Buckingham house prices

Buckingham house prices are built from 20,511 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £222,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +15.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -17.5%.

HM Land Registry20,511 sales2,515 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Buckingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Buckingham is £399,975 in 2022; the lowest is £72,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £72,000 to £370,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £159,874, so the real change over the whole record is +131.4% — about +2.74% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +15.2% in cash against -17.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Buckingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Buckingham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,113 certificates cover Buckingham, and their median floor area is 88 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +15.8%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

1,307 of the sales on record are leasehold and 19,204 freehold — 6.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £135,000 and the median freehold sale £232,950 — a gap of +72.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +35.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 934 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £222,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.98% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of MK18, 22 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 12 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 7.6 times quieter.

Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.04 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

18 state and independent schools have a MK18 postcode: 15 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Buckingham sits above that national figure — +41.0%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,636 per square metre, across 2,515 of the 20,511 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £5,000 to £5,040,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Buckingham sits in Buckinghamshire, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Buckingham

• Main Street606 sales
• High Street553 sales
• Avenue Road286 sales
• West Street224 sales
• Buckingham Road212 sales
• Magpie Way204 sales
• Moorhen Way192 sales
• Burleigh Piece181 sales
• Embleton Way179 sales
• Moreton Road179 sales
• Cotswolds Way175 sales
• Fishers Field166 sales
• Station Road152 sales
• Church Street148 sales
• Aris Way145 sales
• Nelson Street144 sales
• Vicarage Close142 sales
• Deerfield Close141 sales
• Hare Close136 sales
• Small Crescent134 sales
• Well Street132 sales
• Kiln Close130 sales
• Needlepin Way129 sales
• Manor Park127 sales
• Treefields127 sales
• Ashgrove122 sales
• Waine Close122 sales
• Western Avenue121 sales
• Bernardines Way116 sales
• Lenborough Road116 sales
• Meadway115 sales
• Redshaw Close112 sales
• Badgers Way110 sales
• Market Square100 sales
• The Maltings99 sales
• Bridge Street98 sales
• Gawcott Road98 sales
• Glebe Close98 sales
• Bourton Road97 sales
• Lime Avenue96 sales
• Vicarage Lane96 sales
• Longlands Court94 sales
• Mitre Street93 sales
• Mare Leys92 sales
• Swallow Close90 sales
• Winslow Road89 sales
• Leapingwell Lane87 sales
• North End Road87 sales
• Pillow Way85 sales
• Clover End81 sales
• Horn Street80 sales
• Overn Avenue79 sales
• Rudds Close78 sales
• Willow Drive78 sales
• Angels Close77 sales
• Woodlands Crescent77 sales
• Summerhouse Hill76 sales
• Mallard Drive75 sales
• Sandy Road74 sales
• Whitehead Way74 sales

Postcode districts covering Buckingham

• MK18£222,000 median

What is the average house price in Buckingham?

The median price paid in Buckingham across every sale on the register is £222,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Buckingham?

20,511 sales are on record for Buckingham, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Buckingham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +15.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -17.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Buckingham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £399,975, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Buckingham?

£2,636 per square metre, from the 2,515 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Buckingham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.