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Bayston Hill market report SY3 8, Shrewsbury
The SY3 8 (Bayston Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,572 registered sales in SY3 8 (Shrewsbury) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SY3 8 (Shrewsbury) is £365,000, from 71 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier; the mean is £395,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,510 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,572 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SY3 8 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 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 SY3 8 homes really sell for
The SY3 8 median stands at £365,000 for 2026, built from 71 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £395,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SY3 8 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in SY3 8 have sold for about £3,510 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SY3 8 runs 28% above it.
A typical SY3 8 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 | £365,000 | £365,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £357,500 | £366,049 | 156 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 153 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 151 |
| 2022 | £333,000 | £390,480 | 173 |
| 2021 | £311,000 | £393,766 | 214 |
| 2020 | £279,400 | £362,527 | 146 |
| 2019 | £271,000 | £355,216 | 178 |
| 2018 | £257,800 | £343,652 | 166 |
| 2017 | £274,200 | £373,981 | 173 |
| 2016 | £246,200 | £344,436 | 176 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 239 |
| 2014 | £233,000 | £330,551 | 174 |
| 2013 | £219,000 | £315,119 | 154 |
| 2012 | £214,000 | £314,981 | 150 |
| 2011 | £207,000 | £312,490 | 145 |
| 2010 | £224,000 | £351,290 | 113 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 119 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 78 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 169 |
| 2006 | £203,000 | £352,382 | 220 |
| 2005 | £203,200 | £361,614 | 142 |
| 2004 | £178,400 | £324,009 | 216 |
| 2003 | £149,000 | £274,494 | 193 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 220 |
| 2001 | £114,500 | £220,120 | 230 |
| 2000 | £102,000 | £200,175 | 205 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 213 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 191 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 263 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 235 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical SY3 8 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 151%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SY3 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 2000 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). 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) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in SY3 8
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 register shows 71 SY3 8 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 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 141 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.
What homes rent for around SY3 8
For renting purposes SY3 8 sits in Shropshire. The ONS average private rent there is £813 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £365,000 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 2.7%: 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 SY3 8 market
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 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about SY3 8 (Bayston Hill)
How much did a house sell for in SY3 8 (Bayston Hill)?
Are property prices falling in SY3 8 (Bayston Hill)?
Is SY3 8 (Bayston Hill) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SY3 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
SY3's current homes for sale
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 8: 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 →
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.
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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SY area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 5 | £267,000 | 29 |
| SY3 6 | £235,000 | 23 |
| SY3 7 | £262,800 | 50 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SY3 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SY3 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SY3 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SY3 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 SY3 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SY3 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SY3 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.