The average Windsor and Maidenhead home was £575,036 in July 2026, down 3.9% on the year. Median sale by post town, type and postcode sector.
The average home in Windsor and Maidenhead sold for £575,036 in July 2026, down £23,577 on a year earlier. A year before that the same measure was rising at 5.0 per cent. It is now falling at 3.9 per cent, the 18th steepest annual fall among England’s 295 local authority districts.
These are completed sales recorded by HM Land Registry, not asking prices, from the UK House Price Index for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. The borough is a unitary authority, so one figure covers Windsor, Maidenhead, Ascot, Eton, Datchet, Old Windsor, Cookham, Bray, Sunningdale, Sunninghill, Wraysbury and the Walthams.
The headline, and the turn
| Measure | July 2025 | July 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Average price | £598,613 | £575,036 |
| Annual change | +5.0% | −3.9% |
| Flats and maisonettes | £324,092 | £304,000 |
Twelve months took £23,577 off the average borough home. The single month to July 2026 was down 0.9 per cent as well. July 2025 was the most expensive month in the borough’s record, so the annual fall and the fall from the all-time peak are the same number. The borough is falling while England as a whole rises 1.1 per cent. See what the July figures mean in detail.
Prices by property type
| Property type | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £1,126,843 | −3.6% |
| Semi-detached | £602,082 | −2.7% |
| Terraced | £481,881 | −3.1% |
| Flat or maisonette | £304,000 | −6.2% |
The Royal Borough is one of a small number of English districts where the average detached house is still above £1.1 million. It is also one where the semi-detached average, £602,082, sits above the all-property average, because the borough has enough flats to drag the middle down.
Every category is falling. Flats fell hardest, down 6.2 per cent, which is £20,092 off the average and the 18th steepest fall in flat prices of the 295 English districts. Detached houses are down 3.6 per cent, or £41,775. Terraced homes fell 3.1 per cent and semis 2.7 per cent.
First-time buyers and movers
A first-time buyer in the borough paid an average of £427,828 in July 2026, which is 4.2 per cent less than a year earlier. A home mover, someone selling one property to buy another, paid £715,724, down 3.7 per cent.
The £287,896 between those two is the real cost of the step from a first flat to a family house here. Buyers paying cash averaged £591,050 and buyers with a mortgage £570,549, a gap of only £20,501, which is unusually narrow for an expensive district.
What actually sold, street by street
The index is a modelled average. The raw record is more useful when you are trying to price a specific house, so we pulled every completed sale HM Land Registry has recorded in the borough for the year to 30 June 2026: 1,683 sales.
The median was £520,000. The mean was £747,995. That £227,995 gap is almost entirely Ascot, where a handful of sales in the SL5 0 sector run into the millions and pull the average up without telling you anything about a normal house.
| Post town | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Ascot (SL5) | 213 | £650,000 |
| Maidenhead (SL6) | 870 | £501,250 |
| Windsor (SL4) | 470 | £500,000 |
Windsor and Maidenhead are within £1,250 of each other on the median. That surprises people who assume the castle carries a premium over the town up the road, and it does not, at least not at the middle of the market. Ascot is £150,000 clear of both.
By postcode sector
The spread inside the borough is far wider than the spread between its two main towns.
| Sector | Roughly | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| SL5 7 | Sunninghill and south Ascot | 59 | £765,000 |
| SL5 9 | Ascot and Cheapside | 78 | £683,750 |
| SL6 9 | Cookham and the river villages | 56 | £664,000 |
| SL5 0 | Sunningdale | 59 | £615,000 |
| SL4 1 | Windsor town centre | 47 | £575,000 |
| SL4 2 | Clewer and Windsor west | 63 | £573,000 |
| SL6 8 | Maidenhead north and Furze Platt | 121 | £508,000 |
| SL4 5 | Old Windsor and Datchet side | 103 | £505,000 |
| SL6 4 | Maidenhead west and Pinkneys Green | 72 | £450,000 |
| SL6 7 | Maidenhead south and Cox Green | 113 | £417,000 |
| SL4 3 | Dedworth | 127 | £412,000 |
| SL6 1 | Maidenhead town centre | 104 | £395,500 |
The gap between the dearest sector and the cheapest is £369,500, on a borough whose two ends are eleven miles apart. SL6 1, the Maidenhead town centre postcode where most of the new flats have gone up, is the cheapest place to buy in the borough by some distance. SL4 3, Dedworth, is the cheapest part of Windsor.
