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Marlow Bottom market report SL7, Marlow
The standing SL7 (Marlow Bottom) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 11,781 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SL7 (Marlow) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SL7 (Marlow) sold for £694,000 in 2026, the median of 93 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £806,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,570 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,781 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SL7 is the postcode district covering Marlow, Marlow Bottom, Little Marlow in Marlow. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SL7 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.
SL7 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for SL7 is £694,000, taken from 93 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £806,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in SL7
The last five years of sales put SL7 at roughly £6,570 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SL7 144% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SL7 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £694,000 | £694,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £650,000 | £665,543 | 292 |
| 2024 | £680,000 | £722,980 | 302 |
| 2023 | £660,000 | £725,179 | 240 |
| 2022 | £672,000 | £787,997 | 325 |
| 2021 | £605,000 | £766,008 | 419 |
| 2020 | £585,000 | £759,050 | 249 |
| 2019 | £565,000 | £740,580 | 261 |
| 2018 | £612,500 | £816,474 | 280 |
| 2017 | £580,000 | £791,062 | 339 |
| 2016 | £525,000 | £734,480 | 338 |
| 2015 | £467,500 | £660,578 | 311 |
| 2014 | £440,000 | £624,217 | 350 |
| 2013 | £427,500 | £615,130 | 378 |
| 2012 | £365,200 | £537,529 | 338 |
| 2011 | £407,000 | £614,413 | 305 |
| 2010 | £406,200 | £637,026 | 316 |
| 2009 | £358,000 | £575,488 | 275 |
| 2008 | £400,000 | £655,684 | 229 |
| 2007 | £405,500 | £687,841 | 478 |
| 2006 | £325,000 | £564,158 | 514 |
| 2005 | £324,000 | £576,589 | 381 |
| 2004 | £310,000 | £563,021 | 423 |
| 2003 | £270,000 | £497,405 | 462 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 516 |
| 2001 | £225,000 | £432,551 | 458 |
| 2000 | £198,000 | £388,575 | 437 |
| 1999 | £172,000 | £342,787 | 595 |
| 1998 | £152,000 | £306,823 | 568 |
| 1997 | £132,500 | £271,731 | 501 |
| 1996 | £111,200 | £234,516 | 442 |
| 1995 | £112,000 | £243,471 | 366 |
In cash terms the typical SL7 home went from £112,000 in 1995 to £694,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 185%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SL7 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 2007 (+24.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £987,500 against £345,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SL7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £987,500 | 37 | 4,143 |
| Semi-detached | £689,000 | 14 | 2,798 |
| Terraced | £582,000 | 25 | 2,933 |
| Flats | £345,000 | 17 | 1,907 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 242 SL7 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 459 sales a year before the financial crisis and 250 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 market
SL7 sits 2 of 10 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
The rental side of SL7
The local authority for SL7 is Buckinghamshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,477 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,036 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,364, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Buckinghamshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, which against the £694,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about SL7 (Marlow Bottom)
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What happens to SL7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
SL7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SL7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the SL7 median sold price.
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.
What another bedroom costs in SL
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SL7 ranks 3 of 10 in the SL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, SL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SL7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL7 1 | £500,000 | 31 |
| SL7 2 | £987,500 | 39 |
| SL7 3 | £739,000 | 23 |
How SL7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SL9 | £717,800 | -10% |
| SL7 (this report) | £694,000 | +15% |
| SL8 | £567,500 | +3% |
| SL5 | £560,000 | -8% |
| SL0 | £515,000 | +5% |
| SL4 | £510,000 | +4% |
| SL6 | £500,000 | +4% |
| SL3 | £460,000 | +10% |
| SL2 | £435,000 | +16% |
| SL1 | £405,000 | +18% |
Thinking of selling in SL7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SL7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SL7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SL7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SL7.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SL7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL7 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.