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Burnham market report SL1, Slough
The SL1 (Burnham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 34,167 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SL1 (Slough) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SL1 (Slough) sold for £405,000 in 2026, the median of 210 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £425,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,930 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 34,167 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SL1 is a postcode district covering Slough, Burnham, Cippenham in Slough. 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 SL1 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.
The going rate for a home in SL1
The SL1 median stands at £405,000 for 2026, built from 210 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £425,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SL1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SL1 sales average about £4,930 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SL1 runs 42% above it.
SL1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 210 |
| 2025 | £395,900 | £405,367 | 576 |
| 2024 | £378,400 | £402,317 | 563 |
| 2023 | £379,000 | £416,428 | 534 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 831 |
| 2021 | £344,500 | £436,181 | 858 |
| 2020 | £327,000 | £424,289 | 481 |
| 2019 | £318,000 | £416,822 | 701 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 784 |
| 2017 | £305,500 | £416,671 | 928 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 1,062 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 928 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 939 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 737 |
| 2012 | £216,000 | £317,925 | 673 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 717 |
| 2010 | £198,000 | £310,515 | 661 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 635 |
| 2008 | £207,000 | £339,317 | 874 |
| 2007 | £196,000 | £332,471 | 1,603 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 1,715 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 1,380 |
| 2004 | £166,500 | £302,397 | 1,641 |
| 2003 | £157,000 | £289,232 | 1,547 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 1,786 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 1,696 |
| 2000 | £102,000 | £200,175 | 1,820 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 1,810 |
| 1998 | £78,500 | £158,458 | 1,666 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 1,603 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 1,303 |
| 1995 | £57,800 | £125,648 | 905 |
In cash terms the typical SL1 home went from £57,800 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 222%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SL1 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 2003 (+20.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.0%). 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) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £690,000 against £212,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SL1
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 | £690,000 | 33 | 3,440 |
| Semi-detached | £440,000 | 62 | 8,897 |
| Terraced | £405,000 | 57 | 8,628 |
| Flats | £212,500 | 58 | 13,202 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 408 sales completed in SL1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,649 sales a year before the financial crisis and 543 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.
The rental side of SL1
The local authority for SL1 is Slough, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,575 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,148 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,457, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Slough
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,575 a month is £18,900 a year, which against the £405,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
Reading the SL1 market
SL1 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
Common questions on SL1 (Burnham)
How much did a house sell for in SL1 (Burnham)?
Are property prices falling in SL1 (Burnham)?
Is SL1 (Burnham) a good place to buy a house?
Are SL1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
What you could buy in SL1 now
Everything above is what homes in SL1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 93 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the SL1 median sold price.
27% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 SL1 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SL prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SL area, 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 | — | £535,000 | £732,500 (+37%) | £1,050,000 (+43%) | £1,488,750 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £360,000 | £450,000 (+25%) | £550,000 (+22%) | £717,000 (+30%) | £937,500 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £360,000 | £418,000 (+16%) | £480,000 (+15%) | £680,000 (+42%) | £1,010,000 (+49%) |
| Flat | £242,500 | £332,500 (+37%) | £562,500 (+69%) | £1,000,000 (+78%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SL1 ranks 1 of 10 in the SL 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, SL area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SL1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL1 1 | £201,400 | 8 |
| SL1 2 | £302,500 | 34 |
| SL1 3 | £400,000 | 30 |
| SL1 4 | £331,000 | 1 |
| SL1 5 | £416,500 | 51 |
| SL1 6 | £422,500 | 28 |
| SL1 7 | £452,500 | 25 |
| SL1 8 | £825,000 | 19 |
| SL1 9 | £345,000 | 15 |
How SL1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SL9 | £717,800 | -10% |
| SL7 | £694,000 | +15% |
| SL8 | £567,500 | +3% |
| SL5 | £560,000 | -8% |
| SL0 | £515,000 | +5% |
| SL4 | £510,000 | +4% |
| SL6 | £500,000 | +4% |
| SL3 | £460,000 | +10% |
| SL2 | £435,000 | +16% |
| SL1 (this report) | £405,000 | +18% |
Selling a home in SL1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SL1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SL1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SL1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SL1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SL1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SL1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL1 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.