A typical home in Welling sells for about £466,000, and for that money you get an interwar semi on a street of other interwar semis. Semis go for nearer half a million. A flat costs under £250,000. Detached houses hardly ever come up for sale. In Welling, buying a house mostly means buying a semi.
In the Land Registry's year to May 2026, 295 homes sold in Welling at a median of about £466,000. Semis made up most of that, with 186 sales at about £490,000. There were 73 terraces at about £435,000 and 32 flats at about £243,000. Only four detached houses sold, at a median of £545,000, and four sales are too few to price anything from. The headline median is mostly the semi price pulled down slightly by the terraces and flats.
Prices are rising, slowly. The official house price index put the area's average at about £409,000 as of May 2026, up 2% on a year earlier. Flats went the other way, down by half a percent over the same twelve months. Neither number is big enough to build a strategy on. Anyone waiting for the local market to crash before buying should expect a long wait.
Band D is the most common council tax band in Welling, and only 7% of homes are in bands A or B. Bexley Council's band D bill is about £2,370 a year. Ask which band a house is in when you view it, because the extended semis here can sit a band above the unextended semi next door, and a bigger kitchen means a bigger bill every year.
Renting gives no cheap way in either. Across the Bexley area, private rents averaged about £1,520 a month as of April 2026, on the Office for National Statistics' rental index. That is a mean for the whole borough, not a median of local listings. By size, a one-bedroom averages about £1,220, a two-bedroom about £1,520, a three-bedroom about £1,850 and a four-bedroom or larger about £2,410. A three-bed semi to rent costs close to the same each month as a two-bed elsewhere costs to buy, which is why so many tenants here are saving for a deposit.
Against income, Welling is a stretch, but a reachable one for two earners. The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £77,000 for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area. A £466,000 median against that income suits a couple who both work and plan to stay. One salary will struggle to cover it.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which was 96% of them, the median price was about £5,400 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure is about 85 square metres. That is a three-bed semi with one bathroom, a through-lounge and a garden, and the price per square metre is the number to hold up against the asking price of any house you view.
That three-bed is the home most buyers here end up looking at. At the 2021 census, 53% of Welling's households lived in three-bedroom homes, 23% in four or more, 19% in two and 6% in one. A first-time buyer hoping for a cheap one-bed has very little stock to choose from.
Welling's house prices are middling: nowhere near cheap and nowhere near silly, and the money buys a full family semi for the price of a small flat further into London.