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Marlow Bottom market report SL7 3, Marlow
The standing SL7 3 (Marlow Bottom) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,934 HM Land Registry entries for SL7 3 (Marlow), 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SL7 3 (Marlow) is £739,000, from 23 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £732,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,260 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,934 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SL7 3 is a single group of streets within SL7 (Marlow), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SL7 3 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 a home in SL7 3 sells for
Take the 23 registered 2026 sales in SL7 3 and the middle price, the median, is £739,000. The mean lands at £732,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SL7 3
By floor space, homes in SL7 3 have sold for about £6,260 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SL7 3 159% above the country at large.
SL7 3'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 | £739,000 | £739,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £657,500 | £673,223 | 106 |
| 2024 | £670,000 | £712,348 | 106 |
| 2023 | £681,000 | £748,253 | 86 |
| 2022 | £710,000 | £832,556 | 123 |
| 2021 | £620,000 | £785,000 | 145 |
| 2020 | £585,000 | £759,050 | 84 |
| 2019 | £565,000 | £740,580 | 100 |
| 2018 | £570,000 | £759,821 | 80 |
| 2017 | £580,000 | £791,062 | 109 |
| 2016 | £567,500 | £793,938 | 107 |
| 2015 | £455,000 | £642,915 | 109 |
| 2014 | £422,100 | £598,823 | 123 |
| 2013 | £432,000 | £621,605 | 137 |
| 2012 | £390,000 | £574,031 | 106 |
| 2011 | £403,500 | £609,130 | 112 |
| 2010 | £402,500 | £631,224 | 104 |
| 2009 | £331,500 | £532,889 | 94 |
| 2008 | £375,000 | £614,704 | 70 |
| 2007 | £402,000 | £681,904 | 155 |
| 2006 | £340,500 | £591,064 | 162 |
| 2005 | £325,000 | £578,369 | 125 |
| 2004 | £320,000 | £581,183 | 140 |
| 2003 | £279,000 | £513,986 | 147 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 175 |
| 2001 | £211,000 | £405,637 | 172 |
| 2000 | £189,200 | £371,305 | 137 |
| 1999 | £160,000 | £318,872 | 166 |
| 1998 | £150,000 | £302,786 | 169 |
| 1997 | £140,000 | £287,112 | 163 |
| 1996 | £117,000 | £246,748 | 171 |
| 1995 | £115,500 | £251,079 | 128 |
In cash terms the typical SL7 3 home went from £115,500 in 1995 to £739,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 194%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SL7 3 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 2016 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.6%). 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) | +12.4% | +9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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.
SL7 3 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 152 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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 SL7 3
SL7 3 falls under Buckinghamshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £739,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,477 a month (£17,724 a year) works out at a 2.4% 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 SL7 3 is
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SL7 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
SL7 3 (Marlow Bottom): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SL7 3 (Marlow Bottom)?
Are property prices falling in SL7 3 (Marlow Bottom)?
Is SL7 3 (Marlow Bottom) a good place to buy a house?
Are SL7 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SL7's current homes for sale
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 3: 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.
"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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SL prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SL area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SL7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SL7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL7 1 | £500,000 | 31 |
| SL7 2 | £987,500 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full SL7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SL7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SL7 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SL7 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SL7 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SL7 3 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 SL7 3.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SL7 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL7 3 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.