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Highworth market report SN6, Swindon
The standing SN6 (Highworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 11,817 HM Land Registry entries for SN6 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 113 registered 2026 sales put the SN6 (Swindon) median at £345,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £392,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,710 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,817 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SN6 is a postcode district covering Highworth, Cricklade, Shrivenham 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 SN6 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.
The going rate for a home in SN6
Across 113 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SN6 home went for £345,000. The mean is £392,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SN6
The last five years of sales put SN6 at roughly £3,710 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SN6 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
A typical SN6 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 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 113 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 411 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 331 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 330 |
| 2022 | £378,000 | £443,248 | 400 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 540 |
| 2020 | £337,000 | £437,264 | 353 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 353 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 360 |
| 2017 | £308,000 | £420,081 | 378 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 362 |
| 2015 | £258,000 | £364,554 | 344 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 429 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 371 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 235 |
| 2011 | £230,500 | £347,966 | 234 |
| 2010 | £235,800 | £369,795 | 292 |
| 2009 | £191,000 | £307,034 | 250 |
| 2008 | £194,000 | £318,007 | 199 |
| 2007 | £198,000 | £335,863 | 452 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 453 |
| 2005 | £189,000 | £336,344 | 422 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 431 |
| 2003 | £169,700 | £312,629 | 364 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 461 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 470 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 413 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 489 |
| 1998 | £79,200 | £159,871 | 392 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 472 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 402 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 311 |
In cash terms the typical SN6 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SN6 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 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−8.9%). 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) | −6.8% | −8.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £530,000 against £162,500 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, SN6
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 | £530,000 | 41 | 4,547 |
| Semi-detached | £345,000 | 31 | 2,919 |
| Terraced | £239,800 | 36 | 3,656 |
| Flats | £162,500 | 5 | 695 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SN6 recorded 287 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 433 sales a year before the financial crisis and 317 a year over the last five. 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
The local authority for SN6 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 £345,000 median sold price, £1,089 a month is £13,068 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
Asked and answered: SN6 (Highworth)
Is SN6 (Highworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SN6 (Highworth)?
Are property prices falling in SN6 (Highworth)?
Where do SN6 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 SN6 right now
Everything above is what homes in SN6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 127 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 23% above the SN6 median sold price.
39% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SN area. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SN6 ranks 12 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SN6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SN6 6 | £390,000 | 28 |
| SN6 7 | £243,000 | 43 |
| SN6 8 | £470,000 | 42 |
How SN6 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 (this report) | £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 SN6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SN6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SN6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SN6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SN6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SN6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SN6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SN6 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.
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.