The typical Windsor home costs about £519,000, and none of that money buys you a castle. A flat goes for about £310,000. A detached house goes for about £865,000. Prices have barely moved in a year. Windsor isn't getting more expensive. It got there some time ago and has stayed.
The Land Registry recorded 304 sales in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median price of about £519,000. By type, 91 flats sold at a median of about £310,000, 108 terraced houses at about £522,000, 66 semis at about £622,000 and 39 detached houses at about £865,000. Terraces outsold every other type, which tells you where most buyers ended up once they'd seen what a semi costs.
The house price index for the area was up 0.2% in the twelve months to May 2026. That barely counts as movement. Flats did worse, down about 2% over the same period. That is a published change for the past year and says nothing about where prices go next. The headline figure did little, and flat owners saw a small fall.
The most common council tax band in Windsor is D, and only about 13% of homes are in bands A and B, the two cheapest. A band D bill across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead comes to about £1,950 a year. The particulars will lead with the castle. The band is often left for the solicitor to bring up.
Renting across Windsor and Maidenhead costs about £1,810 a month for a typical private let, as of April 2026, up about 4% on a year earlier. By size, a one-bed averages about £1,250, a two-bed about £1,580, a three-bed about £1,930 and a four-bed or larger about £2,720. These are means from the Office for National Statistics rent index for the whole council area, so they blend Windsor with Maidenhead and the villages. A one-bed near the river and a three-bed in Dedworth won't necessarily follow the borough average.
The Office for National Statistics models average gross household income here at about £70,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That is before tax, and the same modelling puts it at about £52,700 after tax. Both figures are a few years old now. Against a typical sale price above half a million, a household on that income can afford a flat, may stretch to a terrace, and will need serious savings or equity for anything bigger. Mortgage lenders work from the lower figure.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 71% of the year's total, the median price was about £5,900 per square metre on a typical floor area of about 100 square metres. Sales without a certificate aren't counted, so this covers most of the market but not all of it. Anything with a listing next to its name is likely to cost more per square metre, and to come with more rules about what you can change.
In the 2021 Census, about 14% of Windsor homes had one bedroom, 28% had two, 35% had three and 23% had four or more. Three bedrooms is the most common size, and it is also the size where Windsor's prices start to climb fastest.
Windsor is middling on cost. It is expensive by most standards and fairly priced for this corner of Berkshire. Over the past year prices have stayed level, which is about as close to good news as Windsor buyers get.