Princes Risborough house prices are built from 7,039 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +26.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.7%.
Median price paid
£320,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+26.1%
Change in real terms
-9.7%
Median per m²
£3,370
HM Land Registry7,039 sales901 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Princes Risborough prices moved
The chart tracks the median Princes Risborough 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 | £120,000 | £266,457 |
| 2000s | 10 | £270,000 | £491,860 |
| 2010s | 10 | £365,000 | £514,650 |
| 2020s | 7 | £500,000 | £510,870 |
The highest yearly median on record for Princes Risborough is £526,000 in 2025; the lowest is £105,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £105,000 to £510,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £233,150, so the real change over the whole record is +118.7% — about +2.56% 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: +26.1% in cash against -9.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 CHILTERN LODGE Longwick Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £422,500 | £422,500 |
| 1 SUNSET COURT High Street | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| 9 Crown Way | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £592,500 | £592,500 |
| 7 Farmers Way | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 8 Lammas Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £280,931 | £280,931 |
| 30 St Teresas Close | 26 May 2026 | Detached | £837,500 | £837,500 |
| 12 Westmead | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £560,000 | £560,000 |
| 99 Goodearl Place | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £555,000 | £555,000 |
| SPRING COTTAGE Chapel Hill | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £735,000 | £735,000 |
| 4 Violet Close | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £825,000 | £825,000 |
| 1 QUEENS COTTAGE Lower Icknield Way | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £630,000 | £630,000 |
| 11 the Avenue | 14 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £550,000 |
| SHANGRI-la Letter Box Lane | 12 May 2026 | Detached | £750,000 | £750,000 |
| 11 Salisbury Close | 11 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 16 Bell Lane | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| 33 CHILTERN LODGE Longwick Road | 7 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £120,000 |
| Hunters Moon | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £700,000 | £700,000 |
| 51 Wickfields | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £680,000 | £680,000 |
| 15 Mead Close | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| YEW TREE COTTAGE Foundry Lane | 29 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 53 EAVES COURT the Retreat | 29 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 13 Bell Crescent | 28 Apr 2026 | Detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
| ROSEWOOD COTTAGE the Butts | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £725,000 | £725,000 |
| 21 Oak Road | 24 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £333,000 | £333,000 |
| 5 Woodlands | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £480,000 |
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 Princes Risborough values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 SUNSET COURT High Street | £400,000 (2024) | £380,000 (2026) | -2.5% | -5.0% |
| 18 CHILTERN LODGE Longwick Road | £486,950 (2021) | £422,500 (2026) | -2.8% | -7.2% |
| 9 Crown Way | £599,995 (2024) | £592,500 (2026) | -0.6% | -3.1% |
| 8 Lammas Close | £675,000 (2020) | £280,931 (2026) | -13.6% | -17.2% |
| 7 Farmers Way | £400,000 (2020) | £450,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -2.3% |
| 30 St Teresas Close | £170,000 (1996) | £837,500 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 12 Westmead | £101,000 (1996) | £560,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 99 Goodearl Place | £475,000 (2021) | £555,000 (2026) | +3.2% | -1.6% |
| SPRING COTTAGE Chapel Hill | £250,000 (1998) | £735,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 4 Violet Close | £570,000 (2014) | £825,000 (2026) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 1 QUEENS COTTAGE Lower Icknield Way | £315,000 (2003) | £630,000 (2026) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| SHANGRI-la Letter Box Lane | £285,000 (2003) | £750,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Princes Risborough 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 | 2,948 | 41.9% | £471,250 | £40,000 – £4,500,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,380 | 33.8% | £270,000 | £7,500 – £1,000,000 |
| Terraced | 870 | 12.4% | £250,000 | £32,500 – £1,440,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 841 | 11.9% | £192,000 | £8,000 – £720,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Princes Risborough
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,688 certificates cover Princes Risborough, and their median floor area is 85 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +11.8%. 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 | 85 m² | about 915 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 58 m² | about 624 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 125 m² | about 1,345 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 26.8% | 453 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 17.1% | 288 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Princes Risborough
884 of the sales on record are leasehold and 6,155 freehold — 12.6% 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 £190,000 and the median freehold sale £350,000 — a gap of +84.2%. 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 | 884 | 12.6% | £190,000 |
| Freehold | 6,155 | 87.4% | £350,000 |
| New build | 632 | 9.0% | £386,225 |
| Existing home | 6,407 | 91.0% | £310,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +24.6%. 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 308 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 Princes Risborough compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Princes Risborough sits above that national figure — +103.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,370 per square metre, across 901 of the 7,039 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 £7,500 to £4,500,000. 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 Princes Risborough
- Jasmine Crescent227 sales
- Summerleys Road167 sales
- Wycombe Road162 sales
- Wellington Avenue141 sales
- Main Road140 sales
- Poppy Road135 sales
- Westmead131 sales
- The Retreat128 sales
- Place Farm Way123 sales
- Longwick Road105 sales
- Aylesbury Road104 sales
- New Road104 sales
- Station Road104 sales
- Thame Road92 sales
- Manor Park Avenue91 sales
- Goodearl Place87 sales
- Crowbrook Road85 sales
- Stratton Road85 sales
- Clifford Road78 sales
- Lower Icknield Way77 sales
- Eastfield Road76 sales
- Malthouse Square76 sales
- Woodfield Road67 sales
- Berryfield Road66 sales
- Salisbury Close65 sales
- Woodbank65 sales
- Shortborough Avenue64 sales
- Mill Lane56 sales
- St Dunstan's Close56 sales
- Brooke Road55 sales
- Southfield Road55 sales
- Ivy Close54 sales
- Abbots Way52 sales
- Studridge Lane52 sales
- Upper Icknield Way51 sales
- Dunsmore Avenue49 sales
- Lower Road49 sales
- Parkfield Rise49 sales
- Chestnut Way48 sales
- Fairway47 sales
- Little Ham Lane45 sales
- Picts Lane45 sales
- Chapel Hill44 sales
- Elmdale Gardens42 sales
- High Street41 sales
- Park Street41 sales
- Shootacre Lane40 sales
- Wickfields40 sales
- Chinnor Road38 sales
- Loosley Hill38 sales
- Peters Lane38 sales
- Ash Road37 sales
- The Avenue36 sales
- Cadsden Road35 sales
- Kingsmead34 sales
- Little Park34 sales
- Merton Road34 sales
- Perry Lane34 sales
- Church Lane33 sales
- Milton Gardens33 sales
Postcode districts covering Princes Risborough
- HP27£320,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Princes Risborough?
The median price paid in Princes Risborough across every sale on the register is £320,000. 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 Princes Risborough?
7,039 sales are on record for Princes Risborough, the most recent completing on 17 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Princes Risborough house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +26.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Princes Risborough house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £526,000, set in 2025. 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 Princes Risborough?
£3,370 per square metre, from the 901 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 17 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, “Princes Risborough 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.