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Old Town market report SN1 5, Swindon
The standing SN1 5 (Old Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,870 registered sales in SN1 5 (Swindon) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SN1 5 (Swindon) came in at £195,000, out of 27 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £184,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,500 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,870 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SN1 5 is one sector of SN1 (Swindon): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SN1 5 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 5 homes really sell for
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in SN1 5 and the middle price, the median, is £195,000. The mean lands at £184,700, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
What a square metre costs in SN1 5
Per square metre, SN1 5 homes have averaged around £2,500 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SN1 5 sits 32% below the national market.
A typical SN1 5 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 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 70 |
| 2024 | £204,500 | £217,426 | 60 |
| 2023 | £193,800 | £212,939 | 68 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 75 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 104 |
| 2020 | £167,500 | £217,335 | 60 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 87 |
| 2018 | £166,500 | £221,948 | 77 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 111 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 191 |
| 2015 | £130,500 | £184,397 | 123 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 121 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 76 |
| 2012 | £103,200 | £151,898 | 80 |
| 2011 | £106,700 | £161,076 | 88 |
| 2010 | £110,500 | £173,292 | 60 |
| 2009 | £102,800 | £165,252 | 72 |
| 2008 | £128,200 | £210,147 | 78 |
| 2007 | £134,000 | £227,301 | 193 |
| 2006 | £122,000 | £211,776 | 206 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 166 |
| 2004 | £114,200 | £207,410 | 154 |
| 2003 | £106,200 | £195,646 | 191 |
| 2002 | £97,500 | £183,445 | 173 |
| 2001 | £80,800 | £155,334 | 170 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 187 |
| 1999 | £55,500 | £110,609 | 197 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 185 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 172 |
| 1996 | £39,200 | £82,671 | 136 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical SN1 5 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SN1 5 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 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in SN1 5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 27 SN1 5 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 180 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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.
The shape of the SN1 5 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SN1 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SN1, this sector trades 16% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around SN1 5
For renting purposes SN1 5 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.
£1,089 a month is £13,068 a year, which against the £195,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: SN1 5 (Old Town)
How much did a house sell for in SN1 5 (Old Town)?
Are property prices falling in SN1 5 (Old Town)?
Is SN1 5 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
Are SN1 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in SN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SN area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SN area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £240,000 | 33 |
| SN1 3 | £230,000 | 41 |
| SN1 4 | £275,000 | 41 |
| 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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SN1 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SN1 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SN1 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SN1 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SN1 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN1 5 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.