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Water Oakley market report SL4 2, Windsor
The SL4 2 (Water Oakley) 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: 3,265 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SL4 2 (Windsor) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SL4 2 (Windsor) came in at £575,000, out of 23 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £646,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,970 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,265 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SL4 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SL4 (Windsor). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SL4 2 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.
SL4 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 23 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SL4 2 home went for £575,000. The mean is £646,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SL4 2
Per square metre, SL4 2 homes have averaged around £5,970 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SL4 2 runs 102% above it.
The price of a typical SL4 2 home, 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 | £575,000 | £575,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £574,000 | £587,726 | 73 |
| 2024 | £600,000 | £637,923 | 71 |
| 2023 | £545,000 | £598,822 | 43 |
| 2022 | £585,000 | £685,979 | 79 |
| 2021 | £540,000 | £683,710 | 105 |
| 2020 | £538,800 | £699,104 | 104 |
| 2019 | £525,000 | £688,149 | 67 |
| 2018 | £495,000 | £659,844 | 56 |
| 2017 | £516,200 | £704,045 | 98 |
| 2016 | £555,000 | £776,450 | 108 |
| 2015 | £489,000 | £690,957 | 96 |
| 2014 | £430,000 | £610,030 | 108 |
| 2013 | £383,800 | £552,250 | 94 |
| 2012 | £367,000 | £540,178 | 62 |
| 2011 | £323,700 | £488,663 | 62 |
| 2010 | £361,500 | £566,925 | 85 |
| 2009 | £318,800 | £512,474 | 64 |
| 2008 | £380,000 | £622,900 | 59 |
| 2007 | £337,500 | £572,494 | 127 |
| 2006 | £348,000 | £604,084 | 147 |
| 2005 | £280,000 | £498,287 | 142 |
| 2004 | £286,000 | £519,432 | 128 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 127 |
| 2002 | £235,000 | £442,150 | 169 |
| 2001 | £235,000 | £451,776 | 144 |
| 2000 | £217,000 | £425,863 | 115 |
| 1999 | £185,000 | £368,695 | 181 |
| 1998 | £161,000 | £324,990 | 137 |
| 1997 | £147,000 | £301,467 | 157 |
| 1996 | £118,500 | £249,911 | 126 |
| 1995 | £112,500 | £244,558 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical SL4 2 home went from £112,500 in 1995 to £575,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 135%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SL4 2 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 2006 (+24.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SL4 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.2% | −2.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
SL4 2 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
Reading the SL4 2 market
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SL4 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the SL4 district median, SL4 2 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of SL4 2
For renting purposes SL4 2 sits in Windsor and Maidenhead. The ONS average private rent there is £1,818 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,257 a month here against £2,725 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Windsor and Maidenhead
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £575,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,818 a month (£21,816 a year) works out at a 3.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: SL4 2 (Water Oakley)
Is SL4 2 (Water Oakley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SL4 2 (Water Oakley)?
Are property prices falling in SL4 2 (Water Oakley)?
Are SL4 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SL4 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 141 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SL4 district, not just SL4 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Edinburgh Gardens, Windsor, SL4
- Albert Road, Old Windsor, Windsor, Berkshire
- Sheet Street, Windsor, SL4
"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 SL4 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. 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
The spread across the SL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SL4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SL4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL4 1 | £610,000 | 13 |
| SL4 3 | £431,000 | 46 |
| SL4 4 | £537,000 | 43 |
| SL4 5 | £485,000 | 52 |
| SL4 6 | £505,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full SL4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SL4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SL4 2: 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 SL4 2'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 SL4 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SL4 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SL4 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.