbridge Wells house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | £61,500 | £136,559 |
| 2000s | 9 | £170,500 | £310,601 |
| 2010s | 8 | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 2020s | 5 | £455,000 | £464,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for St James Road, Tunbridge Wells is £513,750 in 2020; the lowest is £55,250 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £73,000 to £182,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £158,354, so the real change over the whole record is +17.4% — about +0.56% 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: -46.5% in cash against -61.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148 | 30 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £434,420 | £434,420 |
| 100 | 17 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| Flat A 24 | 7 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Flat 6 Bramhall Lodge, 2 | 2 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £246,000 | £251,348 |
| 119a | 29 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £175,739 |
| 119b | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £222,739 |
| Flat 4 Kings Court, 32 | 13 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | £185,957 |
| Flat 5 Bramhall Lodge, 2 | 13 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £185,194 |
| 84a | 22 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £405,000 | £426,157 |
| 63 | 27 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £1,150,000 | £1,210,075 |
| 10c | 19 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £202,000 | £218,253 |
| 61 | 17 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £1,125,000 | £1,215,517 |
| 38 | 4 Oct 2023 | Detached | £1,550,000 | £1,674,713 |
| 79 | 3 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| 39 | 22 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £1,516,000 | £1,637,977 |
| Top Floor Flat 27 | 31 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 144 | 21 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £475,000 | £513,218 |
| Flat 1 Bramhall Lodge, 2 | 12 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| Flat 2 3 | 30 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| 95 | 30 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £457,500 | £530,053 |
| First Floor Flat 27 | 14 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £258,000 | £298,915 |
| 83 | 9 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £455,000 | £527,157 |
| 33b | 31 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 62 | 19 Aug 2022 | Detached | £1,360,000 | £1,575,678 |
| Flat 3 24 | 19 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £231,717 |
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 St James Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148 St James Road | £162,000 (2003) | £434,420 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 100 St James Road | £235,000 (2010) | £600,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.0% |
| FLAT 6 BRAMHALL LODGE, 2 St James Road | £74,000 (1998) | £246,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 119B St James Road | £150,000 (2017) | £218,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +1.1% |
| FLAT 5 BRAMHALL LODGE, 2 St James Road | £140,500 (2006) | £176,000 (2024) | +1.3% | -1.7% |
| 84A St James Road | £312,000 (2015) | £405,000 (2024) | +2.9% | -0.4% |
| 63 St James Road | £570,000 (2013) | £1,150,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.5% |
| 61 St James Road | £118,200 (1996) | £1,125,000 (2023) | +8.7% | +5.9% |
| 39 St James Road | £700,000 (2017) | £1,516,000 (2023) | +13.7% | +9.5% |
| TOP FLOOR FLAT 27 St James Road | £265,000 (2021) | £285,000 (2023) | +3.7% | -4.1% |
| 144 St James Road | £63,000 (1995) | £475,000 (2023) | +7.5% | +4.8% |
| FLAT 1 BRAMHALL LODGE, 2 St James Road | £40,500 (1997) | £225,000 (2022) | +7.1% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St James Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 153 | 47.4% | £139,000 | £30,500 – £1,516,000 |
| Semi-detached | 113 | 35.0% | £263,000 | £39,650 – £1,425,000 |
| Detached | 35 | 10.8% | £603,000 | £82,000 – £1,550,000 |
| Terraced | 22 | 6.8% | £280,000 | £62,000 – £475,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St James Road, Tunbridge Wells
156 of the sales on record are leasehold and 167 freehold — 48.3% 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 £136,000 and the median freehold sale £290,000 — a gap of +113.2%. 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 | 156 | 48.3% | £136,000 |
| Freehold | 167 | 51.7% | £290,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.3% | £185,000 |
| Existing home | 322 | 99.7% | £188,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.9%. 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 7 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 St James Road, Tunbridge Wells compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St James Road, Tunbridge Wells sits above that national figure — +18.7%.
Within Tunbridge Wells the street ranks 713 of 898 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £240,000 (-22.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,897 per square metre, across 96 of the 323 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 £30,500 to £1,550,000. 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 nearby
- Upper Grosvenor Road£137,250 median
- Dudley Road£120,000 median
- Grove Hill Road£185,000 median
- Auckland Road£172,750 median
- Mount Sion£207,500 median
- Church Road£280,000 median
- York Road£144,000 median
- Lime Hill Road£125,000 median
- Lansdowne Road£176,334 median
- Beulah Road£197,800 median
- St James Park£283,750 median
- Albion Road£199,250 median
- Camden Road£99,000 median
- Norman Road£163,938 median
- Garden Road£190,000 median
- Goods Station Road£197,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 1, BRAMHALL LODGE, 2 St James Road6 sales
- FLAT 2, 24 St James Road6 sales
- 103 St James Road6 sales
- 22B St James Road6 sales
- 93 St James Road6 sales
- 61 St James Road5 sales
- 144 St James Road5 sales
- 112 St James Road5 sales
- 154 St James Road5 sales
- FLAT 3, BRAMHALL LODGE, 2 St James Road5 sales
- SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 27 St James Road5 sales
- 100 St James Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, BRAMHALL LODGE, 2 St James Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 14 St James Road4 sales
- 117 St James Road4 sales
- 22D St James Road4 sales
- 87 St James Road4 sales
- 96 St James Road4 sales
- 92 St James Road4 sales
- 22C St James Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 14 St James Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, KINGS COURT, 32 St James Road4 sales
- 101 St James Road4 sales
- 44 St James Road4 sales
Back to Tunbridge Wells house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St James Road, Tunbridge Wells?
The median price paid in St James Road, Tunbridge Wells across every sale on the register is £187,000. 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 St James Road, Tunbridge Wells?
323 sales are on record for St James Road, Tunbridge Wells, the most recent completing on 30 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St James Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -46.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -61.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St James Road, Tunbridge Wells house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £513,750, set in 2020. 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 St James Road, Tunbridge Wells?
£2,897 per square metre, from the 96 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 30 Mar 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, “St James Road, 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.