About £820,000 at the median, and the median is the polite figure. Most sales are detached houses. Flats are the cheapest way in by a distance. Nearly half the homes have four bedrooms or more. This is a market built for people trading up from somewhere already expensive.
The Land Registry recorded 137 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of £820,000. Detached houses made up 83 of them and went for a median of £950,000. The 20 semis sold for about £730,000, the 16 terraces for £585,000 and the 18 flats for about £378,000. Detached property sets the price, and everything else is a footnote to it. The usual route in is a chain that starts with a sale somewhere further into London.
The official house price index for the wider area recorded an average of about £486,000 in May 2026, up 2.8% on a year earlier. Flats in the same index moved 0.4%, which is barely a change at all. That is a modest rise in a market that was dear to begin with. Anyone waiting for a correction to bring the detached houses down to the semi price will be waiting a long time.
Band G is the most common council-tax band in Chalfont St Peter, and bands A and B together cover about 2% of homes. Buckinghamshire Council charges about £2,530 a year at band D, and band H runs to about £5,050. Check the band of the specific house on the government's council-tax valuation list, because neighbouring houses on the same road can sit in different bands. The cheapest bands barely exist here, so the bill starts high and climbs with the garden.
Buckinghamshire's typical private rent was about £1,470 a month as of April 2026. That figure is a mean across the whole county from the Office for National Statistics index, so it covers far more than this village. By size, the county figures are about £1,030 for one bedroom, £1,310 for two, £1,600 for three and £2,360 for four or more. A tenant looking for a four-bed detached in Chalfont St Peter should take the county figure as the starting point for negotiation.
The Office for National Statistics modelled average gross household income here at about £79,500 for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is before tax and three years old, and the median sale price sits far beyond it. Even the flat median takes a large deposit on that income. Gross income is always the most flattering version of the figure. Most buyers here arrive with equity from a previous sale, and the local wage pays the mortgage on what is left.
The median price per square metre was about £5,900. That figure comes from the 95 sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 69% of the year's total. The typical home behind it measured about 135 square metres. That is a lot of house, and every square metre of it is priced as if it adjoined a station.
The 2021 census counted about 49% of households in homes with four bedrooms or more, 27% with three, 19% with two and 5% with one. A one-bedroom home is close to a collector's item here. Starter homes barely figure in the stock, which explains why so few first-time buyers do.
Chalfont St Peter is a poor place to look for value: the prices are high, the cheap bands are close to empty and the stock is built for buyers who have already climbed the ladder. If you can afford it, the money buys space. If you can't, the village has very little for you.