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Chesham Bois market report HP6, Amersham
The standing HP6 (Chesham Bois) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 7,732 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HP6 (Amersham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical HP6 (Amersham) home changed hands for £700,000 in 2026 (median of 43 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £755,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,732 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
HP6 is a postcode district covering Amersham (north), Chesham Bois, Hyde Heath in Amersham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where HP6 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.
What buyers actually paid in HP6
In the HP6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £700,000, from 43 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £755,500, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in HP6
The last five years of sales put HP6 at roughly £6,560 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, HP6 sits 146% above the national market.
HP6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £700,000 | £700,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £770,000 | £788,413 | 196 |
| 2024 | £722,500 | £768,166 | 204 |
| 2023 | £675,000 | £741,660 | 171 |
| 2022 | £735,000 | £861,871 | 179 |
| 2021 | £675,500 | £855,270 | 292 |
| 2020 | £555,000 | £720,124 | 201 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 243 |
| 2018 | £665,000 | £886,458 | 203 |
| 2017 | £592,000 | £807,429 | 235 |
| 2016 | £565,000 | £790,441 | 218 |
| 2015 | £485,000 | £685,305 | 221 |
| 2014 | £390,000 | £553,283 | 250 |
| 2013 | £390,000 | £561,171 | 281 |
| 2012 | £385,000 | £566,672 | 299 |
| 2011 | £380,000 | £573,654 | 241 |
| 2010 | £435,000 | £682,192 | 213 |
| 2009 | £365,000 | £586,741 | 177 |
| 2008 | £405,000 | £663,881 | 148 |
| 2007 | £422,500 | £716,678 | 275 |
| 2006 | £340,000 | £590,197 | 320 |
| 2005 | £345,000 | £613,961 | 295 |
| 2004 | £341,600 | £620,412 | 259 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 235 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 294 |
| 2001 | £240,000 | £461,388 | 263 |
| 2000 | £215,000 | £421,938 | 289 |
| 1999 | £193,800 | £386,233 | 298 |
| 1998 | £150,000 | £302,786 | 279 |
| 1997 | £160,000 | £328,128 | 303 |
| 1996 | £127,500 | £268,892 | 314 |
| 1995 | £142,500 | £309,773 | 293 |
In cash terms the typical HP6 home went from £142,500 in 1995 to £700,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 126%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HP6 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 1999 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £925,000 against £415,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, HP6
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £925,000 | 13 | 3,091 |
| Semi-detached | £781,800 | 14 | 1,809 |
| Terraced | £580,800 | 8 | 1,133 |
| Flats | £415,000 | 8 | 1,699 |
Sales activity in HP6
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 130 HP6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 279 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around HP6
The local authority for HP6 is Buckinghamshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,477 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £700,000 median sold price, £1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, a gross yield of 2.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the HP6 market
Only 130 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HP6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Among the 24 measurable districts of its area, HP6 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Asked and answered: HP6 (Chesham Bois)
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What happens to HP6 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
HP6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in HP6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 29 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the HP6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Gayton Close, Chesham Bois, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6DW, Amersham
- Devonshire Close, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 5JG, Amersham
- The Gowers, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6ER, Amersham
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every HP6 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
HP6 ranks 19 of 24 in the HP area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, HP area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside HP6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP6 5 | £718,800 | 12 |
| HP6 6 | £680,000 | 31 |
How HP6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HP9 | £790,000 | -10% |
| HP8 | £721,800 | -9% |
| HP4 | £720,000 | +14% |
| HP6 (this report) | £700,000 | +4% |
| HP7 | £680,000 | +8% |
| HP16 | £587,500 | +0% |
| HP10 | £552,500 | +9% |
| HP17 | £552,500 | +15% |
| HP15 | £530,000 | +10% |
| HP27 | £515,000 | +3% |
| HP22 | £493,000 | +13% |
| HP5 | £483,500 | +15% |
| HP23 | £471,200 | -10% |
| HP14 | £467,500 | +4% |
| HP3 | £422,500 | +4% |
| HP1 | £415,000 | +11% |
| HP18 | £408,000 | +6% |
| HP12 | £405,000 | +25% |
| HP13 | £390,000 | +16% |
| HP2 | £375,000 | +7% |
| HP11 | £360,000 | +6% |
| HP20 | £315,000 | +19% |
| HP21 | £315,000 | +8% |
| HP19 | £312,500 | +14% |
Thinking of selling in HP6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP6, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP6 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 HP6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HP6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HP6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.