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Old Town market report SN1 2, Swindon
The SN1 2 (Old Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,174 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SN1 2 (Swindon) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SN1 2 (Swindon) home changed hands for £240,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £249,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,174 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SN1 2 is a single group of streets within SN1 (Swindon), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SN1 2 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What SN1 2 homes really sell for
Take the 33 registered 2026 sales in SN1 2 and the middle price, the median, is £240,000. The mean lands at £249,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SN1 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SN1 2 sales average about £2,900 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SN1 2 trades 16% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SN1 2 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 67 |
| 2024 | £235,200 | £250,066 | 90 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 101 |
| 2022 | £221,800 | £260,086 | 118 |
| 2021 | £221,800 | £280,827 | 132 |
| 2020 | £193,000 | £250,421 | 96 |
| 2019 | £188,500 | £247,078 | 120 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 133 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 131 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 127 |
| 2015 | £141,000 | £199,233 | 125 |
| 2014 | £159,000 | £225,569 | 177 |
| 2013 | £150,200 | £216,123 | 172 |
| 2012 | £119,200 | £175,448 | 86 |
| 2011 | £118,500 | £178,889 | 82 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 97 |
| 2009 | £123,000 | £197,724 | 73 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 103 |
| 2007 | £151,000 | £256,138 | 433 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 245 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 198 |
| 2004 | £118,500 | £215,219 | 232 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 235 |
| 2002 | £96,000 | £180,623 | 241 |
| 2001 | £83,000 | £159,563 | 266 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 192 |
| 1999 | £56,700 | £113,000 | 276 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 236 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 223 |
| 1996 | £40,500 | £85,413 | 187 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical SN1 2 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 169%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SN1 2 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in SN1 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in SN1 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 255 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market SN1 2 is
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SN1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of SN1 2
SN1 2 falls under Swindon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,089 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £814 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,648, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Swindon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £1,089 a month is £13,068 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about SN1 2 (Old Town)
Are property prices falling in SN1 2 (Old Town)?
Is SN1 2 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN1 2 (Old Town)?
What happens to SN1 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in SN1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 204 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN1 district, not just SN1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SN1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in SN
Real sold prices by size across the SN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £330,000 | £440,000 (+33%) | £640,000 (+45%) | £897,500 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | £281,250 (+17%) | £330,000 (+17%) | £417,000 (+26%) | £650,000 (+56%) |
| Terraced | £217,000 | £245,000 (+13%) | £284,000 (+16%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £526,000 (+50%) |
| Flat | £140,000 | £170,000 (+21%) | £298,000 (+75%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SN area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SN1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SN1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN1 1 | £85,000 | 1 |
| SN1 3 | £230,000 | 41 |
| SN1 4 | £275,000 | 41 |
| SN1 5 | £195,000 | 27 |
| SN1 7 | £269,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full SN1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SN1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SN1 2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN1 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN1 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN1 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SN1 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SN1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SN1 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.