That is the middle of 56 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.
56 homes sold in three years: 13 detached houses, 15 semi-detached houses, 22 terraced houses and 6 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£522K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£400K–£580K
Last 12 months
£524K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£400K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£345K–£480K
Last 12 months
£350K5 sold
Terraced houses£358K
median sale · 22 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£305K–£443K
Last 12 months
£345K9 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 6 sold, median £169K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses23%
Semi-detached houses27%
Terraced houses39%
Flats and maisonettes11%
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 Waddesdon’s homes sold for between £319K and £475K
One sale in ten was under £195K and one in ten over £596K. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £382,500, sits in the £300–400K band
56 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 £59,950 in 1995 to £360,000 in the last 12 months (£430,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
22 sales in the last 12 months, against 54 in 1999, the busiest year, and 12 in 2008. Sales fell by 35% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 20%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 69% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Waddesdon costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Waddesdon, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£100K
£145K
£245K
£308K
£365K
£500K
£524K
Semi-detached houses
£63K
£105K
£181K
£250K
£268K
£443K
£350K
Terraced houses
£57K
£92K
£170K
—
£230K
£464K
£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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 45% in 2020
54 new homes have been sold in Waddesdon since 1995; the share peaked at 45% in 2020.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
9% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Waddesdon. 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
Quainton Road is Waddesdon’s busiest street, with 12 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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
Quainton Road
HP18
12
£322,500
Mixed
2
Frederick Street
HP18
9
£347,500
Mixed
3
Baker Street
HP18
7
£295,000
Mixed
4
High Street
HP18
5
£400,000
Mostly terraced houses
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.
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 Waddesdon
What is the average house price in Waddesdon?
The median home in Waddesdon sold for £382,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 56 standard sales (£360,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £522,000, semi-detached houses £400,000, terraced houses £357,500 and flats and maisonettes £169,000.
Are house prices going up in Waddesdon?
The median was £400,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£400,000), and £360,000 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 Waddesdon each year?
22 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 28 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.
Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0