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Marlow Bottom market report SL7 2, Marlow
The SL7 2 (Marlow Bottom) 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: 2,830 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SL7 2 (Marlow) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SL7 2 (Marlow) came in at £987,500, out of 39 registered, up 30% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £960,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,140 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,830 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SL7 2 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 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.
What SL7 2 homes really sell for
Across 39 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SL7 2 home went for £987,500. The mean is £960,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in SL7 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SL7 2 costs about £7,140 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SL7 2 trades 246% above the country as a whole.
SL7 2's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £987,500 | £987,500 | 39 |
| 2025 | £852,500 | £872,886 | 69 |
| 2024 | £845,000 | £898,409 | 63 |
| 2023 | £802,500 | £881,752 | 60 |
| 2022 | £790,000 | £926,365 | 70 |
| 2021 | £762,500 | £965,423 | 106 |
| 2020 | £747,500 | £969,897 | 61 |
| 2019 | £696,500 | £912,945 | 79 |
| 2018 | £775,000 | £1,033,090 | 85 |
| 2017 | £725,000 | £988,827 | 88 |
| 2016 | £575,000 | £804,431 | 88 |
| 2015 | £660,000 | £932,580 | 73 |
| 2014 | £595,000 | £844,111 | 91 |
| 2013 | £550,000 | £791,395 | 95 |
| 2012 | £530,000 | £780,094 | 71 |
| 2011 | £590,000 | £890,673 | 75 |
| 2010 | £500,000 | £784,129 | 77 |
| 2009 | £500,000 | £803,754 | 67 |
| 2008 | £545,000 | £893,370 | 73 |
| 2007 | £542,500 | £920,231 | 124 |
| 2006 | £435,000 | £755,104 | 119 |
| 2005 | £401,000 | £713,618 | 97 |
| 2004 | £385,100 | £699,417 | 95 |
| 2003 | £375,700 | £692,131 | 102 |
| 2002 | £345,000 | £649,115 | 135 |
| 2001 | £306,800 | £589,807 | 90 |
| 2000 | £268,000 | £525,950 | 91 |
| 1999 | £230,000 | £458,378 | 205 |
| 1998 | £230,000 | £464,271 | 122 |
| 1997 | £160,000 | £328,128 | 93 |
| 1996 | £143,000 | £301,581 | 69 |
| 1995 | £163,500 | £355,424 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical SL7 2 home went from £163,500 in 1995 to £987,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 178%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 4% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SL7 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 1998 (+43.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−12.9%). 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) | +15.8% | +13.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.6% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in SL7 2
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in SL7 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 107 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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.
The rental side of SL7 2
The local authority for SL7 2 is Buckinghamshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,477 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £987,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,477 a month (£17,724 a year) works out at a 1.8% 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.
Reading the SL7 2 market
This is a thin market: 39 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within SL7, this sector trades 42% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: SL7 2 (Marlow Bottom)
How much did a house sell for in SL7 2 (Marlow Bottom)?
Are property prices falling in SL7 2 (Marlow Bottom)?
Is SL7 2 (Marlow Bottom) a good place to buy a house?
Will SL7 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 30% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What is for sale in SL7 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SL7 district, not just SL7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SL7 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: SL prices by size
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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the SL area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £500,000 | 31 |
| 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 a home in SL7 2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SL7 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SL7 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SL7 2 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 2.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every SL7 2 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.