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Old Town market report SN1 3, Swindon
The standing SN1 3 (Old Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,165 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SN1 3 (Swindon) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SN1 3 (Swindon) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £229,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,820 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,165 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SN1 3 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 3 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 3 homes really sell for
In the SN1 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £230,000, from 41 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £229,000, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SN1 3
The last five years of sales put SN1 3 at roughly £2,820 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SN1 3 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
A typical SN1 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 117 |
| 2024 | £227,000 | £241,348 | 99 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 123 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 149 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 185 |
| 2020 | £210,000 | £272,479 | 109 |
| 2019 | £196,000 | £256,909 | 108 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 141 |
| 2017 | £185,500 | £253,003 | 123 |
| 2016 | £170,200 | £238,111 | 170 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 195 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 149 |
| 2013 | £145,500 | £209,360 | 124 |
| 2012 | £135,800 | £199,881 | 109 |
| 2011 | £131,000 | £197,760 | 123 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 91 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 91 |
| 2008 | £146,200 | £239,653 | 164 |
| 2007 | £152,000 | £257,834 | 225 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 253 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 210 |
| 2004 | £128,000 | £232,473 | 226 |
| 2003 | £129,700 | £238,939 | 246 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 215 |
| 2001 | £94,500 | £181,671 | 215 |
| 2000 | £86,800 | £170,345 | 216 |
| 1999 | £68,500 | £136,517 | 223 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 183 |
| 1997 | £49,100 | £100,694 | 210 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 166 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical SN1 3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SN1 3 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.5% | +7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in SN1 3
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 41 SN1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 226 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market SN1 3 is
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SN1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around SN1 3
For renting purposes SN1 3 sits in Swindon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,089 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £814 a month here against £1,648 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Swindon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £1,089 a month is £13,068 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
SN1 3 (Old Town): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SN1 3 (Old Town)?
Are property prices falling in SN1 3 (Old Town)?
Is SN1 3 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
Are SN1 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SN1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 204 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN1 district, not just SN1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SN1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in SN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SN area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SN1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SN1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN1 1 | £85,000 | 1 |
| SN1 2 | £240,000 | 33 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SN1 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SN1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SN1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SN1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SN1 3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SN1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN1 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.