Homes in Burnham Market sell for a median £717,500
That is the middle of 66 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 5.9 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.
66 homes sold in three years: 39 detached houses, 15 semi-detached houses and 12 terraced houses.
Detached houses£725K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£470K–£1.2M
Last 12 months
£540K8 sold
Semi-detached houses£820K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£525K–£1.3M
Terraced houses£595K
median sale · 12 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£893K
Last 12 months
£378K5 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 59% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses59%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses18%
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 Burnham Market’s homes sold for between £450K and £995K
One sale in ten was under £343K and one in ten over £1.4M. 5% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £717,500, sits in the £500–750K band
66 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.9 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £91,250 in 1995 to £540,000 in the last 12 months (£483,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
16 sales in the last 12 months, against 54 in 2016, the busiest year, and 15 in 2012. Sales fell by 26% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Burnham Market costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Burnham Market, 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
£135K
£160K
£325K
£575K
£550K
£910K
£540K
Terraced houses
£61K
£63K
£273K
£345K
£408K
£415K
£378K
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
66 new homes have been sold in Burnham Market since 1995; the share peaked at 29% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Burnham Market. 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
Station Road is Burnham Market’s busiest street, with 8 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Station Road
PE31
8
£780,000
Mostly detached houses
2
Redland Gardens
PE31
6
£720,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Kestrel Close
PE31
6
£505,000
Mostly detached houses
4
North Street
PE31
5
£725,000
Mostly detached 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 Burnham Market
What is the average house price in Burnham Market?
The median home in Burnham Market sold for £717,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 66 standard sales (£540,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £725,000, semi-detached houses £820,000 and terraced houses £595,000.
Are house prices going up in Burnham Market?
The median was £592,500 in 2025, down 51% on 2024 (£1,206,250), and £540,000 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 Burnham Market each year?
16 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 30 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: Richard Humphrey · CC BY-SA 2.0