The typical Aylesbury home sold for £315,000 last year. In the vale's villages the median was £485,000. Land Registry sales, parish by parish.
The middle home sale in Aylesbury over the last twelve months was £315,000. Drive fifteen minutes in almost any direction and the number roughly doubles: in Long Crendon the median was £682,000, in Wendover and Aston Clinton £550,000, in Haddenham £510,000. Aylesbury is the cheapest place to buy a home in the district it gives its name to.
Everything below comes from completed sales recorded by HM Land Registry, pulled for the twelve months to 30 June 2026 across the HP17 to HP22 and MK18 postcode districts, with every full postcode matched to a civil parish through postcodes.io. Asking prices are not used anywhere on this page.
What homes sold for, parish by parish
Read down the chart and the pattern is not really about north and south, or old and new. It is about whether a place is a town or a village. Group the seventeen parishes three ways and the vale sorts itself:
- Aylesbury and its estate parishes (Aylesbury, Berryfields, Kingsbrook, Coldharbour, Watermead, Buckingham Park): 913 sales, median £336,150.
- Buckingham: 194 sales, median £375,500.
- Everywhere else, the villages: 883 sales, median £485,000.
That is a £148,850 gap between the Aylesbury built-up area and the villages around it, on almost exactly the same number of sales. Kingsbrook, at £430,000, is the one estate that trades like a village, which is what a development sold largely as new detached and semi-detached family housing does.
Aylesbury by property type
Within the Aylesbury town parish itself, these are the medians for the same twelve months:
- Detached: £535,000 (41 sales). Much the smallest category in the town, and the only one that comes close to village money.
- Semi-detached: £370,000 (195 sales).
- Terraced: £310,000 (214 sales). The most-traded type in the town parish and the honest answer to “what does an Aylesbury house cost”.
- Flats and maisonettes: £183,500 (114 sales). One in five town sales was a flat.
Across the whole area the mix shifts toward houses and the medians rise with it: detached £590,000 (581 sales), semi-detached £390,000 (622), terraced £315,000 (553), flats £190,000 (234).
New build carries a heavy premium
One hundred of the 1,990 sales were new build, and their median was £478,500 against £382,000 for the market as a whole. A new semi-detached house in the area had a median of £418,000; a second-hand one, £390,000. The new-build figure is dragged up by the estates that are still selling, and it is the number to keep in mind if you are comparing a show home against the sold prices on the next street.
Why the figure you are shown is £485,824
Search for house prices here and you will be given £485,824, the average for Buckinghamshire in May 2026, up 2.8% on the year, from the UK House Price Index. That number is correct and it is close to useless for Aylesbury.
Buckinghamshire has been a single unitary council since April 2020. The area it covers runs from Aylesbury and Buckingham in the north down through the Chilterns to Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, Amersham and Marlow, and those southern towns are some of the most expensive places to buy in England outside London. The council-wide average therefore describes a housing market that most of this district does not live in. Our sale-by-sale median for the Aylesbury Vale side is £382,000, more than £100,000 below it, and the Aylesbury town figure is £170,000 below it.
On the same index, Buckinghamshire detached homes average £865,799, semis £479,172, terraces £382,280 and flats £239,512. A first-time buyer across the county paid an average of £360,263, against £606,112 for a home mover. Read those as county numbers, not town ones.
How the area compares
| Area | Figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Aylesbury town parish | £315,000 | Median of 564 sales, year to 30 June 2026 |
| Aylesbury Vale area (HP17 to HP22, MK18) | £382,000 | Median of 1,990 sales, year to 30 June 2026 |
| Buckinghamshire council area | £485,824 | UK House Price Index mean, May 2026, up 2.8% |
| South East | £381,311 | UK House Price Index mean, May 2026, up 1.2% |
| England | £292,095 | UK House Price Index mean, May 2026, up 2.3% |
The area median of £382,000 sits almost exactly on the South East average, which is a fair description of the place: an ordinary regional housing market that happens to be filed inside one of England’s most expensive counties.
If you are buying here
Three things follow from the numbers.
The parish matters more than the postcode. Aylesbury and Wendover are both HP22 addresses in part, seven miles apart, and £235,000 apart on the median. Berryfields and Kingsbrook are both Aylesbury estates and £49,000 apart. A postcode-district average would flatten all of that.
Check what the commute actually costs. The village premium buys you a shorter train journey as well as a bigger garden, and the season ticket prices differ by more than £1,000 a year between stations. Our trains to London page sets out the fares, journey times and station parking side by side.
Look at what is coming. The draft Local Plan proposes strategic new settlements at Aylesbury North, Haddenham, Winslow, Stoke Mandeville, Buckingham, Cheddington, Wing, Beachampton and Turweston, and the consultation on it closes on 6 September 2026. What that means for supply is on our planning page.
How to read these numbers carefully
- Parish, not postcode district. HP18 is shared with Cherwell and South Oxfordshire and MK18 with Cherwell. Of the sales we pulled, three were outside Buckinghamshire and are excluded. Every remaining sale is matched to a Buckinghamshire parish.
- Small parishes are excluded from the chart. Only parishes with at least 25 sales are shown, so one unusual house cannot move a bar. Chearsley recorded a median of £885,000 on five sales; that is a real number and not a reliable one.
- Standard sales only. Of 2,257 transactions in these postcodes, 264 were Land Registry “category B” records, which cover repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio transfers and other sales not at open-market value. They are excluded from every figure here.
- Median, not mean. The mean for the area is £428,295, £46,000 above the median, pulled up by a small number of large houses. The largest single sale in the data was £2.5 million.
- The last two months are under-counted. Sales take weeks to reach the register, so the most recent window always looks thinner than it will.
Where these figures come from
Sale-by-sale prices are HM Land Registry Price Paid records for the twelve months to 30 June 2026, covering the HP17, HP18, HP19, HP20, HP21, HP22 and MK18 postcode districts, with every full postcode matched to a council area, parish and ward through the postcodes.io lookup. Every one of the 2,257 postcodes matched. County, regional and national averages are from the UK House Price Index for May 2026, the latest month published when this page was written. You can look up any individual address for free on the HM Land Registry price paid search.
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