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Langley market report SL3, Slough
The SL3 (Langley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 20,797 HM Land Registry entries for SL3 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SL3 (Slough) sold for £460,000 in 2026, the median of 124 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £513,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,320 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 20,797 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SL3 is a postcode district covering Langley, Datchet, Colnbrook 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 SL3 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 SL3 prices, from the sold record
Take the 124 registered 2026 sales in SL3 and the middle price, the median, is £460,000. The mean lands at £513,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SL3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SL3 sales average about £5,320 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SL3 61% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SL3 home, 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 | £460,000 | £460,000 | 124 |
| 2025 | £455,000 | £465,880 | 400 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 361 |
| 2023 | £470,000 | £516,415 | 342 |
| 2022 | £435,000 | £510,087 | 411 |
| 2021 | £417,000 | £527,976 | 561 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 361 |
| 2019 | £386,200 | £506,216 | 352 |
| 2018 | £385,000 | £513,212 | 490 |
| 2017 | £403,500 | £550,333 | 496 |
| 2016 | £372,000 | £520,432 | 563 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 663 |
| 2014 | £263,500 | £373,821 | 742 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 586 |
| 2012 | £232,000 | £341,475 | 399 |
| 2011 | £234,000 | £353,250 | 384 |
| 2010 | £227,500 | £356,779 | 511 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 388 |
| 2008 | £218,500 | £358,168 | 464 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 1,002 |
| 2006 | £212,500 | £368,873 | 965 |
| 2005 | £193,000 | £343,462 | 932 |
| 2004 | £193,200 | £350,889 | 1,130 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 870 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 1,175 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 1,103 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 937 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 1,037 |
| 1998 | £81,500 | £164,514 | 855 |
| 1997 | £73,500 | £150,734 | 866 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 739 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 588 |
In cash terms the typical SL3 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £460,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 226%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SL3 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 2015 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SL3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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 flats dominate the record here, 28% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £790,000 against £253,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, SL3
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 | £790,000 | 18 | 3,425 |
| Semi-detached | £540,000 | 37 | 5,658 |
| Terraced | £425,000 | 44 | 5,853 |
| Flats | £253,000 | 25 | 5,861 |
Sales activity in SL3
How many homes change hands
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.
SL3 recorded 293 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,014 sales a year before the financial crisis and 328 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.
The rental side of SL3
SL3 falls under Slough, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,575 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,148 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,457 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £460,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
What people ask about SL3 (Langley)
How much did a house sell for in SL3 (Langley)?
Are property prices falling in SL3 (Langley)?
Is SL3 (Langley) a good place to buy a house?
Will SL3 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SL3 today
Everything above is what homes in SL3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 25 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 107% above the SL3 median sold price.
22% 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" 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 SL3 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 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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
SL3 ranks 4 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SL3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SL3 0 | £343,800 | 10 |
| SL3 6 | £800,000 | 9 |
| SL3 7 | £550,000 | 27 |
| SL3 8 | £430,000 | 58 |
| SL3 9 | £492,500 | 20 |
How SL3 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 (this report) | £460,000 | +10% |
| SL2 | £435,000 | +16% |
| SL1 | £405,000 | +18% |
Selling in SL3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SL3'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SL3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SL3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL3 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.