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Marlow Bottom market report SL7 1, Marlow
The SL7 1 (Marlow Bottom) 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: 5,017 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SL7 1 (Marlow) 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.
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 SL7 1 (Marlow) sold for £500,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £667,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,480 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,017 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SL7 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SL7 (Marlow). 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 SL7 1 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.
What SL7 1 homes really sell for
In the SL7 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £500,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £667,800, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in SL7 1
Per square metre, SL7 1 homes have averaged around £6,480 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SL7 1 75% above the national figure.
SL7 1'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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £556,500 | £569,808 | 117 |
| 2024 | £600,000 | £637,923 | 133 |
| 2023 | £575,000 | £631,785 | 94 |
| 2022 | £532,500 | £624,417 | 132 |
| 2021 | £527,500 | £667,883 | 168 |
| 2020 | £495,000 | £642,273 | 104 |
| 2019 | £472,500 | £619,334 | 82 |
| 2018 | £470,000 | £626,519 | 115 |
| 2017 | £473,200 | £645,397 | 142 |
| 2016 | £445,000 | £622,559 | 143 |
| 2015 | £422,000 | £596,286 | 129 |
| 2014 | £384,000 | £544,771 | 136 |
| 2013 | £345,000 | £496,421 | 146 |
| 2012 | £305,000 | £448,922 | 161 |
| 2011 | £330,000 | £498,173 | 118 |
| 2010 | £318,000 | £498,706 | 135 |
| 2009 | £313,000 | £503,150 | 114 |
| 2008 | £296,500 | £486,026 | 86 |
| 2007 | £352,500 | £597,938 | 199 |
| 2006 | £280,000 | £486,044 | 233 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 159 |
| 2004 | £244,500 | £444,060 | 188 |
| 2003 | £222,000 | £408,978 | 213 |
| 2002 | £217,000 | £408,284 | 206 |
| 2001 | £188,200 | £361,805 | 196 |
| 2000 | £190,000 | £372,875 | 209 |
| 1999 | £135,500 | £270,044 | 224 |
| 1998 | £130,000 | £262,414 | 277 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 245 |
| 1996 | £89,200 | £188,119 | 202 |
| 1995 | £93,700 | £203,689 | 180 |
In cash terms the typical SL7 1 home went from £93,700 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SL7 1 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 2000 (+40.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.9%). 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) | −10.2% | −12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SL7 1
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.
The register shows 31 SL7 1 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 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the SL7 1 market
This is a thin market: 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the SL7 district median, SL7 1 sits 28% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SL7 1
For renting purposes SL7 1 sits in Buckinghamshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,477 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,036 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,364 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Buckinghamshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,477 a month (£17,724 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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 people ask about SL7 1 (Marlow Bottom)
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What happens to SL7 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in SL7 today
The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SL7 district, not just SL7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% 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 SL7 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
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SL7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SL7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL7 2 | £987,500 | 39 |
| SL7 3 | £739,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full SL7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SL7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SL7 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SL7 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SL7 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SL7 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SL7 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SL7 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL7 1 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.