A typical Hampton home costs about £660,000, and that only gets you a terrace. Detached houses clear a million. Flats go for about a third of a million. Prices slipped a little this year. They are still a long way from cheap.
The Land Registry recorded 227 sales in Hampton in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of £660,000. Terraces made up the biggest group with 86 sales, and their median was the same £660,000. Semis went for about £788,000 across 54 sales. The 34 detached houses that sold had a median of about £1,175,000, and the 53 flats about £345,000. Those are the prices for the whole range of homes here, from a one-bed flat to a Bushy Park Gardens villa. Sunbury-on-Thames, a short way upstream, has a steady trade in buyers who wanted this stretch of river at a lower price.
The house price index for the area put the average price at about £789,000 in May 2026, down about 3% on a year earlier. Flats fell further, by about 4%, to an index average of about £483,000. The index is still about 9% higher than it was five years ago. A drop of a few percent on a price this size is a lot of money in pounds and very little as a percentage, and sellers who bought five years ago are unlikely to lose sleep over it.
For council tax, band D is the most common, and only about 3% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D home pays about £2,490 a year. Richmond upon Thames has plenty of streets where band D is the bottom of the market, and Hampton is one of them.
Renting across Richmond upon Thames comes to about £2,310 a month as of April 2026, up about 6% on the year. That is a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, so it describes the whole borough and not Hampton's streets in particular. By size, the borough averages are about £1,710 for a one-bed, £2,200 for a two-bed, £2,650 for a three-bed and £3,870 for four bedrooms or more. A four-bed costs more to rent than many people earn in a month after tax, so most of the people paying it are relocating with an employer covering the bill.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income here at about £90,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That is gross, before tax, and three years out of date. Even on that figure, the median price is well beyond what an ordinary mortgage multiple will lend, and the gap is usually filled by equity from a previous home or help from family. A first-time buyer on a single salary is looking at the flat column and nothing else.
Among the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 79% of them, the median price was about £7,050 per square metre. The typical floor area behind those sales was about 96 square metres, which is an ordinary family house. Most of the price pays for the location. The size of the house is unremarkable.
The 2021 census recorded about 16% of homes with one bedroom, 27% with two, 30% with three and 28% with four or more. Hampton has more four-bedroom homes than most of outer London. Every sale of one becomes a contest between families trading up from Twickenham and Teddington. Get the agent's floor plan measured against the energy certificate before you make an offer, because "four bedrooms" covers everything from a big Edwardian house to a semi with a box room over the stairs.
Hampton is expensive by any measure, and value is the one thing it does badly. The past year's small fall has made no real difference to who can afford to buy here.