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The SL (Slough) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 189,098 HM Land Registry entries for the SL postcode area (Slough), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for the SL postcode area (Slough) is £500,000, from 1,705 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £598,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 189,098 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SL is the postcode area centred on Slough, taking in 10 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where SL 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 SL
The 2026 median for SL is £500,000, taken from 1,705 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £598,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in SL
By floor space, homes in SL have sold for about £5,610 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SL runs 75% above it.
SL's median sold price, 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 1,705 |
| 2025 | £510,000 | £522,196 | 4,531 |
| 2024 | £497,500 | £528,945 | 4,267 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 3,875 |
| 2022 | £485,000 | £568,718 | 5,174 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 6,171 |
| 2020 | £469,000 | £608,537 | 3,765 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 4,383 |
| 2018 | £425,000 | £566,533 | 4,455 |
| 2017 | £430,000 | £586,477 | 4,941 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 5,369 |
| 2015 | £362,000 | £511,506 | 5,670 |
| 2014 | £330,000 | £468,163 | 6,258 |
| 2013 | £305,000 | £438,865 | 5,205 |
| 2012 | £290,000 | £426,844 | 4,225 |
| 2011 | £285,000 | £430,240 | 4,209 |
| 2010 | £286,000 | £448,522 | 4,672 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 4,046 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 4,157 |
| 2007 | £260,000 | £441,032 | 8,313 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 8,646 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 7,034 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 7,956 |
| 2003 | £205,000 | £377,660 | 7,547 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 8,811 |
| 2001 | £159,800 | £307,207 | 8,250 |
| 2000 | £143,000 | £280,638 | 7,656 |
| 1999 | £126,000 | £251,111 | 9,008 |
| 1998 | £112,000 | £226,080 | 7,651 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 8,201 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 7,382 |
| 1995 | £83,000 | £180,429 | 5,565 |
In cash terms the typical SL home went from £83,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 177%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SL 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 1998 (+17.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.1% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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 flats dominate the record here, 27% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £850,000 against £275,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, SL
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 | £850,000 | 409 | 46,249 |
| Semi-detached | £538,000 | 458 | 47,937 |
| Terraced | £450,000 | 424 | 43,939 |
| Flats | £275,000 | 414 | 50,973 |
Sales activity in SL
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SL recorded 3,174 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 8,027 sales a year before the financial crisis and 3,910 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 homes rent for around SL
For renting purposes SL sits in Buckinghamshire, the local authority covering most of the SL area (parts fall under Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,477 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £500,000 median sold price, £1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: SL (Slough)
How much did a house sell for in SL (Slough)?
Are property prices falling in SL (Slough)?
Is SL (Slough) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SL prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 SL right now
Everything above is what homes in SL sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 141 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the SL median sold price.
Set against 3,174 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 141 homes on the market here are roughly 2 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 SL 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.
Month by month: when SL sells
Across the 24,018 sales completed in SL from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.6% of the total) and April the quietest (6.4%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,711 | 7.1% |
| February | 1,807 | 7.5% |
| March | 2,783 | 11.6% |
| April | 1,531 | 6.4% |
| May | 1,687 | 7.0% |
| June | 2,616 | 10.9% |
| July | 1,757 | 7.3% |
| August | 2,047 | 8.5% |
| September | 2,396 | 10.0% |
| October | 1,990 | 8.3% |
| November | 1,939 | 8.1% |
| December | 1,754 | 7.3% |
Moving up a bedroom in SL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SL area. 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 | £510,000 | £550,000 (+8%) | £645,000 (+17%) | £840,000 (+30%) | £1,208,750 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £328,000 | £425,000 (+30%) | £515,000 (+21%) | £625,000 (+21%) | £778,000 (+24%) |
| Terraced | £325,000 | £400,000 (+23%) | £448,000 (+12%) | £573,000 (+28%) | £745,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £220,000 | £300,000 (+36%) | £426,000 (+42%) | £620,000 (+46%) | £950,000 (+53%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every SL district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| SL9 Gerrards Cross, Chalfont St Peter | £728,800 | -9% | 123 |
| SL7 Marlow, Marlow Bottom | £716,500 | +18% | 116 |
| SL8 Bourne End, Well End | £590,000 | +7% | 52 |
| SL5 Ascot, Sunninghill | £555,000 | -9% | 137 |
| SL0 Iver, Iver Heath | £515,000 | +5% | 62 |
| SL4 Water Oakley, Windsor | £500,000 | +2% | 219 |
| SL6 Maidenhead, Taplow | £500,000 | +4% | 456 |
| SL3 Langley, Datchet | £450,000 | +8% | 142 |
| SL2 Britwell, Farnham Common | £435,000 | +16% | 161 |
| SL1 Slough, Burnham | £400,000 | +16% | 237 |
Before you sell in SL: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SL's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SL. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL 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.
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.