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Bowerhill market report SN12 8, Melksham
The SN12 8 (Bowerhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,293 HM Land Registry entries for SN12 8 (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 middle 2026 sale in SN12 8 (Melksham) came in at £307,500, out of 24 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £340,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,293 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SN12 8 is a single group of streets within SN12 (Melksham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SN12 8 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 buyers actually paid in SN12 8
The SN12 8 median stands at £307,500 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £340,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SN12 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SN12 8 homes have averaged around £3,640 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SN12 8 trades 8% above the country as a whole.
SN12 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £307,500 | £307,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £344,500 | £352,738 | 84 |
| 2024 | £317,500 | £337,568 | 82 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 89 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 101 |
| 2021 | £287,500 | £364,012 | 122 |
| 2020 | £252,500 | £327,624 | 76 |
| 2019 | £264,000 | £346,041 | 104 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 156 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 166 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 133 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 105 |
| 2014 | £244,000 | £346,157 | 107 |
| 2013 | £197,500 | £284,183 | 84 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 71 |
| 2011 | £191,500 | £289,091 | 82 |
| 2010 | £223,000 | £349,721 | 67 |
| 2009 | £162,000 | £260,416 | 71 |
| 2008 | £169,000 | £277,027 | 98 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 145 |
| 2006 | £165,500 | £287,287 | 94 |
| 2005 | £184,000 | £327,446 | 100 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 119 |
| 2003 | £177,500 | £326,998 | 105 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 104 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 133 |
| 2000 | £92,500 | £181,531 | 100 |
| 1999 | £97,500 | £194,312 | 145 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 129 |
| 1997 | £65,100 | £133,507 | 116 |
| 1996 | £56,600 | £119,367 | 94 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical SN12 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £307,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 136%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SN12 8 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−14.1%). 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) | −10.7% | −12.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 SN12 8
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 24 SN12 8 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 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
How SN12 8 trades
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SN12 8 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.
The rental side of SN12 8
The local authority for SN12 8 is Wiltshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £307,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
SN12 8 (Bowerhill): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SN12 8 (Bowerhill)?
Are property prices falling in SN12 8 (Bowerhill)?
Is SN12 8 (Bowerhill) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SN12 8 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
What another bedroom costs in SN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SN area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
Five-year change in the median, SN area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SN12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SN12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN12 6 | £316,500 | 68 |
| SN12 7 | £267,800 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full SN12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SN12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SN12 8? 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 SN12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SN12 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN12 8 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.