A typical home in Datchet costs about £600,000. Detached houses run well past that. Flats come in at under half. Prices have barely moved in a year. Datchet is a village by the Thames with prices set by the size of the house and the postcode, and only one of those can be changed.
The Land Registry recorded 90 sales across the Datchet area in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £598,000. Detached houses made up 39 of those sales and went for around £740,000. The 26 semi-detached houses sold for about £580,000, the nine terraces for about £410,000 and the 16 flats for about £280,000. The detached house is the village's main export, and it moves at a pace that suits people who are in no hurry to leave.
The published house price index for the area put the average at about £585,000 in May 2026, up 0.2% on a year earlier. That is a market standing still and calling it stability. Flats did slightly worse, down 1.9% over the same twelve months. The bridge at the foot of the High Street has been rebuilt three times, which is more movement than prices managed this year.
Council tax runs high because the houses do. The most common band in the Datchet area is G, and only about 9% of homes are in bands A and B. A band D bill from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead comes to about £1,950 a year, so most households here pay more than that, since most homes are in higher bands.
Rents are published for the borough as a whole. Across Windsor and Maidenhead, typical private rent was about £1,810 a month in April 2026, up 3.5% on a year earlier. By size, one-bedroom homes averaged about £1,250 a month, two bedrooms about £1,580, three bedrooms about £1,930 and four or more about £2,720. These are averages from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not the middle of a list of adverts, and the index publishes no figures for studios or rooms. A four-bedroom house by the river in Datchet and a four-bedroom house on a Maidenhead estate both count towards that last figure.
Local incomes do not stretch to local prices. The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income across the Datchet area at about £68,000 a year, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Set that against a typical price close to £600,000 and buying here is a stretch for anyone relying on a salary alone. The people buying detached houses at £740,000 are mostly paying with equity from the last house.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 86% of the total, the median price was about £5,100 per square metre. The typical floor area behind those sales was 113 square metres, a family-sized house, more or less. It is worth looking up what the same street sold for on the Land Registry's price paid records, because one riverside detached house can drag a small sample a long way.
The 2021 census counts the homes by bedrooms. About 38% of households in the Datchet area have four or more bedrooms, 31% have three, 19% have two and 12% have one. With the biggest homes the largest group, a one-bedroom flat is a rarity here, and the particulars will call the fourth bedroom a study whenever a desk fits.
Datchet is expensive for what it is, a commuter village where the cheapest route in is a flat, and a family house costs well beyond what local incomes can carry. Prices are holding, which helps the people who already own and does nothing for the people trying to buy.