The Common, High Wycombe house prices are built from 178 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 26 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £312,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +85.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +34.5%.
Median price paid
£312,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+85.6%
Change in real terms
+34.5%
HM Land Registry178 salesLatest sale 26 Feb 2026
Section 01
How The Common, High Wycombe prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Common, 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 | 3 | £149,250 | £331,406 |
| 2000s | 5 | £242,500 | £441,764 |
| 2010s | 8 | £330,000 | £465,300 |
| 2020s | 5 | £565,000 | £577,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Common, High Wycombe is £625,000 in 2024; the lowest is £95,000 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £168,500 to £612,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £365,515, so the real change over the whole record is +71.2% — about +1.87% 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: +85.6% in cash against +34.5% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esme Cottage | 26 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £386,380 | £386,380 |
| Bramley Cottage | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £530,000 | £541,522 |
| Oak Tree Cottage | 26 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £570,000 | £582,391 |
| Threeways | 8 Aug 2025 | Detached | £655,000 | £669,239 |
| Homeside | 9 Jul 2025 | Detached | £757,500 | £773,967 |
| Beechwood | 27 Mar 2025 | Detached | £860,000 | £878,696 |
| 7 | 24 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £307,500 | £314,185 |
| Old Barley Mow | 9 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £610,000 | £641,866 |
| 1 Maple Tree Cottages | 21 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £520,858 |
| Twin Firs | 25 Sep 2024 | Detached | £640,000 | £673,433 |
| Old Farm Cottage | 29 Aug 2024 | Detached | £677,500 | £712,892 |
| Hawes Green | 29 Apr 2024 | Detached | £1,000,000 | £1,052,239 |
| The Haven | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £462,500 | £486,660 |
| 2 Pleasant View | 10 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| Greenhaven | 12 Jul 2023 | Detached | £1,355,000 | £1,464,023 |
| 2 Golf Link Cottages | 1 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £565,000 | £610,460 |
| 6 | 9 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| Hope Cottage | 13 Dec 2022 | Detached | £880,000 | £1,019,556 |
| Abingdon House | 4 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| Weathercock Lodge | 21 Jul 2022 | Detached | £630,000 | £729,910 |
| 7 | 18 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £282,500 | £327,301 |
| Flagmore House | 27 May 2022 | Detached | £795,000 | £921,076 |
| Granview | 1 Mar 2022 | Detached | £500,000 | £579,293 |
| 2 Moorland Cottages | 25 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £540,000 | £682,258 |
| Green View | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £566,000 | £715,108 |
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 The Common, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESME COTTAGE the Common | £95,000 (1997) | £386,380 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| BRAMLEY COTTAGE the Common | £94,000 (1995) | £530,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| OAK TREE COTTAGE the Common | £70,000 (1997) | £570,000 (2025) | +7.8% | +5.0% |
| THREEWAYS the Common | £275,000 (2000) | £655,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.8% |
| 7 the Common | £172,000 (2016) | £307,500 (2025) | +6.7% | +3.0% |
| 1 MAPLE TREE COTTAGES the Common | £345,000 (2013) | £495,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| TWIN FIRS the Common | £114,130 (2005) | £640,000 (2024) | +9.5% | +6.4% |
| OLD FARM COTTAGE the Common | £380,750 (2004) | £677,500 (2024) | +2.9% | +0.0% |
| THE HAVEN the Common | £235,000 (2000) | £462,500 (2024) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| 2 PLEASANT VIEW the Common | £325,000 (2013) | £250,000 (2023) | -2.6% | -5.5% |
| GREENHAVEN the Common | £485,000 (2014) | £1,355,000 (2023) | +12.1% | +8.6% |
| 2 GOLF LINK COTTAGES the Common | £370,000 (2013) | £565,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Common, 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 | 76 | 42.7% | £500,000 | £99,200 – £1,860,000 |
| Terraced | 60 | 33.7% | £260,000 | £40,000 – £610,000 |
| Semi-detached | 41 | 23.0% | £295,000 | £70,000 – £685,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.6% | £345,000 | £345,000 – £345,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Common, High Wycombe
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 176 freehold — 1.1% 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 £257,000 and the median freehold sale £312,500 — a gap of +21.6%. 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 | 1.1% | £257,000 |
| Freehold | 176 | 98.9% | £312,500 |
| New build | 3 | 1.7% | £345,000 |
| Existing home | 175 | 98.3% | £310,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +11.3%. 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 11 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 The Common, 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 £312,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.67% 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 HP15, 63 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 30 violent, 4 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 5 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 The Common, 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.
