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Sherston market report SN16, Malmesbury
The SN16 (Sherston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,215 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SN16 (Malmesbury) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SN16 (Malmesbury) is £410,000, from 69 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £516,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,230 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,215 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district SN16 covering Sherston, Malmesbury, Crudwell sits in Malmesbury. 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 SN16 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.
SN16 sold prices: where the market stands
The SN16 median stands at £410,000 for 2026, built from 69 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £516,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in SN16
By floor space, homes in SN16 have sold for about £4,230 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SN16 runs 44% above it.
The price of a typical SN16 home, 1995 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 253 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 292 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 226 |
| 2022 | £387,500 | £454,388 | 230 |
| 2021 | £380,000 | £481,129 | 342 |
| 2020 | £374,000 | £485,273 | 181 |
| 2019 | £367,500 | £481,705 | 216 |
| 2018 | £367,500 | £489,884 | 293 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 301 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 256 |
| 2015 | £296,000 | £418,248 | 225 |
| 2014 | £292,500 | £414,962 | 270 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 239 |
| 2012 | £265,000 | £390,047 | 208 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 224 |
| 2010 | £239,500 | £375,598 | 230 |
| 2009 | £226,900 | £364,744 | 270 |
| 2008 | £247,500 | £405,705 | 163 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 355 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 297 |
| 2005 | £235,500 | £419,095 | 266 |
| 2004 | £238,800 | £433,707 | 282 |
| 2003 | £199,000 | £366,606 | 262 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 296 |
| 2001 | £166,000 | £319,127 | 293 |
| 2000 | £143,500 | £281,619 | 280 |
| 1999 | £127,500 | £254,101 | 330 |
| 1998 | £97,000 | £195,801 | 261 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 285 |
| 1996 | £84,000 | £177,152 | 294 |
| 1995 | £84,500 | £183,690 | 226 |
In cash terms the typical SN16 home went from £84,500 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 123%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SN16 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 1999 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £615,000 against £220,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SN16
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 | £610,000 | 32 | 3,494 |
| Semi-detached | £390,000 | 17 | 1,979 |
| Terraced | £385,000 | 16 | 2,040 |
| Flats | £220,000 (2025) | – | 698 |
What SN16 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.2% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in SN16
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 171 SN16 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 291 sales a year before the financial crisis and 214 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 SN16
For renting purposes SN16 sits in Wiltshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,064 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £736 a month here against £1,711 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wiltshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £410,000 median sold price, £1,064 a month is £12,768 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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 SN16 is
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. SN16 sits 2 of 18 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
SN16 (Sherston): the questions that come up
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What happens to SN16 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
What is for sale in SN16 right now
Everything above is what homes in SN16 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 8 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the SN16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 SN16 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SN area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
SN16 ranks 6 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SN16, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN16 0 | £520,000 | 34 |
| SN16 9 | £390,000 | 35 |
How SN16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SN8 | £440,000 | +1% |
| SN16 (this report) | £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 | £290,000 | +7% |
| SN5 | £270,000 | +4% |
| SN2 | £240,000 | +20% |
| SN1 | £232,500 | +12% |
Before you sell in SN16: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN16, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN16's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN16 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 SN16.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every SN16 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.