The typical Sturry house sells for about £325,000, and it's usually a semi. Semis outsell everything else. A detached house takes you past half a million. Flats barely come up, and they're cheap when they do. This is a market for people who stopped pretending they wanted a flat some years ago.
In the Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026, 63 homes sold at a median of £325,000. Semis made up the biggest group, 31 sales at a median of £335,000. The 15 detached houses went for about £520,000. The 10 terraces went for about £271,000, and the seven flats for about £160,000. Seven flat sales in a year is barely a market. An estate agent will call it "limited availability". A first-time buyer will call it a waiting game with a price attached.
The house price index for the wider area was up 5% in the twelve months to May 2026, with an average price of about £347,000. Flats rose 2% over the same period, so the flats that are cheap to buy are also the ones barely moving. Those figures cover the whole index area, not just Sturry's streets, and they describe the past twelve months, not the next.
Band C is the most common council-tax band in Sturry, and about 24% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home pays about £2,419 a year, which is the figure to hold up against your current bill. Plenty of the housing here is on the solid middle of the list, and that's where the bills sit too.
Renters have no Sturry-only figure to go on. The typical private rent across the Canterbury area was about £1,270 a month as of April 2026, up 5% on the year. That's a mean from the Office for National Statistics' price index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, a one-bed averaged about £870, a two-bed about £1,120, a three-bed about £1,350 and a four-bed or bigger about £1,890. The number covers the whole district, city streets and all, so it's a guide to the area, not a quote for a semi on the edge of the village.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £55,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is a few years old, and prices haven't waited for it. Against a £325,000 median, buying here is manageable for two earners with a deposit and a stretch for one. The semi is priced for the couple who both work, and the village is full of them.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 86% of the year's total, the median price was about £3,600 per square metre, on a typical floor area of about 88 square metres. That's a medium-sized family house, not a cottage and not a mansion, which describes most of Sturry's streets.
The 2021 Census shows what's on offer by bedroom count: about 8% of homes have one bedroom, 30% have two, 41% have three and 21% have four or more. The three-bed is the default here, and a one-bed is almost a collector's item. Buyers searching for small places will spend more time refreshing the listings than viewing anything.
Sturry is middling on price: not a bargain, not a stretch for a two-income household, and very much a semi-detached market. Come with a family-house budget or come prepared to wait.