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Royal Wootton Bassett market report SN4 8, Swindon
The standing SN4 8 (Royal Wootton Bassett) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,204 HM Land Registry entries for SN4 8 (Swindon), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SN4 8 (Swindon) came in at £288,800, out of 50 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £315,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,580 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,204 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SN4 8 is one sector of SN4 (Swindon): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SN4 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 SN4 8 homes really sell for
The SN4 8 median stands at £288,800 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £315,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SN4 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SN4 8 sales average about £3,580 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SN4 8 sits 1% above the national market.
SN4 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £288,800 | £288,800 | 50 |
| 2025 | £307,500 | £314,853 | 119 |
| 2024 | £302,500 | £321,620 | 110 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 105 |
| 2022 | £302,500 | £354,716 | 123 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 144 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 109 |
| 2019 | £248,000 | £325,069 | 107 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 155 |
| 2017 | £263,700 | £359,660 | 152 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 241 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 129 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 188 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 154 |
| 2012 | £184,000 | £270,825 | 88 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 80 |
| 2010 | £174,200 | £273,190 | 68 |
| 2009 | £173,500 | £278,903 | 67 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 63 |
| 2007 | £177,000 | £300,241 | 128 |
| 2006 | £171,200 | £297,181 | 146 |
| 2005 | £166,500 | £296,303 | 117 |
| 2004 | £162,500 | £295,132 | 156 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 125 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 174 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 133 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 157 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 180 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 155 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 221 |
| 1996 | £63,500 | £133,919 | 144 |
| 1995 | £69,200 | £150,430 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical SN4 8 home went from £69,200 in 1995 to £288,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 92%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SN4 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 2001 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−11.4%). 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) | −6.1% | −8.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −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.
Sales activity in SN4 8
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 50 SN4 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 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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 kind of market SN4 8 is
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SN4 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SN4, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around SN4 8
For renting purposes SN4 8 sits in Wiltshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,064 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £288,800 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.
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What happens to SN4 8 prices now?
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.
What is for sale in SN4 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 166 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN4 district, not just SN4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 SN4 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.
What another bedroom costs in SN
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SN area. 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. 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.
SN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SN4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SN4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN4 0 | £321,500 | 38 |
| SN4 7 | £308,000 | 35 |
| SN4 9 | £354,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full SN4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SN4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SN4 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN4 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN4 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN4 8 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 SN4 8.
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The live map plots every individual SN4 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.