The median home in Buckhurst Hill sells for £625,000
That is the middle of 467 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 6.8 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.
A third of Buckhurst Hill’s sales are flats and maisonettes
467 homes sold in three years: 70 detached houses, 119 semi-detached houses, 128 terraced houses and 150 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£993K
median sale · 70 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£835K–£1.4M
Last 12 months
£975K23 sold
Semi-detached houses£760K
median sale · 119 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£630K–£940K
Last 12 months
£750K37 sold
Terraced houses£626K
median sale · 128 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£550K–£735K
Last 12 months
£645K39 sold
Flats and maisonettes£376K
median sale · 150 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£425K
Last 12 months
£408K41 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses15%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses27%
Flats and maisonettes32%
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 Buckhurst Hill’s homes sold for between £425K and £811K
One sale in ten was under £327K and one in ten over £1.1M. 4% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £625,000, sits in the £500–750K band
467 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.8 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £98,000 in 1995 to £663,250 in the last 12 months (£575,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
140 sales in the last 12 months, against 403 in 2006, the busiest year, and 125 in 2023. Sales fell by 51% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 73% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Buckhurst Hill costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Buckhurst Hill, 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
£155K
£320K
£398K
£588K
£800K
£850K
£975K
Semi-detached houses
£108K
£204K
£274K
£388K
£536K
£674K
£750K
Terraced houses
£90K
£155K
£250K
£325K
£470K
£565K
£645K
Flats and maisonettes
£67K
£114K
£190K
£230K
£315K
£355K
£408K
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
301 new homes have been sold in Buckhurst Hill since 1995; the share peaked at 22% in 2006.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
32% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.9% sold leasehold in Buckhurst Hill. 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
Palmerston Road is Buckhurst Hill’s busiest street, with 35 sales in three years
31 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Palmerston Road
IG9
35
£412,000
Mostly flats
2
High Road
IG9
23
£405,000
Mostly flats
3
Princes Road
IG9
22
£825,000
Mixed
4
Queens Road
IG9
20
£396,250
Mostly flats
5
Buckhurst Way
IG9
17
£600,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Alfred Road
IG9
16
£610,750
Mostly terraced houses
7
Gladstone Road
IG9
14
£542,500
Mixed
8
Lower Queens Road
IG9
12
£564,400
Mixed
9
Rous Road
IG9
10
£728,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Chestnut Avenue
IG9
10
£716,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Epping New Road
IG9
10
£605,000
Mostly flats
12
Hornbeam Road
IG9
10
£307,500
Mixed
13
Albert Road
IG9
10
£206,550
Mostly flats
14
Russell Road
IG9
9
£783,000
Mixed
15
Stradbroke Grove
IG9
8
£1,022,500
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Scotland Road: £1,260,000
Buckhurst Hill median£625K
Scotland Road£1.3M
The Meadway£1.3M
Stradbroke Grove£1M
Forest Edge£995K
Princes Road£825K
Cheapest streets
Albert Road: £206,550
Buckhurst Hill median£625K
Albert Road£207K
Hornbeam Road£308K
Chequers£330K
Station Way£394K
Queens Road£396K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 6.1 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 Essex
Buckhurst Hill is the 3rd most expensive of 81 towns in Essex
Buckhurst Hill is one of Essex’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 Buckhurst Hill
What is the average house price in Buckhurst Hill?
The median home in Buckhurst Hill sold for £625,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 467 standard sales (£663,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £992,500, semi-detached houses £760,000, terraced houses £626,000 and flats and maisonettes £376,250.
Are house prices going up in Buckhurst Hill?
The median was £615,750 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£625,000), and £663,250 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 Buckhurst Hill each year?
140 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 186 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Buckhurst Hill?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Scotland Road (IG9, £1,260,000), The Meadway (IG9, £1,260,000) and Stradbroke Grove (IG9, £1,022,500).
Is Buckhurst Hill expensive for Essex?
Buckhurst Hill is the 3rd most expensive of 81 towns of 2,500 or more in Essex 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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