Getting on for half a million pounds, for a village that mostly sells semis. Detached houses cost a good deal more. Flats hardly ever come up. Prices are still edging upwards. That is London-fringe money for an address that still calls itself a village.
The Land Registry recorded 44 sales in Hextable in the year to early May 2026, and the typical price was £456,500. Semi-detached houses made up the biggest group, 20 sales at a typical £459,000, so the semi more or less is the market. The 17 detached houses went for about £575,000. The 4 terraces, at about £325,000, and the 3 flats, at about £240,000, are too few to build a budget on. Anyone hoping a terrace will be their way in should know the whole year produced fewer than a handful.
The official house price index, which covers a wider area than the village, put the average at about £554,000 in May 2026, up about 4% on a year earlier. Flats in the same index rose about 1%. Neither number points to a boom or a slump, and anyone waiting for a correction to bring a three-bedroom semi within reach will be waiting a while.
Band D is the most common council-tax band in Hextable, and bands A and B, the cheapest two, cover only about 6% of homes. A band D bill here runs to about £2,520 a year. That is the number to compare against your current bill, because most buyers will be paying it or more.
Sevenoaks district, the council area Hextable belongs to, had a typical private rent of about £1,780 a month in April 2026. That is a district-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, so it blends Hextable with every other town and village in the district. By size, the district averages about £1,250 for one bedroom, £1,560 for two, £1,900 for three and £2,920 for four or more. Nothing is published for studios or rooms, and there are very few one-bedroom homes in Hextable anyway.
Household income in and around Hextable averaged about £66,000 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023, on modelled figures for the two surrounding middle-layer areas. Set against a typical sale price of £456,500, that is a serious stretch for a single buyer and a hard push even for a couple on that money. Most of the semis changing hands are being bought with equity from a previous home, because a salary alone doesn't get anywhere near.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 84% of the total, the median price was about £4,950 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure has about 95 square metres of floor space, which is family-house territory in a village that was mostly built after the war. The figure leaves out the sales without a matching certificate, so it describes most of the market and misses the rest.
At the 2021 Census about 46% of Hextable's homes had three bedrooms and about 30% had four or more. Two-bedroom homes made up about 19% and one-bedroom homes about 5%. A village with that mix has almost nothing for someone buying alone. It was built for families of four, and families of four are what it costs to buy into.
Houses in Hextable are expensive for what they are: ordinary family homes at prices close to the London fringe, set against local incomes that don't come close to covering them. Value is the weakest thing about the place.