By type, town by town
| Type | Windsor | Maidenhead | Ascot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £774,975 | £818,500 | £1,206,250 |
| Semi-detached | £574,000 | £530,089 | £565,250 |
| Terraced | £500,000 | £455,000 | £500,000 |
| Flat | £295,000 | £290,000 | £397,500 |
Windsor beats Maidenhead on semis and terraces; Maidenhead beats Windsor on detached houses, because its detached stock is concentrated in Pinkneys Green, Cookham and the rural west rather than the town. Ascot flats cost £100,000 more than Windsor flats.
New builds sold at a median of £642,500 across the borough, against £520,000 for existing homes, but on only 34 recorded sales in the year, so treat that as a description of what was being built rather than a premium you can rely on.
How the borough compares
| Area | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £575,036 | −3.9% |
| Wokingham | £496,537 | −0.9% |
| Buckinghamshire | £479,736 | +1.1% |
| Runnymede | £477,182 | +1.1% |
| West Berkshire | £403,682 | +0.4% |
| Bracknell Forest | £395,413 | −1.4% |
| South East | £380,878 | +0.2% |
| Reading | £349,550 | −1.2% |
| Slough | £335,759 | −1.8% |
| England | £293,479 | +1.1% |
Windsor and Maidenhead is the most expensive district in Berkshire, £78,499 above Wokingham and £239,277 above Slough next door, and it costs nearly twice the England average. It is not, however, growing. Buckinghamshire over the river is adding 1.1 per cent a year while this borough sheds 3.9 per cent, and Slough has closed the gap by £17,255 in twelve months. Five of Berkshire’s six unitary authorities fell in the year to July 2026; only West Berkshire rose.
What holds the premium up is a short list: the castle and the Great Park, the Green Belt that covers most of the borough and stops the towns joining up, two rail routes into London, and school catchments people move for. What is capping it is the same thing capping the rest of the outer Thames Valley, which is that at £575,036 the mortgage arithmetic only works for a narrow slice of buyers.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Windsor?
£575,036 in July 2026 across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, on the provisional UK House Price Index. On raw completed sales for the year to 30 June 2026, the median in the Windsor post town alone was £500,000.
Are Windsor house prices going up or down?
Down. Prices fell 3.9 per cent in the year to July 2026, against a 5.0 per cent rise the year before. Every property type fell, flats hardest at 6.2 per cent.
Is Maidenhead cheaper than Windsor?
Barely. The median sale was £501,250 in Maidenhead and £500,000 in Windsor over the year to June 2026. The difference is inside the noise. Maidenhead detached houses are actually dearer than Windsor ones.
Where is the cheapest place to buy in the borough?
SL6 1, central Maidenhead, at a median of £395,500, followed by SL4 3, Dedworth, at £412,000. Both are flat-heavy postcodes.
How much is a detached house in Windsor and Maidenhead?
The index average is £1,126,843, down £41,775 in a year. On actual sales the median detached house went for £774,975 in Windsor, £818,500 in Maidenhead and £1,206,250 in Ascot.
What does a first-time buyer pay here?
An average of £427,828 in July 2026, down £18,712 on the year, and still roughly £47,000 more than the average price of any home across the South East.
Where can I check what a specific house sold for?
Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search an address or a street free on HM Land Registry Price Paid.
Sources
- UK House Price Index, Windsor and Maidenhead (ONS and HM Land Registry) for district averages by property type and buyer type.
- HM Land Registry UKHPI open data for Windsor and Maidenhead, neighbouring districts, the South East and England, July 2025 and July 2026, via the Land Registry open data service. Figures updated 22 September 2026 from the July 2026 release.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, all 1,683 recorded sales in the Windsor and Maidenhead district, 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, queried 10 August 2026.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid search for individual addresses.
UK House Price Index figures are provisional and revised as more sales complete. Price Paid data lags completion by up to two months, so the most recent weeks are incomplete. Confirm against the linked sources before making a decision.
Buying here usually means commuting. Windsor train times to London has the journey times, the fares and the £3,756 season ticket that comes with an SL4 postcode.
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