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Sunninghill market report SL5 8, Ascot
The SL5 8 (Sunninghill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,554 registered sales in SL5 8 (Ascot) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SL5 8 (Ascot) sold for £479,000 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £619,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,430 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,554 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SL5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SL5 (Ascot). 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 SL5 8 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 SL5 8
The 2026 median for SL5 8 is £479,000, taken from 42 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £619,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in SL5 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SL5 8 costs about £5,430 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, SL5 8 runs 68% above it.
The price of a typical SL5 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £479,000 | £479,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £561,200 | £574,620 | 124 |
| 2024 | £535,000 | £568,815 | 109 |
| 2023 | £600,000 | £659,253 | 116 |
| 2022 | £572,500 | £671,322 | 150 |
| 2021 | £530,000 | £671,048 | 202 |
| 2020 | £602,500 | £781,756 | 138 |
| 2019 | £562,000 | £736,647 | 137 |
| 2018 | £492,500 | £656,512 | 116 |
| 2017 | £468,500 | £638,987 | 121 |
| 2016 | £425,000 | £594,579 | 123 |
| 2015 | £408,000 | £576,504 | 143 |
| 2014 | £392,800 | £557,255 | 150 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 137 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 99 |
| 2011 | £367,000 | £554,029 | 91 |
| 2010 | £316,500 | £496,353 | 104 |
| 2009 | £289,000 | £464,570 | 83 |
| 2008 | £296,200 | £485,534 | 78 |
| 2007 | £348,000 | £590,305 | 185 |
| 2006 | £280,000 | £486,044 | 234 |
| 2005 | £261,100 | £464,653 | 156 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 187 |
| 2003 | £295,000 | £543,462 | 220 |
| 2002 | £226,000 | £425,217 | 231 |
| 2001 | £200,000 | £384,490 | 184 |
| 2000 | £199,500 | £391,519 | 136 |
| 1999 | £153,000 | £304,921 | 185 |
| 1998 | £136,000 | £274,526 | 93 |
| 1997 | £127,000 | £260,451 | 183 |
| 1996 | £117,500 | £247,802 | 173 |
| 1995 | £95,500 | £207,602 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical SL5 8 home went from £95,500 in 1995 to £479,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 131%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 39% 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 SL5 8 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 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.5%). 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 years (since 2025) | −14.6% | −16.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in SL5 8
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in SL5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 192 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
What tenants pay around SL5 8
The local authority for SL5 8 is Bracknell Forest, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,490 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,087 a month here against £2,421 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bracknell Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £479,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,490 a month (£17,880 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
How SL5 8 trades
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SL5 8 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. Within SL5, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about SL5 8 (Sunninghill)
How much did a house sell for in SL5 8 (Sunninghill)?
Are property prices falling in SL5 8 (Sunninghill)?
Is SL5 8 (Sunninghill) a good place to buy a house?
Are SL5 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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.
SL5's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 98 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SL5 district, not just SL5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 SL5 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.
What another bedroom costs in SL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SL area, from the Land Registry record. 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
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 SL5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SL5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL5 0 | £525,000 | 29 |
| SL5 7 | £760,000 | 20 |
| SL5 9 | £655,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full SL5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SL5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SL5 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SL5 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SL5 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SL5 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SL5 8.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every SL5 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.