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West Swindon market report SN5 8, Swindon
The SN5 8 (West Swindon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,422 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SN5 8 (Swindon) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SN5 8 (Swindon) sold for £263,800 in 2026, the median of 40 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £268,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,422 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SN5 8 is one sector of SN5 (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 SN5 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 SN5 8 homes really sell for
Take the 40 registered 2026 sales in SN5 8 and the middle price, the median, is £263,800. The mean lands at £268,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
SN5 8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SN5 8 sales average about £3,350 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, SN5 8 sits 7% below the national market.
The price of a typical SN5 8 home, 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 | £263,800 | £263,800 | 40 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 118 |
| 2024 | £236,800 | £251,767 | 118 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 99 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 125 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 147 |
| 2020 | £201,200 | £261,061 | 84 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 141 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 113 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 128 |
| 2016 | £182,500 | £255,319 | 155 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 127 |
| 2014 | £143,500 | £203,580 | 139 |
| 2013 | £131,500 | £189,215 | 138 |
| 2012 | £122,500 | £180,305 | 80 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 104 |
| 2010 | £138,500 | £217,204 | 96 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 90 |
| 2008 | £135,200 | £221,621 | 96 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 207 |
| 2006 | £124,000 | £215,248 | 250 |
| 2005 | £118,000 | £209,992 | 186 |
| 2004 | £114,500 | £207,954 | 245 |
| 2003 | £106,000 | £195,278 | 211 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 311 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 251 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 251 |
| 1999 | £62,500 | £124,559 | 310 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 262 |
| 1997 | £58,700 | £120,382 | 358 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 261 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 181 |
In cash terms the typical SN5 8 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £263,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 170%, 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 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SN5 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 2000 (+24.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−9.3%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SN5 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 40 SN5 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 239 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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 rental side of SN5 8
The local authority for SN5 8 is Swindon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,089 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £814 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,648, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Swindon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £263,800 median sold price, £1,089 a month is £13,068 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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 SN5 8 is
This is a thin market: 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
What people ask about SN5 8 (West Swindon)
Are property prices falling in SN5 8 (West Swindon)?
Is SN5 8 (West Swindon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN5 8 (West Swindon)?
Are SN5 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SN5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 183 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN5 district, not just SN5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
52% 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SN5 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
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
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SN5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SN5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN5 3 | £550,000 | 2 |
| SN5 4 | £325,000 | 43 |
| SN5 5 | £266,500 | 62 |
| SN5 6 | £251,000 | 24 |
| SN5 7 | £220,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full SN5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SN5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SN5 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SN5 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SN5 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SN5 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SN5 8.
Keep digging
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See every individual SN5 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.