10 state and independent schools have a HP15 postcode: 8 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holmer Green Senior School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,244 |
| Sir William Ramsay School | Secondary | Academy converter | 984 |
| Great Kingshill Church of England Combined School | Primary | Academy converter | 451 |
| Holmer Green Junior School | Primary | Community school | 250 |
| Cedar Park School & Nursery | Primary | Community school | 216 |
| Manor Farm Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 202 |
| Widmer End Community Combined School | Primary | Community school | 184 |
| Hazlemere Church of England Combined School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 181 |
| Holmer Green First School and Pre-School | Primary | Community school | 170 |
| Manor Farm Community Infant School | Primary | Community school | 132 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| High Wycombe Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Great Missenden Rail Station | Rail | 5.0 km |
| Beaconsfield Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Amersham Underground Station | Metro or underground | 7.3 km |
Section 09
How The Common, High Wycombe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Common, High Wycombe sits above that national figure — +98.4%.
Within High Wycombe the street ranks 482 of 1356 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £220,000 (+42.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £40,000 to £1,860,000. 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.
The Common, 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
- Amersham Road£250,000 median
- Penn Road£255,000 median
- Cedar Avenue£245,000 median
- Marys Mead£285,000 median
- St Johns Road£270,000 median
- Brackley Road£234,500 median
- Green Street£143,000 median
- Roberts Ride£306,000 median
- De Havilland Drive£357,250 median
- Georges Hill£204,950 median
- Columbine Road£230,000 median
- Badger Way£238,975 median
- Rose Avenue£205,500 median
- Wellfield£199,975 median
- Spurlands End Road£540,000 median
- Sawpit Hill£274,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- ESME COTTAGE the Common6 sales
- BRAMLEY COTTAGE the Common6 sales
- 7 the Common4 sales
- 6 the Common4 sales
- WEATHERCOCK LODGE the Common4 sales
- 1, ROSE COTTAGES the Common4 sales
- COBBLERS COTTAGE the Common4 sales
- OAK COTTAGE the Common4 sales
- 3, the COTTAGES the Common4 sales
- SPINNEY COTTAGE the Common4 sales
- MOUNT PLEASANT the Common4 sales
- TWIN FIRS the Common3 sales
- OLD FARM COTTAGE the Common3 sales
- THE HAVEN the Common3 sales
- BRAMLEY COTTAGE 1, the COTTAGES the Common3 sales
- 1, BAKERY COTTAGES the Common3 sales
- THE OLD CHAPEL the Common3 sales
- BEECH TREE COTTAGE the Common3 sales
- APRIL COTTAGE the Common3 sales
- OAK TREE COTTAGE the Common2 sales
- THREEWAYS the Common2 sales
- 1, MAPLE TREE COTTAGES the Common2 sales
- 2, PLEASANT VIEW the Common2 sales
- GREENHAVEN the Common2 sales
Back to High Wycombe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Common, High Wycombe?
The median price paid in The Common, High Wycombe across every sale on the register is £312,500. 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 The Common, High Wycombe?
178 sales are on record for The Common, High Wycombe, the most recent completing on 26 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Common, High Wycombe house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +85.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +34.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Common, High Wycombe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £625,000, set in 2024. 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 The Common, High Wycombe?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Feb 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, “The Common, 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.