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Chalfont St Peter market report SL9 8, Gerrards Cross
The SL9 8 (Chalfont St Peter) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,591 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SL9 8 (Gerrards Cross) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 24 registered 2026 sales put the SL9 8 (Gerrards Cross) median at £780,000, down 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £911,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,560 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,591 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SL9 8 is one sector of SL9 (Gerrards Cross): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SL9 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.
SL9 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The SL9 8 median stands at £780,000 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £911,100, 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 SL9 8
By floor space, homes in SL9 8 have sold for about £6,560 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SL9 8 sits 174% above the national market.
A typical SL9 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £780,000 | £780,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £1,102,500 | £1,128,864 | 68 |
| 2024 | £1,200,000 | £1,275,847 | 57 |
| 2023 | £845,000 | £928,449 | 64 |
| 2022 | £1,104,200 | £1,294,800 | 62 |
| 2021 | £1,097,500 | £1,389,577 | 122 |
| 2020 | £1,213,600 | £1,574,671 | 70 |
| 2019 | £775,000 | £1,015,840 | 67 |
| 2018 | £1,070,000 | £1,426,330 | 49 |
| 2017 | £865,000 | £1,179,773 | 85 |
| 2016 | £887,500 | £1,241,621 | 90 |
| 2015 | £905,000 | £1,278,765 | 73 |
| 2014 | £759,200 | £1,077,058 | 92 |
| 2013 | £600,000 | £863,340 | 99 |
| 2012 | £728,800 | £1,072,703 | 62 |
| 2011 | £800,000 | £1,207,692 | 76 |
| 2010 | £605,000 | £948,796 | 75 |
| 2009 | £597,500 | £960,486 | 53 |
| 2008 | £571,200 | £936,317 | 58 |
| 2007 | £702,900 | £1,192,314 | 104 |
| 2006 | £607,500 | £1,054,542 | 124 |
| 2005 | £588,800 | £1,047,827 | 98 |
| 2004 | £590,000 | £1,071,555 | 96 |
| 2003 | £597,500 | £1,100,740 | 78 |
| 2002 | £495,000 | £931,338 | 75 |
| 2001 | £405,000 | £778,592 | 103 |
| 2000 | £417,500 | £819,344 | 86 |
| 1999 | £325,000 | £647,708 | 121 |
| 1998 | £340,000 | £686,314 | 89 |
| 1997 | £228,000 | £467,582 | 104 |
| 1996 | £210,000 | £442,881 | 89 |
| 1995 | £230,500 | £501,072 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical SL9 8 home went from £230,500 in 1995 to £780,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 56%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 50% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SL9 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 2020 (+56.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−29.3%). 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) | −29.3% | −30.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.3% | −4.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
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 SL9 8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SL9 8 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 96 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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.
The shape of the SL9 8 market
This is a thin market: 24 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. 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. Against the SL9 district median, SL9 8 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around SL9 8
The local authority for SL9 8 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.
£1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, which against the £780,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.3%. 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.
Asked and answered: SL9 8 (Chalfont St Peter)
How much did a house sell for in SL9 8 (Chalfont St Peter)?
Are property prices falling in SL9 8 (Chalfont St Peter)?
Is SL9 8 (Chalfont St Peter) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SL9 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SL9 today
The live side of the market holds 79 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SL9 district, not just SL9 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SL9 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in SL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SL area. 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%) | — |
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. 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 SL9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SL9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SL9 0 | £838,800 | 24 |
| SL9 7 | £710,000 | 19 |
| SL9 9 | £585,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full SL9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SL9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SL9 8? 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 SL9 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SL9 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SL9 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SL9 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SL9 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SL9 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.