Houses in Cookham sell for about £648,000 in the middle of the market, and the middle isn't where most of the money goes. Detached houses go for over a million. A terrace is the cheapest realistic way in. Flats hardly ever change hands. Cookham is priced for second-time buyers with equity, and it makes no effort to be anything else.
The Land Registry recorded 50 sales in the year to April 2026, and the median was about £648,000. The 17 detached houses that sold had a median of about £1,050,000. The 14 semi-detached homes went for about £720,000 and the 14 terraces for about £538,000. Flats sold for about £350,000, though only five of them sold all year. The cheapest way into Cookham is also the one you are least likely to find for sale.
The official house price index put the average price at about £585,000 as of May 2026. That is up 0.2% on twelve months earlier, which is close to no change at all. Flats were down 1.9% over the same year. Over five years the index is up about 14%. Spread over twelve months, 0.2% is a market holding its position and nothing more.
The most common council-tax band in Cookham is G, and only about 6% of homes are in bands A or B. A Band D bill is about £1,950 a year, which is the easiest figure to compare against your own council. In a village where the usual band is G, the bill on a typical house is well above that. Look up the exact house on the council's valuation list early, because here the band costs real money every year.
Windsor and Maidenhead's typical private rent was about £1,810 a month as of April 2026, up 3.5% on the year. That is a mean across the whole borough from the Office for National Statistics rental index, and it shouldn't be read as an average of Cookham listings. By size, the borough averages about £1,250 for one bedroom, £1,580 for two, £1,930 for three and £2,720 for four or more. Homes with four or more bedrooms are Cookham's largest single group, so the most expensive row is the one most of the village's housing matches.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income across the surrounding area at about £74,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That is a high income by most standards, and it still falls a long way short of a median sale of about £648,000. On salary alone, Cookham is a stretch even for the people who already live there. Most buyers here pay with the proceeds of their last house, and the income covers the Band G bill.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 48% of them, the median price was about £6,200 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 96 square metres. At that rate, every extra square metre of utility room costs as much as a decent used car. Because only about half the sales could be matched, this figure gives you a sense of scale. Don't use it to value a particular house.
At the 2021 census, about 5% of Cookham's households had one bedroom, 21% had two, 33% had three and 41% had four or more. Very few homes sit at the bottom of the ladder, and the ones that do rarely come up for sale. That fits the floor-area figure: Cookham's housing is built around the family house and the large family house.
House prices are Cookham's weakest point. A terrace costs more than a detached house in plenty of places, the cheaper homes are scarce, and local salaries don't cover the gap without equity from a previous sale.