The average Buckinghamshire home lost £9,997 in July, a 2% fall in a single month, and annual growth dropped from 4.1% to 1.1%. Flats are the only type down.
The average Buckinghamshire home was worth £479,736 in July, down £9,997 on June. That is a 2.0% fall in one month, and it is the sharpest monthly drop in the county’s figures this year.
The annual picture turned with it. In June, Buckinghamshire prices were 4.1% up on the year. In July they were 1.1% up. Land Registry published the July figures for every local authority in England and Wales this month. (HM Land Registry UK House Price Index, Buckinghamshire)
Two things to hold on to before the numbers. This is a mean average, not a median, so a handful of expensive sales pull it upward. And it covers the whole unitary county, which includes High Wycombe, Amersham, Beaconsfield and Marlow as well as Aylesbury, Buckingham and the vale villages. The Aylesbury half of the county is the cheaper half by a wide margin, and we set out the parish-by-parish median separately on our Aylesbury house prices page.
Seven months in one chart
Flats are the only type worth less than a year ago
Split the county’s stock by property type and one category stands out.
| Type | Average price | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £858,673 | +1.1% |
| Semi-detached | £472,407 | +2.2% |
| Terraced | £378,389 | +1.8% |
| Flat or maisonette | £234,615 | −1.6% |
| First-time buyer | £355,164 | +1.1% |
Semi-detached homes are doing the heavy lifting at 2.2%, which is the sort of house most of Aylesbury is built from. Flats are the outlier at minus 1.6%, and they are also the cheapest way into the county at £234,615, some £120,549 below the first-time buyer average of £355,164.
That matters locally because the flats are not spread evenly. The blocks around Aylesbury Vale Parkway, Berryfields and Kingsbrook are a large share of the county’s newer flat stock, and they are the part of the market that has not recovered.
The number nobody publishes: how few homes are selling
Prices are the headline. The volume underneath is the more useful number, and it is worse than the price series suggests.
Land Registry records 2,105 sales in Buckinghamshire from January to May 2026. Sales data lags the price index by about two months, so May is the latest complete month.
| Year | Sales, January to May |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2,105 |
| 2025 | 3,444 |
| 2024 | 2,478 |
| 2023 | 2,330 |
| 2022 | 3,419 |
| 2021 | 5,015 |
| 2020 | 2,252 |
| 2011 | 2,278 |
| 2009 | 1,677 |
Checked against every year back to 2008, 2026 is the weakest January to May in Buckinghamshire since 2009. It is below the 2,252 recorded in 2020, when the housing market was legally shut for most of April and May.
The 2025 comparison needs a caveat. March 2025 alone recorded 1,435 sales in the county, more than three times a normal March, because stamp duty thresholds changed on 1 April 2025 and buyers rushed to complete. Strip that distortion out and the picture is a market that has been thin for four years, and got thinner this spring: May 2026’s 360 sales are the fewest in any May since 2020, when the market was legally closed for most of the month.
How that compares with next door
Buckinghamshire’s 2.0% monthly fall was the steepest of any of its neighbours in July, level with Slough.
| Area | Average price | Year | Month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckinghamshire | £479,736 | +1.1% | −2.0% |
| Milton Keynes | £330,419 | +2.6% | +1.6% |
| Cherwell | £356,935 | +4.7% | +0.7% |
| Dacorum | £459,235 | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| South Oxfordshire | £476,026 | +3.0% | +0.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire | £356,758 | +1.2% | +0.6% |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £575,036 | −3.9% | −0.9% |
| South East region | £380,878 | +0.2% | +0.5% |
| England | £293,479 | +1.1% | +0.7% |
The county is still £186,257 above the England average and £98,858 above the South East. What changed in July is the direction: while England and the South East both edged up on the month, Buckinghamshire dropped.
Cherwell, the district on the other side of the A41 that contains Bicester, is the strongest performer on this list at 4.7% annual growth. Milton Keynes, where much of Buckingham’s commuting traffic goes, rose 1.6% in the month while Buckinghamshire fell 2.0%.
What it means for you
- If you are selling, the July figure is one month and it is provisional. Land Registry revises recent months as more sales complete and register, and single-month movements of this size often shrink when they are revised. Look at the twelve-month change, which is 1.1%, before you reprice.
- If you are buying a flat, you are in the one part of this market that is cheaper than a year ago, at an average of £234,615.
- If you are working out what your own home is worth, the county average is close to useless for Aylesbury. The mean includes Beaconsfield and Marlow. The median sale price in Aylesbury town over the last twelve months was £315,000, which we break down by parish on our Aylesbury house prices page.
- If you are waiting for the market to move, the volume figures say it is not moving much. Fewer homes changed hands in Buckinghamshire this spring than in any spring since 2009, and fewer than in the first Covid lockdown.
All figures on this page come from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index and its monthly sales volumes for Buckinghamshire, published under the Open Government Licence.
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