Straight Bit, High Wycombe house prices are built from 234 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 10 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £315,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +57.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +12.0%.
Median price paid
£315,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+57.3%
Change in real terms
+12.0%
Median per m²
£4,048
HM Land Registry234 sales15 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Straight Bit, High Wycombe prices moved
The chart tracks the median Straight Bit, High Wycombe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £122,500 | £272,008 |
| 2000s | 9 | £293,500 | £534,671 |
| 2010s | 6 | £380,000 | £535,800 |
| 2020s | 5 | £580,000 | £592,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Straight Bit, High Wycombe is £603,500 in 2022; the lowest is £63,000 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £122,500 to £565,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £265,731, so the real change over the whole record is +117.2% — about +2.71% 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: +57.3% in cash against +12.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 8 Fernlea Gardens | 10 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 2 | 8 Dec 2025 | Detached | £518,000 | £529,261 |
| Flat 5 Libra House | 17 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £148,000 | £151,217 |
| Orchard House | 14 Nov 2025 | Detached | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| 37a | 21 Aug 2025 | Detached | £600,000 | £613,043 |
| 83 | 14 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £565,000 | £577,283 |
| Flat 8 Capricorn House | 21 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| Park Cottage, 35 | 10 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £670,000 | £684,565 |
| Flat 5 Fernlea Gardens | 6 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £457,724 |
| Flat 11 Fernlea Gardens | 16 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £418,000 | £439,836 |
| 20 | 2 Jul 2024 | Detached | £912,000 | £959,642 |
| 132 | 21 Jun 2024 | Detached | £580,000 | £610,299 |
| 134 | 30 May 2024 | Detached | £610,000 | £641,866 |
| 67 | 28 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £635,000 | £668,172 |
| Flat 8 Fernlea Gardens | 21 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| 68 | 7 Mar 2024 | Detached | £1,130,000 | £1,189,030 |
| Flat 1 Fernlea Gardens | 12 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 27 | 28 Jul 2023 | Detached | £862,500 | £931,897 |
| 90 | 15 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £555,000 | £599,655 |
| 80 | 20 Jan 2023 | Detached | £825,000 | £891,379 |
| 99 | 15 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £755,000 | £874,733 |
| Cibola House | 9 Dec 2022 | Detached | £1,225,000 | £1,419,269 |
| 110 | 18 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £675,000 | £782,046 |
| 40 | 3 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £499,000 | £578,135 |
| Birdsong, 102a | 23 Sep 2022 | Detached | £562,000 | £651,126 |
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 Straight Bit, High Wycombe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 8 FERNLEA GARDENS Straight Bit | £425,000 (2024) | £425,000 (2026) | 0.0% | -2.5% |
| 2 Straight Bit | £302,500 (2009) | £518,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 5 LIBRA HOUSE Straight Bit | £48,500 (1997) | £148,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| ORCHARD HOUSE Straight Bit | £542,500 (2002) | £650,000 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| 83 Straight Bit | £93,000 (1995) | £565,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 8 CAPRICORN HOUSE Straight Bit | £57,450 (1999) | £220,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| PARK COTTAGE, 35 Straight Bit | £365,000 (2010) | £670,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| FLAT 5 FERNLEA GARDENS Straight Bit | £335,000 (2007) | £435,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 11 FERNLEA GARDENS Straight Bit | £302,500 (2007) | £418,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 20 Straight Bit | £209,000 (1996) | £912,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 134 Straight Bit | £180,500 (2002) | £610,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.8% |
| 67 Straight Bit | £117,500 (1998) | £635,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Straight Bit, High Wycombe 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 | 102 | 43.6% | £390,000 | £105,000 – £1,225,000 |
| Semi-detached | 66 | 28.2% | £340,000 | £90,000 – £755,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 57 | 24.4% | £190,000 | £44,750 – £435,000 |
| Terraced | 9 | 3.8% | £340,000 | £93,000 – £565,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Straight Bit, High Wycombe
55 of the sales on record are leasehold and 179 freehold — 23.5% 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 £180,000 and the median freehold sale £373,000 — a gap of +107.2%. 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 | 55 | 23.5% | £180,000 |
| Freehold | 179 | 76.5% | £373,000 |
| New build | 9 | 3.8% | £380,000 |
| Existing home | 225 | 96.2% | £312,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +21.6%. 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 12 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 Straight Bit, High Wycombe
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 £315,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.62% 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 HP10, 63 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 26 violent, 1 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times quieter.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.11 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 Straight Bit, High Wycombe
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.
7 state and independent schools have a HP10 postcode: 7 primary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juniper Hill School | Primary | Community school | 431 |
| Tylers Green Middle School | Primary | Community school | 255 |
| Carrington Junior School | Primary | Community school | 231 |
| St Paul's Church of England Combined School, Wooburn | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 225 |
| Tylers Green First School | Primary | Community school | 179 |
| Wooburn Green Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 177 |
| Carrington Infant School | Primary | Community school | 162 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bourne End Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Beaconsfield Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| High Wycombe Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Cookham Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
Section 09
How Straight Bit, High Wycombe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Straight Bit, High Wycombe sits above that national figure — +100.0%.
Within High Wycombe the street ranks 474 of 1356 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £220,000 (+43.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,048 per square metre, across 15 of the 234 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 £44,750 to £1,225,000. 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.
Straight Bit, High Wycombe 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
- London Road£170,000 median
- Wycombe Lane£237,750 median
- Boundary Road£223,000 median
- Heath End Road£305,670 median
- Knaves Hollow£118,500 median
- Hammersley Lane£550,000 median
- Church Road£646,275 median
- Northcroft£195,000 median
- Station Road£199,950 median
- Kite Wood Road£315,000 median
- Manor Road£1,035,000 median
- Aspen Road£369,400 median
- Hazlemere Road£380,250 median
- Ashley Drive£340,000 median
- Grange Drive£261,000 median
- Fennels Way£468,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 40 Straight Bit5 sales
- 13 Straight Bit5 sales
- 98B Straight Bit5 sales
- 134 Straight Bit4 sales
- 67 Straight Bit4 sales
- FLAT 6, LIBRA HOUSE Straight Bit4 sales
- 98A Straight Bit4 sales
- FLAT 10, FERNLEA GARDENS Straight Bit4 sales
- 32 Straight Bit4 sales
- FLAT 5, LIBRA HOUSE Straight Bit3 sales
- FLAT 8, CAPRICORN HOUSE Straight Bit3 sales
- PARK COTTAGE, 35 Straight Bit3 sales
- FLAT 11, FERNLEA GARDENS Straight Bit3 sales
- 20 Straight Bit3 sales
- 68 Straight Bit3 sales
- 27 Straight Bit3 sales
- 110 Straight Bit3 sales
- 38 Straight Bit3 sales
- 77 Straight Bit3 sales
- 77A Straight Bit3 sales
- FLAT 2, CAPRICORN HOUSE Straight Bit3 sales
- 53 Straight Bit3 sales
- NORLAND HOUSE Straight Bit3 sales
- FLAT 7, LIBRA HOUSE Straight Bit3 sales
Back to High Wycombe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Straight Bit, High Wycombe?
The median price paid in Straight Bit, High Wycombe across every sale on the register is £315,000. 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 Straight Bit, High Wycombe?
234 sales are on record for Straight Bit, High Wycombe, the most recent completing on 10 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Straight Bit, High Wycombe house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +57.3% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +12.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Straight Bit, High Wycombe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £603,500, 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 Straight Bit, High Wycombe?
£4,048 per square metre, from the 15 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 10 Apr 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, “Straight Bit, High Wycombe 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.