About £445,000, and that's the polite end of the street. Detached houses go for around £800,000. Flats are the cheapest way in, at about £250,000, and hardly any come up. Four in ten homes have four bedrooms or more. Mayfield prices its houses for buyers who are selling one first.
The Land Registry recorded 23 sales in Mayfield in the year to January 2026, at a typical price of about £445,000. That single figure blends four different markets. Five flats sold at a median of about £250,000, nine semi-detached houses at around £425,000, three terraces at about £445,000 and six detached houses at roughly £800,000. With counts that small, one farmhouse with a paddock can move the whole average, so treat the detached figure as a direction of travel and not a price list. The cheap end is a flat, and there were five of those all year.
Prices aren't running away. The official house price index for the area was down 1% over the twelve months to May 2026, which is small enough to count as standing still. Flats fell further, down about 4% over the same period. That won't turn a £250,000 flat into a bargain, but first-time buyers get a little more room to negotiate than the owners of the big detached houses.
Council tax follows the housing. The most common band in Mayfield is G, and only 11% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill in the area runs to about £2,728 a year, and most homes here are several bands above D. Anyone modelling their monthly costs from a listing's asking price and nothing else is in for a surprise from the council.
Renting is priced for the wider district. Typical private rent across the Wealden area was about £1,260 a month as of April 2026. That figure is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of advertised listings, and it describes Wealden as a whole, not Mayfield itself. By size, the Wealden averages run from about £895 for one bedroom and £1,140 for two to £1,420 for three and £2,090 for four or more. A four-bed rental around the conservation area is a long-term commitment to someone else's roof.
Local incomes are healthy but not in the same league as the house prices. The Office for National Statistics modelled average gross household income, before tax, at about £65,000 for the financial year to March 2023. Against a typical sale of £445,000, that is a stretch for a household buying on salary alone. Mayfield sells mostly to people bringing equity from an earlier sale, and the prices assume they are.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 26% of the year's total, the median price was about £4,100 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 93 square metres. That is a thin sample, six sales in all, so use it as a rough guide to what space costs and not as a formula. Old houses with thick walls and awkward staircases also cost more per usable square metre than the headline suggests.
The stock is built for families who stayed. Census 2021 put about 9% of Mayfield's households in one-bedroom homes, 19% in two, 33% in three and 40% in four or more. For a buyer searching on bedrooms, the village's centre of gravity is the three-to-four-bed house, which is where the prices above land hardest.
Houses in Mayfield are expensive for what local incomes can carry, and the flat market is too small to offer much of a way in. It is poor value for anyone buying on wages alone, and a fair price only for those arriving with a sale behind them.