That is the middle of 619 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
619 homes sold in three years: 221 detached houses, 152 semi-detached houses, 101 terraced houses and 145 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£1.1M
median sale · 221 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£850K–£1.4M
Last 12 months
£1M53 sold
Semi-detached houses£735K
median sale · 152 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£630K–£850K
Last 12 months
£800K41 sold
Terraced houses£563K
median sale · 101 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£495K–£710K
Last 12 months
£615K25 sold
Flats and maisonettes£326K
median sale · 145 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£255K–£460K
Last 12 months
£345K34 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses36%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses16%
Flats and maisonettes23%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Amersham’s homes sold for between £488K and £945K
One sale in ten was under £305K and one in ten over £1.4M. 5% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £712,500, sits in the £500–750K band
619 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £130,000 in 1995 to £775,000 in the last 12 months (£585,750 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
153 sales in the last 12 months, against 427 in 1999, the busiest year, and 200 in 2023. Sales fell by 36% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 36% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Amersham costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Amersham, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£180K
£315K
£485K
£625K
£730K
£812K
£1M
Semi-detached houses
£112K
£193K
£315K
£370K
£508K
£590K
£800K
Terraced houses
£90K
£169K
£241K
£328K
£405K
£475K
£615K
Flats and maisonettes
£71K
£112K
£185K
£215K
£260K
£380K
£345K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
779 new homes have been sold in Amersham since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
23% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.6% sold leasehold in Amersham. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Chesham Road is Amersham’s busiest street, with 25 sales in three years
40 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 12 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Chesham Road
HP6
25
£270,000
Mostly flats
2
Whielden Street
HP7
20
£537,500
Mixed
3
High Street
HP7
19
£600,000
Mixed
4
Plantation Road
HP6
19
£565,000
Mixed
5
Bois Lane
HP6
15
£860,000
Mixed
6
Station Road (HP7)
HP7
14
£809,500
Mixed
7
Stanley Hill
HP7
12
£768,500
Mixed
8
Pineapple Road
HP7
11
£638,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
The Broadway
HP7
11
£600,000
Mostly flats
10
White Lion Road
HP7
11
£550,000
Mixed
11
Woodside Road
HP6
11
£490,000
Mixed
12
Grimsdells Lane
HP6
10
£1,067,500
Mostly detached houses
13
Sycamore Road
HP6
9
£375,000
Mostly flats
14
Stanley Hill Avenue
HP7
8
£1,345,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Orchard Lane
HP6
8
£750,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Longfield Drive: £1,612,500
Amersham median£713K
Longfield Drive£1.6M
Hollow Way Lane£1.5M
Stubbs Wood£1.4M
Stanley Hill Avenue£1.3M
Woodfield Park£1.1M
Cheapest streets
King George V Road: £203,000
Amersham median£713K
King George V Road£203K
Chesham Road£270K
Sycamore Road£375K
Woodside Road£490K
Whielden Street£538K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 7.9 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Buckinghamshire
Amersham is the 7th most expensive of 39 towns in Buckinghamshire
Amersham is one of Buckinghamshire’s dearest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Amersham
What is the average house price in Amersham?
The median home in Amersham sold for £712,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 619 standard sales (£775,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £1,050,000, semi-detached houses £735,000, terraced houses £562,500 and flats and maisonettes £326,000.
Are house prices going up in Amersham?
The median was £743,000 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£710,750), and £775,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Amersham each year?
153 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 248 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Amersham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Longfield Drive (HP6, £1,612,500), Hollow Way Lane (HP6, £1,485,000) and Stubbs Wood (HP6, £1,382,500).
Is Amersham expensive for Buckinghamshire?
Amersham is the 7th most expensive of 39 towns of 2,500 or more in Buckinghamshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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