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Water Oakley market report SL4 5, Windsor
The SL4 5 (Water Oakley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,683 HM Land Registry entries for SL4 5 (Windsor), 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SL4 5 (Windsor) home changed hands for £485,000 in 2026 (median of 52 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £508,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,800 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,683 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SL4 5 is one sector of SL4 (Windsor): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SL4 5 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 SL4 5
In the SL4 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £485,000, from 52 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £508,400, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in SL4 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SL4 5 costs about £5,800 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SL4 5 runs 70% above it.
SL4 5'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 | £485,000 | £485,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £525,000 | £537,554 | 137 |
| 2024 | £540,000 | £574,131 | 153 |
| 2023 | £485,000 | £532,897 | 111 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 125 |
| 2021 | £491,000 | £621,669 | 204 |
| 2020 | £490,000 | £635,785 | 115 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 145 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 119 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 110 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 117 |
| 2015 | £401,200 | £566,896 | 126 |
| 2014 | £360,000 | £510,723 | 124 |
| 2013 | £330,000 | £474,837 | 123 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 117 |
| 2011 | £314,500 | £474,774 | 125 |
| 2010 | £315,000 | £494,001 | 111 |
| 2009 | £284,000 | £456,532 | 100 |
| 2008 | £328,000 | £537,661 | 77 |
| 2007 | £305,000 | £517,365 | 181 |
| 2006 | £259,200 | £449,938 | 180 |
| 2005 | £266,200 | £473,729 | 156 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 161 |
| 2003 | £237,000 | £436,611 | 161 |
| 2002 | £223,000 | £419,573 | 211 |
| 2001 | £198,000 | £380,645 | 208 |
| 2000 | £172,500 | £338,531 | 170 |
| 1999 | £140,000 | £279,013 | 240 |
| 1998 | £128,500 | £259,386 | 193 |
| 1997 | £111,000 | £227,639 | 180 |
| 1996 | £90,000 | £189,806 | 200 |
| 1995 | £86,000 | £186,951 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical SL4 5 home went from £86,000 in 1995 to £485,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 159%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SL4 5 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 1997 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.6% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 register shows 52 SL4 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 116 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.
Rents around SL4 5
SL4 5 falls under Windsor and Maidenhead, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,818 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £485,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,818 a month (£21,816 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
What kind of market SL4 5 is
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SL4 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: SL4 5 (Water Oakley)
Are property prices falling in SL4 5 (Water Oakley)?
Is SL4 5 (Water Oakley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SL4 5 (Water Oakley)?
What happens to SL4 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
On the market in SL4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 141 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SL4 district, not just SL4 5: 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" 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 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SL area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, SL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SL4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SL4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL4 1 | £610,000 | 13 |
| SL4 2 | £575,000 | 23 |
| SL4 3 | £431,000 | 46 |
| SL4 4 | £537,000 | 43 |
| 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.
Selling in SL4 5? 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 SL4 5'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SL4 5.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SL4 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SL4 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.