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Compton Abbas market report SP7 9, Shaftesbury
The standing SP7 9 (Compton Abbas) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,862 HM Land Registry entries for SP7 9 (Shaftesbury), 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: a typical SP7 9 (Shaftesbury) home changed hands for £335,800 in 2026 (median of 14 registered sales, down 21% on five years earlier), with the mean at £353,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,980 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,862 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SP7 9 is a single group of streets within SP7 (Shaftesbury), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SP7 9 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 SP7 9
In the SP7 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £335,800, from 14 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £353,700, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in SP7 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SP7 9 costs about £3,980 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SP7 9 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
SP7 9'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,800 | £335,800 | 14 |
| 2025 | £427,500 | £437,723 | 46 |
| 2024 | £462,500 | £491,733 | 50 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 44 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 66 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 73 |
| 2020 | £347,500 | £450,888 | 52 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 43 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 52 |
| 2017 | £318,000 | £433,720 | 48 |
| 2016 | £337,500 | £472,166 | 56 |
| 2015 | £279,000 | £394,227 | 59 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 74 |
| 2013 | £274,000 | £394,259 | 45 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 32 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 30 |
| 2010 | £321,500 | £504,195 | 44 |
| 2009 | £288,000 | £462,962 | 41 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 45 |
| 2007 | £285,000 | £483,439 | 108 |
| 2006 | £271,500 | £471,289 | 66 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 61 |
| 2004 | £247,200 | £448,963 | 42 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 51 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 80 |
| 2001 | £130,500 | £250,880 | 80 |
| 2000 | £139,800 | £274,358 | 66 |
| 1999 | £116,500 | £232,178 | 91 |
| 1998 | £131,000 | £264,433 | 77 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 97 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 77 |
| 1995 | £81,400 | £176,951 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical SP7 9 home went from £81,400 in 1995 to £335,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 90%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 42% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SP7 9 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 2002 (+45.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −21.5% | −23.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.6% | −9.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.1% | −3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
SP7 9 recorded 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 69 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 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 shape of the SP7 9 market
Only 14 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SP7 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What tenants pay around SP7 9
For renting purposes SP7 9 sits in Wiltshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,064 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £736 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,711 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wiltshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £335,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,064 a month (£12,768 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
SP7 9 (Compton Abbas): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SP7 9 (Compton Abbas)?
Is SP7 9 (Compton Abbas) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SP7 9 (Compton Abbas)?
Are SP7 9 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 21% over five years in cash but down 38% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in SP7 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SP7 district, not just SP7 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 SP7 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: SP prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SP 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 | — | £345,000 | £450,000 (+30%) | £668,750 (+49%) | £982,500 (+47%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £295,000 (+20%) | £344,997 (+17%) | £450,500 (+31%) | £625,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £226,000 | £260,000 (+15%) | £300,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+25%) | — |
| Flat | £145,000 | £190,000 (+31%) | £330,000 (+74%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SP area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SP7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SP7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SP7 0 | £635,000 | 8 |
| SP7 8 | £279,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full SP7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SP7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SP7 9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SP7 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SP7 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SP7 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SP7 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SP7 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SP7 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SP7 9 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.