Common questions about Jersey property
The questions that come up most, answered from this site's own data and recalculated every time the page loads — so these figures never drift from what the rest of the site shows. Where an answer has working behind it, the link goes to it.
How much does a house cost in Jersey?
The midpoint asking price across the 1,546 properties currently for sale here is £765,000. That is an asking figure and it moves with what happens to be on the market, so it is a weaker guide than the sold register — see what has actually sold, or the price index for the trend rather than the level.
Have Jersey house prices gone up or down?
Over the last ten years the island's repeat-sales index is 53%, and since 2001 it is up 149%. See the year-by-year index — it is built from 4,624 properties that sold twice, so it measures the market rather than the mix of what sold.
What is the difference between Qualified (Local Market) and Registered (Open Market) housing?
Local Market ("Qualified") housing is restricted to people who meet Jersey's residential qualification under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012; Open Market ("Registered") has no residency restriction. Right now this site holds 48 Open Market and 1,660 Local Market listings that declare their status. The rules are the Government of Jersey's, not ours — check gov.je before committing to anything.
Why do some sold prices say £1?
30 rows on the Places.je register are recorded at a nominal £1, £10 or £100. That is the standard token consideration for a transfer inside a family or an inheritance settlement — not a market sale. This site labels every one of them and excludes them from every average it calculates.
What does "under offer" mean, and can I still look?
90 of the listings here are marked under offer or sold subject to contract, meaning a price has been agreed but the sale has not completed. Plenty of properties come back. See how completion actually works.
Will I get planning permission for an extension?
Jersey approves a lot of what is submitted: 86% of the 569 decided single-storey extension applications on file were approved. That number is flattered by self-selection — proposals unlikely to succeed often never get filed, or are withdrawn after pre-application advice — so it is not the odds on any conceivable scheme. The full approval-rate table by type of work.
Is an extension or loft conversion worth doing?
At the island midpoint of £7,438/m², added floor space is worth roughly that per square metre — against a build cost this site estimates from the work described (though see the caveat on that estimate: the build-cost side is currently a Guernsey figure, unverified for Jersey). See the value-versus-cost table, which also shows how often each type is approved.
What is my house worth?
There is no honest automatic valuation for Jersey, and this site does not pretend otherwise: the register records an address, a date and a price — no floor area, no coordinates, no property attributes. What you can see is every recorded sale of your house and your street, carried forward to today's money. Look up your address.
Why can I not search by postcode?
Because the Places.je sold-price register carries no postcode field at all. Searching by house name, street or parish works, because that is what the data actually holds.
How often is this updated, and where does it come from?
Listings refresh daily from 49 agents' own websites; the sold register and planning register on their own schedules. The full source table and what is inferred rather than known.
Do you take commission, or favour any agent?
No. This site is not an agent, is not owned by one, and earns nothing from where a property appears in its results.
Something here is wrong — how do I get it fixed?
Tell us and it gets fixed at the rule, not just the page. Mismatched sale or planning records, a stale status, two properties merged into one: how to report it.
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