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Old Town market report SN1 7, Swindon
The SN1 7 (Old Town) house price history in full, 2000 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,683 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SN1 7 (Swindon) since 2000, 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 7 (Swindon) sold for £269,000 in 2026, the median of 19 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier. The mean was £270,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,683 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 2000 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SN1 7 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 7 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 7 sold prices: where the market stands
In the SN1 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £269,000, from 19 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £270,600, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SN1 7
A square metre of SN1 7 home has cost about £3,460 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SN1 7 trades 6% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SN1 7 home, 2000 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £269,000 | £269,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £355,000 | £363,489 | 139 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 234 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 145 |
| 2022 | £242,500 | £284,359 | 82 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 175 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 71 |
| 2019 | £231,200 | £303,048 | 44 |
| 2018 | £243,000 | £323,924 | 52 |
| 2017 | £226,000 | £308,241 | 53 |
| 2016 | £221,000 | £309,181 | 118 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 87 |
| 2014 | £208,000 | £295,084 | 79 |
| 2013 | £191,000 | £274,830 | 96 |
| 2012 | £179,300 | £263,907 | 84 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 86 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 83 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 34 |
| 2003 | £440,000 | £810,587 | 1 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 1 |
In cash terms the typical SN1 7 home went from £160,000 in 2000 to £269,000 in 2026, a 68% rise. Strip out inflation, though, and the change is small: about -14% in real terms. Most of the cash growth is money losing value rather than homes gaining it. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2003; the current median sits about 67% below that. Someone who bought at the 2003 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SN1 7 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 2023 (+48.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−24.2%). 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) | −24.2% | −26.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 23 years (since 2003) | −2.1% | −4.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SN1 7 recorded 19 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 124 sales a year over the last five years against 1 before the financial crisis. 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 homes rent for around SN1 7
For renting purposes SN1 7 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 £269,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,089 a month (£13,068 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
What kind of market SN1 7 is
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SN1 7 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. Against the SN1 district median, SN1 7 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: SN1 7 (Old Town)
Are property prices falling in SN1 7 (Old Town)?
Is SN1 7 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN1 7 (Old Town)?
Will SN1 7 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat 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 you could buy in SN1 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 7: 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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.
SN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 5 | £195,000 | 27 |
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 7? 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 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN1 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN1 7 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 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SN1 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SN1 7 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.