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Old Town market report SN1 4, Swindon
The SN1 4 (Old Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,907 HM Land Registry entries for SN1 4 (Swindon), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SN1 4 (Swindon) sold for £275,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £316,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,907 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 4 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 4 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.
SN1 4 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for SN1 4 is £275,000, taken from 41 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £316,400, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
SN1 4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SN1 4 costs about £3,070 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SN1 4 4% below the national figure.
A typical SN1 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 147 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 133 |
| 2023 | £258,500 | £284,028 | 138 |
| 2022 | £257,000 | £301,362 | 169 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 238 |
| 2020 | £283,000 | £367,198 | 116 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 149 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 173 |
| 2017 | £237,200 | £323,517 | 212 |
| 2016 | £195,500 | £273,506 | 200 |
| 2015 | £204,500 | £288,959 | 204 |
| 2014 | £196,200 | £278,344 | 208 |
| 2013 | £182,000 | £261,880 | 169 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 142 |
| 2011 | £185,500 | £280,034 | 142 |
| 2010 | £163,000 | £255,626 | 194 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 220 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 201 |
| 2007 | £189,000 | £320,597 | 357 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 314 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 201 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 191 |
| 2003 | £157,500 | £290,153 | 189 |
| 2002 | £149,500 | £281,283 | 211 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 201 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 159 |
| 1999 | £86,500 | £172,390 | 197 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 188 |
| 1997 | £69,900 | £143,351 | 184 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 175 |
| 1995 | £65,200 | £141,735 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical SN1 4 home went from £65,200 in 1995 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 94%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SN1 4 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 (+27.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.1%). 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) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 41 SN1 4 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 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 126 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around SN1 4
For renting purposes SN1 4 sits in Swindon. The ONS average private rent there is £1,089 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £814 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,648 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Swindon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £275,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,089 a month (£13,068 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the SN1 4 market
This is a thin market: 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the SN1 district median, SN1 4 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about SN1 4 (Old Town)
How much did a house sell for in SN1 4 (Old Town)?
Are property prices falling in SN1 4 (Old Town)?
Is SN1 4 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
Are SN1 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: SN prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SN area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £230,000 | 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 in SN1 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SN1 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SN1 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SN1 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.