The district average fell 1.4% in July to £538,714 and annual growth slowed to 1.0%. Flats are now cheaper than a year ago, while detached homes hold above £1m.

The average home in the Sevenoaks district sold for £538,714 in July, £7,387 less than in June. Over the twelve months the district is up £5,566, a rise of 1.0 per cent. That annual figure is a sharp slowdown: the June release had the district growing at 3.2 per cent a year. (HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index: Sevenoaks, July 2025 to July 2026)

The figures were published at 9.30am today. The next set, covering August, is due at 9.30am on Wednesday 21 October. (GOV.UK, UK House Price Index reports)

Line chart of the average house price in the Sevenoaks district from July 2025 to July 2026, rising from £533,148 to a peak of £546,101 in June 2026 and falling to £538,714 in July
Chart by Sevenoaks Online

The record has moved to June, and shrunk

Last month we reported that June fell £6,025 to £543,081. Today’s release rewrites that. June has been restated at £546,101, which makes it the new record high in a series running back to January 1995. May, which held the record at £549,106 a month ago, has been cut to £545,017.

This is how the index works, not an error. It is built from sales registered with the Land Registry, sales keep arriving for months after completion, and every release recalculates the recent past. It is also why July’s £538,714 should be read as a first estimate. On current figures it is the largest monthly fall in at least a year, but next month’s release will restate it.

Flats are cheaper than a year ago

The middle of the market is still rising while the cheapest rung falls:

  • semi-detached: £537,825, up 1.9 per cent on the year
  • terraced homes: £426,822, up 1.7 per cent
  • detached: £1,012,433, up 1.1 per cent
  • flats and maisonettes: £279,276, down 1.9 per cent

(HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index: Sevenoaks)

Bar chart of annual price change by property type in the Sevenoaks district to July 2026: semi-detached up 1.9%, terraced up 1.7%, detached up 1.1%, flats and maisonettes down 1.9%
Chart by Sevenoaks Online

The average detached home has now been above £1m in every month since July 2025, when it first cleared that line at £1,001,179. A flat, at £279,276, costs less than it did last summer. For anyone hoping to trade up, the gap between a semi and a detached house stands at about £475,000.

Still top of the Kent league

Sevenoaks remains the most expensive of Kent’s 13 local authority areas, £82,487 ahead of second-placed Tunbridge Wells at £456,227 and £191,810 above the county average of £346,904. Tonbridge and Malling is third at £407,880. Thanet is again the cheapest at £269,708. (HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index, July 2026)

The direction of travel varies across the county. Gravesham grew fastest over the year at 3.3 per cent, with Swale close behind at 3.2 per cent. Two areas fell: Dartford, down 2.0 per cent, and Maidstone, down 0.1 per cent. Sevenoaks, at 1.0 per cent, now sits in the slower half of the county after months near the front.

What it means for you

If you are buying your first home here, the district’s average first-time buyer price in July was £407,520, up 1.1 per cent on a year ago. That is £107,520 above the £300,000 point where first-time buyers’ stamp duty relief stops, so a purchase at that price carries a bill of roughly £5,376 at the 5 per cent rate that applies from £300,000 to £500,000. (GOV.UK, Stamp Duty Land Tax: residential property rates)

If you are selling, one soft month after a record June is not a trend, and prices are still higher than a year ago. If you are staying put, your council tax does not move with any of this: bands are set on 1991 values, and you can check yours on our guide to Sevenoaks council tax bands.

To see what actually sold on your own street rather than a district mean, use the Land Registry’s Price Paid Data search, which lists every registered sale by address. Our explainer on Sevenoaks house prices covers how the market splits by area, and Sevenoaks planning applications covers what is being built. For the other side of the local economy, unemployment claims reached 1,675 in August, the district’s highest since January 2022.

One caution on the number

The UK House Price Index average is a mean, not a median. One multi-million-pound sale lifts a district average in a way it could never lift a median, and this district has plenty of houses capable of doing that. £538,714 is the centre of gravity of the market, not the price of a typical family home.

Sources

Image: Gambrel-roofed houses, Sevenoaks High Street by Stefan Czapski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph.