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The most expensive counties in England & Wales

Counties ranked by median sold price over the last three years.

Windsor And Maidenhead tops the table with a £515,000 median. Greater London and Surrey follow at £510,000 and £490,000, and the No. 60 entry, Warrington, sits at £241,250 — a 2.1× spread from top to bottom. Every county here links to its full guide — the trend, prices by type and how it compares to England.

#CountyMedian · 5-yr

1Windsor And Maidenhead£515,000+4.9%2Greater London£510,000+2.1%3Surrey£490,000+4.7%4Wokingham£482,500+8.2%5Buckinghamshire£450,000+5.7%6Hertfordshire£446,000+3.6%7Bracknell Forest£403,000+5.2%8Oxfordshire£400,000+4.9%9Brighton And Hove£400,000+3.7%10West Berkshire£390,000+3.8%11Bath And North East Somerset£390,000+8.6%12West Sussex£380,000+3%13Slough£375,000+12%14Central Bedfordshire£362,500+5.1%15Essex£362,500+4.3%16Hampshire£362,500+3.4%17Thurrock£348,000+12.1%18Reading£345,000+8%19Cambridgeshire£345,000+3.2%20Kent£340,000+3.3%21Dorset£340,000+1.3%22City Of Bristol£340,000+12.9%23Rutland£338,750-0.7%24South Gloucestershire£335,500+8.3%25Milton Keynes£335,000+1.7%26Bedford£335,000+11.7%27East Sussex£335,000+1.5%28Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole£327,000+4.9%29Southend-on-Sea£325,000+9.4%30Monmouthshire£315,789+10.1%31Wiltshire£315,000+5.5%32Gloucestershire£312,000+5%33North Somerset£312,000+1.9%34Devon£309,529+3.5%35Warwickshire£300,000+2.6%36Medway£300,000+11.5%37Luton£300,000+15.4%38York£300,000+9.3%39Herefordshire£292,000+0.3%40West Northamptonshire£290,000+1.9%41Cornwall£285,000+4.2%42Cheshire East£284,995+5.9%43Worcestershire£283,280+4.5%44Suffolk£283,000+1.6%45Somerset£277,000+6.2%46The Vale Of Glamorgan£275,000+13.4%47Leicestershire£275,000+5.9%48Swindon£272,500+12.2%49Shropshire£270,000+6.2%50Norfolk£268,500+4.3%51North Yorkshire£263,500+3.1%52Cardiff£260,000+12%53North Northamptonshire£255,000+3.5%54Southampton£250,000+13.8%55Portsmouth£250,000+11.2%56Isle Of Wight£250,000+1.2%57Cheshire West And Chester£250,000+10.1%58Torbay£245,000+5.7%59Powys£245,000+19.2%60Warrington£241,250+13.2%

Median sold price over the last three years from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; 5-year change is on a mix-robust median index. Only counties with a meaningful number of recent sales are ranked.

Journalists: this table is free to quote and republish with attribution to Housometerand a link to this page. The figures recompute as HM Land Registry registers new sales, so the page won’t go stale under a story. For a custom cut — a narrower area, the opposite end of the table, or year-on-year moves — get in touch, usually same-day.

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Most expensive counties — FAQs

What is the most expensive county in England & Wales?

Windsor And Maidenhead, with a £515,000 median (HM Land Registry sold-price data, among England & Wales counties with at least 1,000 recent sales).

Which are the top three most expensive counties?

1. Windsor And Maidenhead (£515,000); 2. Greater London (£510,000); 3. Surrey (£490,000).

How is this ranking calculated?

From HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: each county's median sold price over the last three years, with a floor of 1,000 recent sales so thin, noisy markets don't distort the table. Updated daily.