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Atcham market report SY5, Shrewsbury
The SY5 (Atcham) 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: 9,146 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SY5 (Shrewsbury) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 87 registered 2026 sales put the SY5 (Shrewsbury) median at £325,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £380,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,146 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SY5 is a postcode district covering Atcham, Cressage, Criggion in Shrewsbury. 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 SY5 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.
Today's SY5 prices, from the sold record
Take the 87 registered 2026 sales in SY5 and the middle price, the median, is £325,000. The mean lands at £380,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in SY5
Per square metre, SY5 homes have averaged around £3,120 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SY5 sits 14% above the national market.
SY5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 87 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 294 |
| 2024 | £325,600 | £346,180 | 249 |
| 2023 | £338,500 | £371,929 | 206 |
| 2022 | £321,000 | £376,409 | 290 |
| 2021 | £312,500 | £395,665 | 418 |
| 2020 | £304,500 | £395,095 | 348 |
| 2019 | £262,500 | £344,075 | 425 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 376 |
| 2017 | £248,800 | £339,338 | 362 |
| 2016 | £249,200 | £348,633 | 314 |
| 2015 | £226,200 | £319,621 | 254 |
| 2014 | £207,000 | £293,666 | 271 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 192 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 161 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 153 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 184 |
| 2009 | £217,500 | £349,633 | 182 |
| 2008 | £216,500 | £354,889 | 164 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 273 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 407 |
| 2005 | £198,000 | £352,360 | 303 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 366 |
| 2003 | £157,000 | £289,232 | 326 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 326 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 354 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 294 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 347 |
| 1998 | £75,800 | £153,008 | 308 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 322 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 354 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 236 |
In cash terms the typical SY5 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 99%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SY5 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 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−10.7%). 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) | +8.3% | +5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 58% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £385,000 against £136,200 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SY5
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 | £387,500 | 54 | 5,324 |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | 21 | 2,512 |
| Terraced | £233,800 | 10 | 1,000 |
| Flats | £136,200 (2025) | – | 307 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SY5 recorded 198 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 331 sales a year before the financial crisis and 225 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.
What tenants pay around SY5
The local authority for SY5 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.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 3.0%: 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 SY5 market
SY5 sits 4 of 25 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: SY5 (Atcham)
Are property prices falling in SY5 (Atcham)?
Is SY5 (Atcham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SY5 (Atcham)?
Are SY5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
What is for sale in SY5 right now
Everything above is what homes in SY5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 83 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the SY5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Orchard Lane, Hanwood, Shrewsbury, SY5, Shropshire
- Hawthorn Road, Minsterley, Shrewsbury
- Beech Close, Hanwood, Shrewsbury, SY5, Shrewsbury
"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 SY5 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.
What another bedroom costs in SY
Real sold prices by size across the SY area, straight 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SY5 ranks 15 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 SY5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SY5 0 | £340,000 | 29 |
| SY5 6 | £302,500 | 10 |
| SY5 7 | £320,000 | 13 |
| SY5 8 | £340,000 | 17 |
| SY5 9 | £276,500 | 18 |
How SY5 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Before you sell in SY5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SY5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SY5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SY5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every SY5 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.