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Shrewsbury market report SY1
The standing SY1 (Shrewsbury) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 15,409 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SY1 (Shrewsbury) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 165 registered 2026 sales put the SY1 (Shrewsbury) median at £230,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £242,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,840 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 15,409 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district SY1 covering Shrewsbury (north and town centre) sits in Shrewsbury. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SY1 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.
SY1 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 165 registered 2026 sales in SY1 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £242,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SY1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SY1 sales average about £2,840 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SY1 19% below the country at large.
A typical SY1 home, priced year by year (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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 165 |
| 2025 | £222,500 | £227,821 | 385 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 328 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 356 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 429 |
| 2021 | £190,200 | £240,818 | 509 |
| 2020 | £176,000 | £228,364 | 346 |
| 2019 | £166,000 | £217,586 | 415 |
| 2018 | £174,500 | £232,612 | 560 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 537 |
| 2016 | £165,500 | £231,536 | 514 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 501 |
| 2014 | £149,500 | £212,092 | 508 |
| 2013 | £140,500 | £202,165 | 440 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 353 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 305 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 312 |
| 2009 | £133,500 | £214,602 | 337 |
| 2008 | £142,500 | £233,588 | 265 |
| 2007 | £147,000 | £249,353 | 514 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 762 |
| 2005 | £132,000 | £234,907 | 557 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 607 |
| 2003 | £107,500 | £198,041 | 617 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 732 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 765 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 617 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 690 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 465 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 521 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 524 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 473 |
In cash terms the typical SY1 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 125%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. 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 SY1 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 2003 (+26.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £321,500 against £170,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SY1
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 | £321,500 | 20 | 2,104 |
| Semi-detached | £239,200 | 68 | 5,285 |
| Terraced | £210,000 | 57 | 5,679 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 20 | 2,341 |
What SY1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 SY1
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 326 SY1 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 646 sales a year before the financial crisis and 333 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 SY1
SY1 falls under Shropshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £813 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £600 a month here against £1,384 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £230,000 median purchase price, a rent of £813 a month (£9,756 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
What people ask about SY1 (Shrewsbury)
How much did a house sell for in SY1 (Shrewsbury)?
Are property prices falling in SY1 (Shrewsbury)?
Is SY1 (Shrewsbury) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SY1 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in SY1 now
Everything above is what homes in SY1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the SY1 median sold price.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Darville, Castlefields, Shrewsbury, SY1, Shrewsbury
- Woodvine Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1, Shropshire
- Rowena Terrace, Ditherington Road, Shrewsbury, SY1, Shropshire
"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 SY1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SY
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SY 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 | — | £257,700 | £355,000 (+38%) | £522,750 (+47%) | £680,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £187,500 | £220,000 (+17%) | £257,000 (+17%) | £347,500 (+35%) | £440,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £155,000 | £183,750 (+19%) | £215,000 (+17%) | £275,500 (+28%) | £385,000 (+40%) |
| Flat | £124,000 | £176,500 (+42%) | £280,000 (+59%) | — | — |
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
SY1 ranks 2 of 25 in the SY 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.
SY area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SY1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SY1 1 | £330,000 | 9 |
| SY1 2 | £230,000 | 54 |
| SY1 3 | £230,600 | 52 |
| SY1 4 | £230,000 | 50 |
How SY1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SY area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SY6 | £370,000 | -1% |
| SY14 | £329,000 | -3% |
| SY7 | £328,000 | +9% |
| SY5 | £325,000 | +4% |
| SY3 | £312,500 | +14% |
| SY4 | £305,000 | +6% |
| SY2 | £290,000 | +10% |
| SY8 | £280,000 | +10% |
| SY10 | £280,000 | -4% |
| SY13 | £275,000 | +2% |
| SY12 | £272,500 | +18% |
| SY21 | £261,500 | +11% |
| SY9 | £257,000 | -16% |
| SY15 | £240,000 | +4% |
| SY23 | £240,000 | +19% |
| SY22 | £237,500 | +3% |
| SY25 | £235,000 | +21% |
| SY1 (this report) | £230,000 | +21% |
| SY19 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SY11 | £228,900 | +14% |
| SY20 | £210,000 | +23% |
| SY24 | £201,500 | -20% |
| SY16 | £195,000 | +12% |
| SY18 | £194,800 | -7% |
Selling in SY1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SY1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SY1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SY1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SY1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SY1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SY1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SY1 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.
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.