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Highworth market report SN6 8, Swindon
The standing SN6 8 (Highworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,794 registered sales in SN6 8 (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.
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 SN6 8 (Swindon) came in at £470,000, out of 42 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £462,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,760 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,794 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SN6 8 is one sector of SN6 (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 SN6 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 buyers actually paid in SN6 8
The 2026 median for SN6 8 is £470,000, taken from 42 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £462,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in SN6 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SN6 8 sales average about £3,760 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SN6 8 trades 65% above the country as a whole.
SN6 8's median sold price, 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 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 145 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 114 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 113 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 137 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 147 |
| 2020 | £373,500 | £484,624 | 120 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 109 |
| 2018 | £411,300 | £548,271 | 113 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 152 |
| 2016 | £345,000 | £482,658 | 97 |
| 2015 | £355,000 | £501,615 | 80 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 111 |
| 2013 | £262,500 | £377,711 | 90 |
| 2012 | £276,000 | £406,238 | 43 |
| 2011 | £277,800 | £419,371 | 52 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 66 |
| 2009 | £228,000 | £366,512 | 57 |
| 2008 | £277,500 | £454,881 | 26 |
| 2007 | £280,000 | £474,958 | 58 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 91 |
| 2005 | £277,000 | £492,948 | 74 |
| 2004 | £246,600 | £447,874 | 72 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 66 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 85 |
| 2001 | £176,000 | £338,351 | 84 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 70 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 113 |
| 1998 | £119,000 | £240,210 | 61 |
| 1997 | £95,500 | £195,851 | 64 |
| 1996 | £80,800 | £170,404 | 90 |
| 1995 | £84,000 | £182,603 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical SN6 8 home went from £84,000 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 157%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SN6 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 2010 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.8%). 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) | +17.5% | +14.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
SN6 8 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 110 sales a year over the last five years against 75 before the financial crisis. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around SN6 8
SN6 8 falls under Vale of White Horse, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,333 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £972 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,201, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Vale of White Horse
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £470,000 median sold price, £1,333 a month is £15,996 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
Reading the SN6 8 market
This is a thin market: 42 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. Within SN6, this sector trades 36% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on SN6 8 (Highworth)
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What happens to SN6 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in SN6 today
The live side of the market holds 127 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SN6 district, not just SN6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 39% 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 SN6 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
Real sold prices by size across the SN area, straight 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
The spread across the SN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SN area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SN6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SN6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SN6 6 | £390,000 | 28 |
| SN6 7 | £243,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full SN6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SN6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SN6 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN6 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN6 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN6 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 SN6 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SN6 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN6 8 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.