A typical house in Virginia Water sells for about £850,000, and that's the middle of the range, not the top. Detached houses clear a million. Flats are the only thing under half a million. Half the homes have four bedrooms or more. The price is the gate, and it works better than the electric ones.
The Land Registry recorded 45 sales in the year to late May 2026, with a median price of £850,000. Detached houses went for a median of about £1,265,000 across 19 sales. Terraces came in at about £885,000, but on only five sales, so treat that as a few nice cottages changing hands rather than a going rate. Semi-detached houses fetched about £605,000 across 11 sales, and flats about £331,000 across ten. The semi is the bargain of the village, which tells you everything about the village.
The published house-price index for the local area rose 2% in the twelve months to May 2026, with an average price of about £482,000 across that wider index area. Flats in the same index slipped by half a percent. Neither figure is dramatic. Nobody here is watching the index anyway; they're watching who bought the house next door.
Band G is the most common council-tax band, and only about 5% of homes sit in bands A or B. Band D across Runnymede costs about £2,490 a year, which is the figure to hold against your current bill. Most homes here sit several bands above it, and the council has noticed.
The only rent figure available covers the whole borough: the typical private rent across the Runnymede area is about £1,570 a month as of April 2026, down about 3% on a year earlier. That's an average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of local listings. By size, it runs to about £1,070 for one bedroom, £1,380 for two, £1,660 for three and £2,390 for four or more. Those are borough averages, and a four-bedroom house on a private road in Virginia Water isn't what the borough average has in mind.
Local household income was modelled at about £69,000 a year before tax for the financial year to March 2023. Set that against a median sale price of £850,000 and a salary alone won't get anyone through the door. That's a well-paid area pricing itself beyond its own well-paid residents, and the buyers who manage it are usually carrying equity from somewhere more expensive.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 60% of them, the median price was about £5,540 per square metre. The typical floor area behind those sales was about 160 square metres. That's a lot of house, and the price per metre is what stops it feeling like a lot of house for the money.
The 2021 Census puts about 49% of homes at four bedrooms or more, 24% at three, 21% at two and 6% at one. Anyone searching for a starter home is searching the smallest slice of the stock. The one-bedroom flat exists here mainly so the statistics have a bottom row.
Houses in Virginia Water are expensive even by Surrey standards, and value is the weakest thing about the place. The gates keep nobody out. The prices do.