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Booker market report HP12 3, High Wycombe
The HP12 3 (Booker) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,675 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in HP12 3 (High Wycombe) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical HP12 3 (High Wycombe) home changed hands for £290,000 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £314,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,080 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,675 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HP12 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HP12 (High Wycombe). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where HP12 3 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's HP12 3 prices, from the sold record
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in HP12 3 and the middle price, the median, is £290,000. The mean lands at £314,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in HP12 3
The last five years of sales put HP12 3 at roughly £4,080 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HP12 3 2% above the country at large.
The price of a typical HP12 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £289,000 | £295,911 | 96 |
| 2024 | £292,500 | £310,988 | 116 |
| 2023 | £287,500 | £315,892 | 98 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 141 |
| 2021 | £256,500 | £324,762 | 132 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 79 |
| 2019 | £253,500 | £332,278 | 90 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 108 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 160 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 173 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 147 |
| 2014 | £207,000 | £293,666 | 191 |
| 2013 | £180,500 | £259,721 | 122 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 110 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 106 |
| 2010 | £164,500 | £257,978 | 114 |
| 2009 | £158,500 | £254,790 | 92 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 125 |
| 2007 | £176,500 | £299,393 | 323 |
| 2006 | £174,000 | £302,042 | 290 |
| 2005 | £147,000 | £261,601 | 224 |
| 2004 | £152,500 | £276,970 | 227 |
| 2003 | £143,200 | £263,809 | 268 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 323 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 295 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 293 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 301 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 276 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 263 |
| 1996 | £53,400 | £112,618 | 208 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical HP12 3 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 162%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HP12 3 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2017 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.3% | −2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
HP12 3 recorded 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 280 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around HP12 3
For renting purposes HP12 3 sits in Buckinghamshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,477 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,036 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,364 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Buckinghamshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, which against the £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How HP12 3 trades
This is a thin market: 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the HP12 district median, HP12 3 sits 28% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about HP12 3 (Booker)
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What happens to HP12 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in HP12 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP12 district, not just HP12 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- West Wycombe Road, High Wycombe, HP12, High Wycombe
- Glenister Road, High Wycombe, HP12, High Wycombe
- West Wycombe Road, High Wycombe, HP12, High Wycombe
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every HP12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in HP: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HP area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £470,500 | £632,250 (+34%) | £930,000 (+47%) | £1,395,000 (+50%) |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | £396,000 (+26%) | £480,000 (+21%) | £636,250 (+33%) | £842,500 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £296,000 | £370,000 (+25%) | £425,000 (+15%) | £540,000 (+27%) | £780,000 (+44%) |
| Flat | £210,000 | £280,000 (+33%) | £474,500 (+69%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
HP area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in HP12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of HP12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP12 4 | £425,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full HP12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HP12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HP12 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP12 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP12 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP12 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HP12 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HP12 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual HP12 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.