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Bowerhill market report SN12 6, Melksham
The SN12 6 (Bowerhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,729 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SN12 6 (Melksham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SN12 6 (Melksham) home changed hands for £316,500 in 2026 (median of 68 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £311,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,380 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,729 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SN12 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SN12 (Melksham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SN12 6 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 a home in SN12 6 sells for
The 2026 median for SN12 6 is £316,500, taken from 68 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £311,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SN12 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SN12 6 at roughly £3,380 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SN12 6 11% above the country at large.
SN12 6's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £316,500 | £316,500 | 68 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 213 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 160 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 214 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 327 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 353 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 202 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 157 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 149 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 134 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 172 |
| 2015 | £205,000 | £289,665 | 157 |
| 2014 | £182,000 | £258,199 | 205 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 159 |
| 2012 | £165,500 | £243,595 | 140 |
| 2011 | £174,700 | £263,730 | 118 |
| 2010 | £172,200 | £270,054 | 152 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 129 |
| 2008 | £172,500 | £282,764 | 118 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 213 |
| 2006 | £177,000 | £307,249 | 250 |
| 2005 | £164,000 | £291,854 | 207 |
| 2004 | £172,000 | £312,386 | 377 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 345 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 250 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 251 |
| 2000 | £90,500 | £177,606 | 208 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 269 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 268 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 265 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 288 |
| 1995 | £59,500 | £129,344 | 211 |
In cash terms the typical SN12 6 home went from £59,500 in 1995 to £316,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 145%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SN12 6 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 2002 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.2%). 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) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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.
The register shows 68 SN12 6 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 263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 196 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 SN12 6 is
Within SN12, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of SN12 6
SN12 6 falls under Wiltshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,064 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £736 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,711, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wiltshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,064 a month is £12,768 a year, which against the £316,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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: SN12 6 (Bowerhill)
Is SN12 6 (Bowerhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN12 6 (Bowerhill)?
Are property prices falling in SN12 6 (Bowerhill)?
Are SN12 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in SN12 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 14 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN12 district, not just SN12 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 SN12 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SN: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
SN area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SN12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SN12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN12 7 | £267,800 | 60 |
| SN12 8 | £307,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full SN12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SN12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SN12 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN12 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN12 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN12 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SN12 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN12 6 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.
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.