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Bowerhill market report SN12, Melksham
The SN12 (Bowerhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 16,340 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SN12 (Melksham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 152 registered 2026 sales put the SN12 (Melksham) median at £290,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £302,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,360 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 16,340 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district SN12 covering Melksham, Bowerhill, Seend sits in Melksham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SN12 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.
SN12 sold prices: where the market stands
In the SN12 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £290,000, from 152 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £302,100, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in SN12
The last five years of sales put SN12 at roughly £3,360 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 2% above the country at large.
A typical SN12 home, priced year by year (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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 152 |
| 2025 | £299,000 | £306,150 | 510 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 424 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 455 |
| 2022 | £306,500 | £359,406 | 618 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 702 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 451 |
| 2019 | £247,800 | £324,806 | 432 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 510 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 507 |
| 2016 | £211,000 | £295,191 | 508 |
| 2015 | £194,000 | £274,122 | 467 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 629 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 565 |
| 2012 | £174,900 | £257,431 | 438 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 394 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 362 |
| 2009 | £158,500 | £254,790 | 309 |
| 2008 | £159,900 | £262,110 | 313 |
| 2007 | £168,200 | £285,314 | 594 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 562 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 441 |
| 2004 | £158,000 | £286,959 | 716 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 692 |
| 2002 | £117,500 | £221,075 | 614 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 610 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 493 |
| 1999 | £73,200 | £145,884 | 640 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 584 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 582 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 641 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 425 |
In cash terms the typical SN12 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 143%: 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 19% 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 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 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−4.9%). 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) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £357,500 against £132,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SN12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £357,500 | 56 | 5,504 |
| Semi-detached | £291,000 | 50 | 5,414 |
| Terraced | £224,000 | 35 | 4,158 |
| Flats | £132,000 | 11 | 1,264 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 359 SN12 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 590 sales a year before the financial crisis and 432 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.
What tenants pay around SN12
For renting purposes SN12 sits in Wiltshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,064 a month (May 2026). 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 £290,000 median sold price, £1,064 a month is £12,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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 kind of market SN12 is
Among the 18 measurable districts of its area, SN12 ranks 15 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about SN12 (Bowerhill)
Is SN12 (Bowerhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN12 (Bowerhill)?
Are property prices falling in SN12 (Bowerhill)?
Are SN12 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SN12 today
Everything above is what homes in SN12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 14 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the SN12 median sold price.
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.
"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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SN prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SN area, 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
SN12 ranks 8 of 18 in the SN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SN12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN12 6 | £316,500 | 68 |
| SN12 7 | £267,800 | 60 |
| SN12 8 | £307,500 | 24 |
How SN12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SN8 | £440,000 | +1% |
| SN16 | £410,000 | +8% |
| SN26 | £390,000 | -9% |
| SN13 | £362,000 | +1% |
| SN9 | £360,000 | -8% |
| SN7 | £349,800 | -2% |
| SN6 | £345,000 | +1% |
| SN4 | £314,000 | +8% |
| SN14 | £310,000 | +2% |
| SN15 | £303,800 | +7% |
| SN10 | £300,000 | +0% |
| SN3 | £295,000 | +13% |
| SN25 | £295,000 | +11% |
| SN11 | £290,000 | +7% |
| SN12 (this report) | £290,000 | +7% |
| SN5 | £270,000 | +4% |
| SN2 | £240,000 | +20% |
| SN1 | £232,500 | +12% |
Selling in SN12? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SN12'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.
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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.