A typical Chertsey home sells for a little over £425,000. Flats come in around a quarter of a million. Semis go for nearer half a million. A detached house costs about seven hundred thousand. The abbey has been gone for centuries, and the town still collects a tithe at the front door.
The Land Registry recorded 165 sales in Chertsey in the year to May 2026, and the median price was about £426,000. Semi-detached houses were the busiest part of the market, with 60 sales at a median of about £485,000. Flats followed with 52 sales at about £256,000, then 32 terraced houses at about £408,000. Only 21 detached houses changed hands, at a median of about £700,000, which is what a town hemmed in by green belt on every side ends up with.
The official house price index for the area put the average price at about £482,000 in May 2026, up 2% on a year earlier. Flats went the other way, about half a percent lower over the same twelve months. Neither number is going to cause anyone to cancel a viewing. Anyone holding out for a crash has picked a dull year to wait in.
Band D is the most common council-tax band in Chertsey, and only about 12% of homes are in bands A or B. Runnymede charges about £2,490 a year for band D, the figure most buyers can set against their current bill. At the top, 50 homes are in band H, which costs about £4,990 a year.
Renting is priced at borough level. The Office for National Statistics' rental index put the average private rent across Runnymede at about £1,570 a month in April 2026, 3% lower than a year earlier. For the same borough it gives about £1,070 for one bedroom, about £1,380 for two, about £1,660 for three and about £2,390 for four or more. These are averages for the whole borough, so a two-bed by Chertsey Bridge and one on the far side of Addlestone get the same number, and the tenants will know the difference even if the index doesn't.
The Office for National Statistics models average gross household income across Chertsey at about £66,500, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. On that income a flat at around £256,000 is a realistic first purchase. A semi at about £485,000 needs two salaries, a decent deposit and a lender in a generous mood.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, the median price was about £5,160 per square metre, on a typical home of about 87 square metres. That covers 122 sales, about 74% of the year's total, so the rest are missing from the average. Ask for the energy certificate early and check the floor area it records, because the listing's square footage and the certificate's are measured by different people with different incentives.
At the 2021 census about 17% of Chertsey's homes had one bedroom, 34% had two, 31% had three and 19% had four or more. Two bedrooms is the most common size in town, which lines up with all those flats and semis, and the family hunting for a fourth bedroom is shopping in a fifth of the stock.
Chertsey's prices are middling for this part of Surrey. The flats are where the money stretches furthest, and the detached houses are a waiting list.