Chesham house prices are built from 13,328 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £240,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +37.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.2%.
Median price paid
£240,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+37.9%
Change in real terms
-1.2%
Median per m²
£3,051
HM Land Registry13,328 sales2,907 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Chesham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Chesham 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 | £84,000 | £186,520 |
| 2000s | 10 | £199,950 | £364,250 |
| 2010s | 10 | £280,000 | £394,800 |
| 2020s | 7 | £435,000 | £444,457 |
The highest yearly median on record for Chesham is £475,000 in 2026; the lowest is £76,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £76,000 to £475,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £168,756, so the real change over the whole record is +181.5% — about +3.39% 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: +37.9% in cash against -1.2% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Kirtle Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 47 Sunnyside Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 33 Higham Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 2 Partridge Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 21 Hivings Park | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| 39 Darvell Drive | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 81 Lye Green Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £912,500 | £912,500 |
| 63 Aylward Gardens | 3 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £674,000 | £674,000 |
| 45 Eskdale Avenue | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| 26 Cavendish Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 5 Faithorn Close | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £885,000 | £885,000 |
| VALE END the Vale | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £740,000 | £740,000 |
| FLAT 11 COPSHAM HOUSE, 53 Broad Street | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £203,000 | £203,000 |
| 16 Sayward Close | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £610,000 | £610,000 |
| 37 Russell Court | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| FLAT A 2 Lindo Close | 12 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 182 Botley Road | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £725,000 | £725,000 |
| 8 the Grove | 29 Apr 2026 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,200,000 |
| 4 Appletree Walk | 28 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £412,000 | £412,000 |
| 39 Birch Way | 27 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 34 Glenister Road | 27 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £442,000 | £442,000 |
| 26 Codmore Crescent | 17 Apr 2026 | Detached | £657,000 | £657,000 |
| 17 Elmtree Hill | 15 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 18 Eskdale Avenue | 13 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £415,000 | £415,000 |
| 192 Botley Road | 10 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £720,000 | £720,000 |
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 Chesham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Kirtle Road | £128,000 (2002) | £375,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 47 Sunnyside Road | £82,500 (1999) | £445,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 33 Higham Road | £80,000 (1998) | £360,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 2 Partridge Close | £325,000 (2003) | £600,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 21 Hivings Park | £135,000 (2001) | £380,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 39 Darvell Drive | £87,900 (1996) | £650,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| 63 Aylward Gardens | £346,000 (2013) | £674,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 26 Cavendish Road | £106,000 (1997) | £425,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 45 Eskdale Avenue | £123,000 (1999) | £475,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 5 Faithorn Close | £435,000 (2002) | £885,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| VALE END the Vale | £172,000 (1999) | £740,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 11 COPSHAM HOUSE, 53 Broad Street | £169,950 (2015) | £203,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chesham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 4,219 | 31.7% | £211,000 | £400 – £2,250,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3,988 | 29.9% | £250,000 | £24,400 – £1,360,000 |
| Detached | 2,868 | 21.5% | £442,500 | £12,532 – £4,400,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2,253 | 16.9% | £162,000 | £2,500 – £525,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Chesham
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,894 certificates cover Chesham, and their median floor area is 78 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 78 m² | about 840 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 61 m² | about 657 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 103 m² | about 1,106 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 23.8% | 690 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 11.3% | 327 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Chesham
2,385 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,943 freehold — 17.9% 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 £162,000 and the median freehold sale £270,000 — a gap of +66.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2,385 | 17.9% | £162,000 |
| Freehold | 10,943 | 82.1% | £270,000 |
| New build | 575 | 4.3% | £250,000 |
| Existing home | 12,753 | 95.7% | £240,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +4.2%. 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 658 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 09
How Chesham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chesham sits above that national figure — +52.4%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,051 per square metre, across 2,907 of the 13,328 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 £400 to £4,400,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Chesham
- Waterside413 sales
- Chartridge Lane401 sales
- Eskdale Avenue336 sales
- Bellingdon Road320 sales
- Berkhampstead Road278 sales
- Bois Moor Road269 sales
- Sunnyside Road229 sales
- Broad Street205 sales
- Severalls Avenue182 sales
- Berkeley Avenue168 sales
- Woodley Hill168 sales
- Hivings Hill167 sales
- Vale Road166 sales
- White Hill163 sales
- Nalders Road155 sales
- Frances Street150 sales
- Lye Green Road149 sales
- Lynton Road143 sales
- Church Street139 sales
- Cameron Road137 sales
- Stoney Grove136 sales
- Botley Road125 sales
- Higham Road123 sales
- Hospital Hill118 sales
- Ridgeway Road113 sales
- Town Bridge Court109 sales
- Germain Street106 sales
- Lowndes Avenue106 sales
- Rose Drive106 sales
- Darvell Drive100 sales
- Goose Acre100 sales
- Brockhurst Road99 sales
- Chessmount Rise99 sales
- Chesham Road94 sales
- Farriers Way90 sales
- Alma Road89 sales
- Greenway87 sales
- Kirtle Road82 sales
- Cavendish Road80 sales
- Glenister Road79 sales
- Lycrome Road79 sales
- High Street78 sales
- West View78 sales
- Russell Court76 sales
- Upper Belmont Road76 sales
- Broadlands Avenue75 sales
- Latimer Road71 sales
- Mount Nugent71 sales
- Groves Way70 sales
- Gladstone Road69 sales
- The Spinney68 sales
- Poles Hill66 sales
- Treachers Close64 sales
- Two Dells Lane63 sales
- Hivings Park62 sales
- Codmore Crescent60 sales
- Forelands Way58 sales
- Alexander Street57 sales
- Little Hivings57 sales
- Aylward Gardens56 sales
Postcode districts covering Chesham
- HP5£240,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Chesham?
The median price paid in Chesham across every sale on the register is £240,000. 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 Chesham?
13,328 sales are on record for Chesham, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Chesham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +37.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Chesham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £475,000, set in 2026. 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 Chesham?
£3,051 per square metre, from the 2,907 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 18 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, “Chesham 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.