Main Street, Buckingham house prices are built from 606 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 21 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £280,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +63.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +17.1%.
Median price paid
£280,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+63.4%
Change in real terms
+17.1%
Median per m²
£2,808
HM Land Registry606 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 21 May 2026
Section 01
How Main Street, Buckingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Street, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £122,250 | £271,453 |
| 2000s | 10 | £290,000 | £528,295 |
| 2010s | 10 | £325,196 | £458,526 |
| 2020s | 7 | £523,203 | £534,577 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Buckingham is £574,875 in 2023; the lowest is £84,450 in 1998. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £127,500 to £525,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £283,110, so the real change over the whole record is +85.4% — about +2.01% 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: +63.4% in cash against +17.1% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre Cottage | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| Sunnyside | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £820,000 | £820,000 |
| Holly Cottage | 31 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| Woodland Cottage | 27 Feb 2026 | Detached | £715,000 | £715,000 |
| Rose Cottage | 8 Jan 2026 | Detached | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| The Manor Stables | 6 Jan 2026 | Detached | £960,000 | £960,000 |
| Jasmine Cottage | 5 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 2 Lucas Cottages | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £321,500 | £328,489 |
| St. Catherines | 28 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £302,500 | £309,076 |
| Oak House | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £800,000 | £817,391 |
| Chapel House, 9 | 18 Jul 2025 | Detached | £783,000 | £800,022 |
| Fern Cottage | 7 Jul 2025 | Detached | £520,000 | £531,304 |
| Ancient Lights | 13 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £575,000 | £587,500 |
| Old Pages Cottage | 1 May 2025 | Detached | £207,500 | £212,011 |
| Bay Tree Cottage | 17 Apr 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| College Farm | 27 Feb 2025 | Detached | £950,000 | £970,652 |
| Sunnybank | 9 Jan 2025 | Detached | £690,000 | £705,000 |
| Warner House | 29 Nov 2024 | Detached | £808,000 | £850,209 |
| The Old Hat | 28 Nov 2024 | Detached | £833,500 | £877,041 |
| Bonnet Cottage | 28 Nov 2024 | Detached | £512,500 | £539,272 |
| Rose Cottage | 1 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £468,246 |
| Grig Cottage | 25 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| Hambledon Lodge | 13 Sep 2024 | Detached | £1,350,000 | £1,420,522 |
| Charity Cottage | 6 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £242,500 | £255,168 |
| Mulberry | 23 Aug 2024 | Detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Main Street, Buckingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENTRE COTTAGE Main Street | £45,000 (1996) | £245,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| SUNNYSIDE Main Street | £90,000 (2001) | £820,000 (2026) | +9.2% | +6.3% |
| HOLLY COTTAGE Main Street | £55,000 (1996) | £350,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| WOODLAND COTTAGE Main Street | £585,000 (2015) | £715,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.3% |
| ROSE COTTAGE Main Street | £134,000 (1999) | £525,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| THE MANOR STABLES Main Street | £330,000 (1999) | £960,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| JASMINE COTTAGE Main Street | £67,500 (1996) | £355,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 2 LUCAS COTTAGES Main Street | £89,950 (2001) | £321,500 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.6% |
| CHAPEL HOUSE, 9 Main Street | £535,000 (2006) | £783,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| FERN COTTAGE Main Street | £117,500 (1995) | £520,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| ANCIENT LIGHTS Main Street | £61,501 (1997) | £575,000 (2025) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| BAY TREE COTTAGE Main Street | £267,000 (2022) | £250,000 (2025) | -2.2% | -6.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, Buckingham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 328 | 54.1% | £370,000 | £49,500 – £1,793,000 |
| Semi-detached | 142 | 23.4% | £239,950 | £25,000 – £860,000 |
| Terraced | 134 | 22.1% | £182,500 | £31,500 – £650,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.3% | £72,500 | £72,500 – £92,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Street, Buckingham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 606 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 606 | 100.0% | £280,000 |
| New build | 10 | 1.7% | £365,000 |
| Existing home | 596 | 98.3% | £276,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +32.0%. 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 18 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.
Section 07
Living in Main Street, Buckingham
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
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 £280,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.33% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Main Street, Buckingham
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Latin School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,326 |
| Buckingham School | Secondary | Community school | 1,110 |
| Sir Thomas Fremantle School | Secondary | Free schools | 681 |
| Bourton Meadow Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 571 |
| Winslow Church of England School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 383 |
| Buckingham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 354 |
| Lace Hill Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 218 |
| Steeple Claydon School and Pre-School | Primary | Community school | 217 |
| Roundwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 192 |
| George Grenville Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 186 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Central Rail Station | Rail | 14.7 km |
| Wolverton Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Bicester North Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Bicester Village Rail Station | Rail | 15.5 km |
Section 09
How Main Street, Buckingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Buckingham sits above that national figure — +77.8%.
Within Buckingham the street ranks 236 of 579 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £222,000 (+26.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,808 per square metre, across 25 of the 606 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 £25,000 to £1,793,000. 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.
Main Street, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£149,950 median
- Avenue Road£129,250 median
- West Street£160,000 median
- Buckingham Road£141,250 median
- Magpie Way£145,000 median
- Moorhen Way£211,498 median
- Burleigh Piece£145,000 median
- Moreton Road£220,000 median
- Embleton Way£250,000 median
- Cotswolds Way£330,000 median
- Fishers Field£193,750 median
- Station Road£180,000 median
- Church Street£241,250 median
- Aris Way£267,000 median
- Nelson Street£130,000 median
- Vicarage Close£133,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- JASMINE COTTAGE Main Street14 sales
- 2 Main Street13 sales
- HOLLY COTTAGE Main Street10 sales
- SUNNYBANK Main Street7 sales
- ROSE COTTAGE Main Street6 sales
- CHAPEL HOUSE, 9 Main Street6 sales
- COLLEGE FARM Main Street6 sales
- CHURCH FARM COTTAGE Main Street6 sales
- THE OLD STABLES Main Street6 sales
- ANCIENT LIGHTS Main Street5 sales
- TREGARLAND Main Street5 sales
- 1, MOUNT PLEASANT Main Street5 sales
- 20 Main Street5 sales
- HERITAGE HOUSE Main Street5 sales
- 2, HILL COTTAGES Main Street5 sales
- FERN COTTAGES Main Street5 sales
- 8 Main Street5 sales
- 24 Main Street5 sales
- DOVE COTTAGE Main Street5 sales
- 2, GREYSTONE COTTAGES Main Street5 sales
- WOODLANDS Main Street5 sales
- LILAC COTTAGE Main Street5 sales
- 9 Main Street5 sales
- 2, LUCAS COTTAGES Main Street4 sales
Back to Buckingham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Street, Buckingham?
The median price paid in Main Street, Buckingham across every sale on the register is £280,000. 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 Main Street, Buckingham?
606 sales are on record for Main Street, Buckingham, the most recent completing on 21 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Street, Buckingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +63.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +17.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Street, Buckingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £574,875, set in 2023. 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 Main Street, Buckingham?
£2,808 per square metre, from the 25 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 21 May 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, “Main Street, 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.