About £440,000 for the middle of the market. A flat goes for about £285,000. A semi takes well over half a million. Prices have barely moved in a year. Sutton is cheap only when you hold it up against the rest of London.
The Land Registry recorded 337 sales in Sutton in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £440,000. That middle figure covers four quite different markets. The 122 flats sold at a median of £285,000 and the 98 terraces at about £474,000. The 104 semis went for £565,000, and the 13 detached houses for £675,000. With only 13 detached sales, that last figure moves a lot on one big house, and the semi is the real top of the ordinary market here.
The direction of travel is flat. The house-price index for the Sutton area put the average at about £445,000 in May 2026, up 0.9% on a year earlier and down 1.6% on the month before. Flats in the same index fell 1.4% over the twelve months. Over five years the average is up 11%. Those are past changes over a few seasons, and they say nothing firm about next year. A flat seller who quotes the five-year number and the flat buyer who quotes the twelve-month one are both telling the truth, and neither will enjoy the other's version.
Council tax is middling. Band C is the most common band, and only 12% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home pays about £2,380 a year to the London Borough of Sutton. The cheap bands are mostly found in the flats nobody is fighting over.
For renters, the Office for National Statistics index gives about £1,550 a month as the typical private rent across the Sutton borough in April 2026, a mean of all lettings, up 2.5% in a year. By size, the same borough figures run from about £1,230 for one bedroom and £1,545 for two to about £1,885 for three and £2,480 for four or more. The rent for a two-bedroom place and the borough-wide typical figure are almost identical, which tells you what most tenants here are renting.
Household income makes the sums tight without making them impossible. The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £80,000 a year for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area, or about £53,000 after tax. Those figures are three years old and are averages for an area, so they say little about any one household. A couple near that income can reach a flat comfortably. A semi takes a bigger deposit or the bank of mum and dad.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 74% of them, the median price was about £5,800 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure had about 83 square metres of floor space. If you are buying a flat, ask about the lease length and the service charge before you agree a price, because the borough index has flats going down while houses edge up.
The 2021 census counted the homes by size. About 18% have one bedroom, 34% two and 34% three, with 14% at four or more. Two- and three-bedroom homes make up two-thirds of the town, so a growing family will find plenty of choice and plenty of competition for it. The four-bedroom house is the rare one here, and it is priced that way.
Middling is the word for prices. Sutton costs less than inner London and asks a lot of an ordinary salary, and the bargains are mostly flats.