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Bayston Hill market report SY3 5, Shrewsbury
The SY3 5 (Bayston Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,889 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SY3 5 (Shrewsbury) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 SY3 5 (Shrewsbury) home changed hands for £267,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier), with the mean at £284,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,889 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SY3 5 is a single group of streets within SY3 (Shrewsbury), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SY3 5 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.
SY3 5 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for SY3 5 is £267,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £284,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SY3 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SY3 5 sales average about £3,370 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 SY3 5 trades 6% below the country as a whole.
SY3 5's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £267,000 | £267,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 129 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 148 |
| 2023 | £274,400 | £301,499 | 111 |
| 2022 | £226,000 | £265,011 | 79 |
| 2021 | £214,500 | £271,585 | 100 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 85 |
| 2019 | £177,500 | £232,660 | 110 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 153 |
| 2017 | £181,000 | £246,866 | 128 |
| 2016 | £187,500 | £262,314 | 138 |
| 2015 | £173,500 | £245,156 | 84 |
| 2014 | £141,000 | £200,033 | 79 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 57 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 59 |
| 2011 | £126,000 | £190,212 | 57 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 64 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 49 |
| 2008 | £123,500 | £202,443 | 61 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 123 |
| 2006 | £133,000 | £230,871 | 144 |
| 2005 | £126,500 | £225,119 | 112 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 143 |
| 2003 | £103,500 | £190,672 | 143 |
| 2002 | £91,000 | £171,216 | 201 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 171 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 159 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 287 |
| 1998 | £66,400 | £134,033 | 246 |
| 1997 | £57,200 | £117,306 | 196 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 143 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical SY3 5 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £267,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 173%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SY3 5 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 (+51.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−26.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SY3 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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 SY3 5
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in SY3 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 150 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 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.
How SY3 5 trades
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SY3 5 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. Within SY3, this sector trades 15% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around SY3 5
The local authority for SY3 5 is Shropshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £813 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £600 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,384, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£813 a month is £9,756 a year, which against the £267,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about SY3 5 (Bayston Hill)
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What happens to SY3 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in SY3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 64 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SY3 district, not just SY3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% 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.
- Chatford Drive, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, SY3, Shropshire
- Foxley Grove, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury, SY3, Shropshire
- Kemps Eye Avenue, Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, SY3, Shropshire
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 SY3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SY: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SY area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SY area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SY3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SY3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SY3 0 | £287,200 | 26 |
| SY3 6 | £235,000 | 23 |
| SY3 7 | £262,800 | 50 |
| SY3 8 | £365,000 | 71 |
| SY3 9 | £410,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full SY3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SY3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SY3 5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SY3 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working SY3 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SY3 5.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual SY3 5 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.
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.