About £458,000, and for that money you mostly get a flat. Flats make up most of what sells. Houses cost a good deal more. Prices have slipped a little over the year. Brentford is a flat market with some houses on the side.
The Land Registry recorded 200 sales in Brentford in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £458,000. Flats made up 145 of those sales, at a median of £420,000, and they set the market. The 36 terraces that sold went for a median of about £693,000. The 16 semis fetched about £733,000. Only three detached houses sold, at a median of £795,000, so a detached house here is something you hear about more often than see on the market.
The official house price index for the area put the average at about £501,000 as of May 2026, down 2.4% on a year earlier. Flats fell further, by 4.7% to an average of about £338,000. A drop of that size is a dent, not a crash. It suits a first-time buyer who has been waiting, and it suits the landlord who bought a one-bed by the canal as a pension rather less. Over five years the same index is up 4.9%, which is a slow climb by London standards.
Council tax is mostly band D, the most common band in Brentford, and only about 10% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill comes to about £2,190 a year. Band A is about £1,460 and band H about £4,370. The town has almost nothing in the cheap bands, so buyers should budget for council tax at band D or above.
Across the London Borough of Hounslow, typical private rent was about £1,920 a month as of April 2026, up 2.7% on the year before. That is a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not the middle of what Brentford landlords are advertising. By size, Hounslow's average one-bed rents for about £1,560, a two-bed for about £1,920, a three-bed for about £2,200 and a four-bed or bigger for about £3,040. No studio or room figures are published. With only a few large homes in Brentford, the four-bed figure mostly tells you what the rest of the borough charges.
Household income across Brentford was modelled at about £86,000 a year before tax for the financial year to March 2023, or about £57,000 after tax. That is several years old and averaged over the area, so it describes no single household. On that income, a household could make a realistic case to a lender for a flat at the median price. A terrace is a much bigger ask, and many of the people who manage one have had help from family.
Of the sales that could be matched to a floor area on an energy certificate, 72 of them or about 36% of all sales, the median price was about £6,400 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is 93 square metres. A lot of what Brentford buyers pay is for the location, with the river and the parks, and floor space comes with it.
At the 2021 census, about 28% of Brentford households had one bedroom, 39% had two, 24% had three and 9% had four or more. The two-bed is the town's standard home. Couples are well served, while a growing family is competing for a small share of the bigger homes.
House prices in Brentford are middling for this part of London. The flats are within reach of a well-paid household, but the houses are scarce and cost a good deal more.