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Chalfont St Giles market report HP8, Chalfont St. Giles
The HP8 (Chalfont St Giles) 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: 3,470 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in HP8 (Chalfont St. Giles) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to June 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for HP8 (Chalfont St. Giles) is £721,800, from 34 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £908,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,490 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,470 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
HP8 is a postcode district covering Chalfont St Giles, Little Chalfont (south) in Chalfont St. Giles. 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 HP8 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 a home in HP8 sells for
The 2026 median for HP8 is £721,800, taken from 34 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £908,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in HP8
The last five years of sales put HP8 at roughly £6,490 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 HP8 153% above the country at large.
A typical HP8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £721,800 | £721,800 | 34 |
| 2025 | £800,000 | £819,130 | 103 |
| 2024 | £750,000 | £797,404 | 77 |
| 2023 | £1,095,000 | £1,203,138 | 59 |
| 2022 | £950,000 | £1,113,983 | 101 |
| 2021 | £795,000 | £1,006,573 | 172 |
| 2020 | £793,800 | £1,029,972 | 88 |
| 2019 | £769,000 | £1,007,975 | 89 |
| 2018 | £680,000 | £906,453 | 86 |
| 2017 | £747,500 | £1,019,515 | 90 |
| 2016 | £672,000 | £940,135 | 95 |
| 2015 | £665,000 | £939,645 | 113 |
| 2014 | £640,000 | £907,952 | 105 |
| 2013 | £445,000 | £640,311 | 77 |
| 2012 | £637,500 | £938,320 | 81 |
| 2011 | £532,500 | £803,870 | 70 |
| 2010 | £592,500 | £929,193 | 112 |
| 2009 | £495,000 | £795,717 | 80 |
| 2008 | £700,000 | £1,147,448 | 69 |
| 2007 | £588,000 | £997,412 | 130 |
| 2006 | £441,800 | £766,908 | 164 |
| 2005 | £427,500 | £760,778 | 122 |
| 2004 | £407,500 | £740,100 | 142 |
| 2003 | £390,000 | £718,475 | 113 |
| 2002 | £325,000 | £611,485 | 155 |
| 2001 | £315,000 | £605,571 | 143 |
| 2000 | £253,000 | £496,513 | 137 |
| 1999 | £225,000 | £448,413 | 115 |
| 1998 | £236,000 | £476,383 | 136 |
| 1997 | £177,000 | £362,991 | 154 |
| 1996 | £166,000 | £350,087 | 149 |
| 1995 | £149,800 | £325,642 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical HP8 home went from £149,800 in 1995 to £721,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 122%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 40% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the HP8 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 2014 (+43.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−31.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HP8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 62% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,150,000 against £365,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, HP8
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 | £950,000 | 21 | 2,143 |
| Semi-detached | £678,500 | 8 | 667 |
| Terraced | £475,200 (2025) | – | 437 |
| Flats | £365,000 (2025) | – | 187 |
Sales activity in HP8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
HP8 recorded 82 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market HP8 is
Only 82 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HP8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. HP8 sits 2 of 24 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around HP8
HP8 falls under Buckinghamshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,477 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,036 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,364, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £721,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.5%. 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.
HP8 (Chalfont St Giles): the questions that come up
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Where do HP8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in HP8 now
Everything above is what homes in HP8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 34 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 65% above the HP8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 12% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Deanway, Chalfont St. Giles, HP8
- Kings Road, Chalfont St. Giles, HP8
- Kings Road, Chalfont St. Giles, HP8
"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 HP8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: HP prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the HP area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
HP8 ranks 22 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside HP8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HP8 4 | £721,800 | 34 |
How HP8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HP9 | £790,000 | -10% |
| HP8 (this report) | £721,800 | -9% |
| HP4 | £720,000 | +14% |
| HP6 | £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% |
Selling a home in HP8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP8, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.