About £720,000, and the cheapest way in is a flat. Detached houses sell for close to £900,000. Four bedrooms is the most common size. Over the past year prices have barely moved. Ashtead stays dear because nobody here needs to sell cheaply.
In the Land Registry's records for the year to May 2026, the typical sale in Ashtead was about £720,000, across 129 sales. Detached houses made up 60 of those sales at a median of about £890,000, and 34 semis went for around £633,000. The 15 terraces sold for about £625,000 and the 20 flats for around £360,000. With detached houses making up the largest single group of sales, the headline median mostly describes a house with its own drive and a gate to close behind it.
The published house price index, which covers a wider area than the village, put the average up about 0.7% in the year to May 2026. That is barely a change, and it should be read as one. Flats in the same index fell about 1.3% over the year. The flat is the one type of home here getting cheaper, and it was already the only one most buyers could afford.
Ashtead's most common council tax band is F, and only about 7% of homes sit in bands A or B. Mole Valley's band D bill is about £2,520 a year and band H is about £5,040, so most households here pay comfortably more than the band D benchmark that people use to compare councils. Band F almost never makes it into the property particulars, but it arrives with every new owner.
Mole Valley's private rents averaged about £1,550 a month in April 2026, up about 1.9% on the year. That is a mean across the whole district from the Office for National Statistics index, which is a different measure from a median of the flats currently advertised. On the same district basis, a one-bedroom home averaged about £1,140, two bedrooms about £1,450, three bedrooms about £1,850 and four or more about £2,570. No figures for studios or single rooms are available. Ashtead's rental market is small enough that a district-wide average is the closest available guide to what you would actually pay here.
The Office for National Statistics modelled household income across the area at about £76,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023, and about £53,000 after it. Set beside a typical sale of £720,000, the income is good and the houses are better. Unless you already have equity in a house, it is a stretch. Most people buying here are spending money that an earlier house made for them.
Among the sales that could be matched to a floor area on an energy certificate, about 86% of them, the median price was about £6,040 per square metre, and the typical home behind that figure was about 113 square metres. So the price here pays for space more than for a postcode. Check the floor area on the energy certificate against the room sizes in the particulars, because particulars tend to quote bedrooms and leave out the square metres.
The 2021 Census counted about 43% of Ashtead's homes with four or more bedrooms, 32% with three, 17% with two and only 9% with one. Most of the stock is built for families, and the one- and two-bedroom homes that a younger buyer needs make up about a quarter of it. A small household looking for a small home here will find about a quarter of the houses to choose from.
Ashtead is poor value by almost any measure. Everything you get for the money is real, but there is no discount on any of it.