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West Swindon market report SN5, Swindon
The SN5 (West Swindon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 22,644 registered sales in SN5 (Swindon) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SN5 (Swindon) is £270,000, from 202 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £298,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,530 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 22,644 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SN5 is a postcode district covering West Swindon, Lydiard Millicent, Purton in Swindon. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SN5 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 homes really sell for
202 sales were registered in SN5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £298,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SN5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SN5 costs about £3,530 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SN5 5% below the national figure.
A typical SN5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 202 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 518 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 498 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 443 |
| 2022 | £278,000 | £325,987 | 515 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 637 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 434 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 582 |
| 2018 | £245,500 | £327,256 | 658 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 684 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 718 |
| 2015 | £213,800 | £302,099 | 676 |
| 2014 | £176,000 | £249,687 | 632 |
| 2013 | £153,800 | £221,303 | 548 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 397 |
| 2011 | £157,500 | £237,764 | 423 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 394 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 373 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 385 |
| 2007 | £152,000 | £257,834 | 840 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 924 |
| 2005 | £128,000 | £227,788 | 805 |
| 2004 | £127,500 | £231,565 | 939 |
| 2003 | £115,500 | £212,779 | 816 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 1,069 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 1,000 |
| 2000 | £78,500 | £154,056 | 942 |
| 1999 | £67,700 | £134,923 | 1,294 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 1,139 |
| 1997 | £58,500 | £119,972 | 1,256 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 1,082 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 821 |
In cash terms the typical SN5 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SN5 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 2015 (+21.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.9%). 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) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £400,000 against £148,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SN5
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 | £400,000 | 65 | 7,589 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 53 | 5,190 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 73 | 8,261 |
| Flats | £148,000 | 11 | 1,604 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 424 SN5 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 917 sales a year before the financial crisis and 435 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.
Rents around SN5
SN5 falls under Swindon, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,089 a month (£13,068 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How SN5 trades
Among the 18 measurable districts of its area, SN5 ranks 16 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Common questions on SN5 (West Swindon)
How much did a house sell for in SN5 (West Swindon)?
Are property prices falling in SN5 (West Swindon)?
Is SN5 (West Swindon) a good place to buy a house?
Will SN5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SN5 right now
Everything above is what homes in SN5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 183 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the SN5 median sold price.
52% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 SN5 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SN5 ranks 10 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.
Five-year change in the median, SN area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SN5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| SN5 8 | £263,800 | 40 |
How SN5 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 | £290,000 | +7% |
| SN5 (this report) | £270,000 | +4% |
| SN2 | £240,000 | +20% |
| SN1 | £232,500 | +12% |
Before you sell in SN5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SN5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SN5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SN5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SN5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SN5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SN5 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.
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.