Market Square, Buckingham house prices

Market Square, Buckingham house prices are built from 100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 26 Feb 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £104,500. Across the 11 years from 2003 to 2014 the median moved +26.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.2%.

HM Land Registry100 sales9 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Feb 2025

The chart tracks the median Market Square, Buckingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2014. 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 Market Square, Buckingham is £125,000 in 2014; the lowest is £51,000 in 2000. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £125,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,138, so the real change over the whole record is +53.1% — about +2.39% 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: +26.3% in cash against -4.2% 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 Market Square, 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. Market Square, Buckingham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

80 of the sales on record are leasehold and 20 freehold — 80.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £100,000 and the median freehold sale £232,500 — a gap of +132.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -51.4%. 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 27 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 £104,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.95% 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. Market Square, Buckingham sits below that national figure — -33.7%.

Within Buckingham the street ranks 562 of 579 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £222,000 (-52.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,111 per square metre, across 9 of the 100 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 £26,450 to £525,000. 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.

Market Square, 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 nearby

• Main Street£280,000 median
• 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 9, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square8 sales
• FLAT 6, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square7 sales
• 13 Market Square6 sales
• FLAT 2, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square6 sales
• FLAT 6A, 6 – 7 Market Square5 sales
• FLAT 6, 6 – 7 Market Square5 sales
• FLAT 1, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square5 sales
• 7B Market Square4 sales
• 5 Market Square4 sales
• FLAT 10, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square4 sales
• 7A Market Square3 sales
• FLAT 7, 6 – 7 Market Square3 sales
• 15 Market Square3 sales
• 9A and 9B Market Square3 sales
• FLAT 2, 15 Market Square3 sales
• 16 Market Square2 sales
• FLAT 5, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square2 sales
• 9B Market Square2 sales
• 4 Market Square2 sales
• FLAT 1, 15 Market Square2 sales
• FLAT 11, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square2 sales
• 23 Market Square2 sales
• FLAT 8, MARKHAMS COURT Market Square2 sales

Back to Buckingham house prices.

What is the average house price in Market Square, Buckingham?

The median price paid in Market Square, Buckingham across every sale on the register is £104,500. 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 Market Square, Buckingham?

100 sales are on record for Market Square, Buckingham, the most recent completing on 26 Feb 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Market Square, Buckingham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +26.3% between 2003 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Market Square, Buckingham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £125,000, set in 2014. 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 Market Square, Buckingham?

£1,111 per square metre, from the 9 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 Feb 2025. 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, “Market Square, 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.