A typical Tottenham home sells for about £458,000. A flat costs a good deal less than that, and a terraced house a good deal more. Terraces and flats make up nearly every sale. Semis hardly ever come up. Tottenham is a terrace market, priced in London money.
The Land Registry recorded 273 sales in Tottenham in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £458,000. The two main property types sold in almost equal numbers and at very different prices. The 129 flats went for a median of £350,000, and the 134 terraced houses for about £564,000. Only nine semi-detached houses changed hands, at a median of about £490,000. Nine sales is too small a sample to price a semi from, and the market here comes down to which side of £458,000 you can afford. Most of those terraces went up after the 1870s, when the railway's cheap workman's fares turned the market gardens into streets of homes for city clerks. The cheap fares have long gone, and so has the cheap part.
Prices moved only a little. The official house price index puts the area's average at about £634,000 as of May 2026, up 2.4% on a year earlier. That index covers a wider patch and takes a mean, so it lands above the Land Registry median. Flats in the same index rose just 0.7% over the year, so a flat bought here is unlikely to have climbed much since it last sold.
Council tax is middling. Band C is the most common band in Tottenham, and about 32% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home costs about £2,314 a year, which is the figure to set against your current bill.
For renting, the Office for National Statistics index puts typical private rent across Haringey at about £2,210 a month. That is a mean for the whole borough, and the borough includes pricier streets than Tottenham's. By size, a one-bedroom home averages about £1,630 a month, a two-bed about £2,030, a three-bed about £2,350, and four bedrooms or more about £3,190. The index carries no figure for studios or rooms. Haringey rents rose about 2.4% over the year, the same pace as prices, so neither side of the buy-or-rent argument is getting much help.
Affordability is the hard part. The Office for National Statistics modelled Tottenham's median household income at about £58,700 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is gross, and it is three years old. Set against a £458,000 median sale, it leaves a lot to find from a deposit, a second salary or the bank of mum and dad. A terraced house at £564,000 asks for more again.
On price per square metre, the measured sales come to a median of about £6,400. That figure covers the 63% of sales the Land Registry could match to an energy certificate's floor area, and the typical home among them has about 84 square metres. The other third of sales are left out, and they skew towards homes that have not changed hands in a long time. If you are looking at a terrace, compare its price per square metre with recent sales on the same street, because a loft conversion can lift the headline price without making the house any better value per square metre.
The 2021 Census shows what the stock holds by bedroom count. About 25% of households have one bedroom, 35% have two, 29% have three, and 11% have four or more. Two-bedroom homes are the most common size, which fits a stock where flats make up the largest share. Buyers who need a fourth bedroom are competing for the smallest slice of it.
Tottenham costs about what you would expect for inner London, neither a bargain nor a stretch beyond reason, and the terraces at about £564,000 are where buyers who stretch end up.