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Bowerhill market report SN12 7, Melksham
The standing SN12 7 (Bowerhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,317 HM Land Registry entries for SN12 7 (Melksham), 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 2026 median for SN12 7 (Melksham) is £267,800, from 60 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £275,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,317 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SN12 7 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 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.
The going rate for a home in SN12 7
60 sales were registered in SN12 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £267,800. The mean works out at £275,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SN12 7
The last five years of sales put SN12 7 at roughly £3,210 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SN12 7 sits 6% below the national market.
SN12 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £267,800 | £267,800 | 60 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 213 |
| 2024 | £262,500 | £279,091 | 182 |
| 2023 | £251,000 | £275,788 | 152 |
| 2022 | £269,500 | £316,020 | 190 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 227 |
| 2020 | £227,000 | £294,537 | 173 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 171 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 205 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 207 |
| 2016 | £189,000 | £264,413 | 203 |
| 2015 | £177,000 | £250,101 | 205 |
| 2014 | £191,000 | £270,967 | 316 |
| 2013 | £196,400 | £282,600 | 322 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 227 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 194 |
| 2010 | £152,000 | £238,375 | 143 |
| 2009 | £142,000 | £228,266 | 109 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 97 |
| 2007 | £149,700 | £253,933 | 236 |
| 2006 | £134,000 | £232,607 | 218 |
| 2005 | £141,500 | £251,813 | 134 |
| 2004 | £132,000 | £239,738 | 220 |
| 2003 | £117,800 | £217,016 | 242 |
| 2002 | £105,500 | £198,497 | 260 |
| 2001 | £78,500 | £150,912 | 226 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 185 |
| 1999 | £62,400 | £124,360 | 226 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 187 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 201 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 259 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical SN12 7 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £267,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SN12 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 2002 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−7.3%). 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) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in SN12 7
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
SN12 7 recorded 60 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 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.
The shape of the SN12 7 market
Against the SN12 district median, SN12 7 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SN12 7
The local authority for SN12 7 is Wiltshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,064 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £736 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,711 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wiltshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £267,800 median sold price, £1,064 a month is £12,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
What people ask about SN12 7 (Bowerhill)
Is SN12 7 (Bowerhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN12 7 (Bowerhill)?
Are property prices falling in SN12 7 (Bowerhill)?
Where do SN12 7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
SN12's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 14 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN12 district, not just SN12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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
Real sold prices by size across the SN area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 SN12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SN12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN12 6 | £316,500 | 68 |
| 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.
Before you sell in SN12 7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SN12 7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SN12 7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SN12 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN12 7 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.