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Brimfield market report SY8 2, Ludlow
The SY8 2 (Brimfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,085 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SY8 2 (Ludlow) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 33 registered 2026 sales put the SY8 2 (Ludlow) median at £272,500, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £294,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,085 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SY8 2 is a single group of streets within SY8 (Ludlow), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SY8 2 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 a home in SY8 2 sells for
33 sales were registered in SY8 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £272,500. The mean works out at £294,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SY8 2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SY8 2 costs about £3,120 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SY8 2 4% below the national figure.
SY8 2'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £272,500 | £272,500 | 33 |
| 2025 | £262,500 | £268,777 | 73 |
| 2024 | £262,500 | £279,091 | 55 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 53 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £293,154 | 118 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 127 |
| 2020 | £218,000 | £282,860 | 49 |
| 2019 | £236,000 | £309,340 | 49 |
| 2018 | £216,000 | £287,932 | 48 |
| 2017 | £203,000 | £276,872 | 56 |
| 2016 | £206,000 | £288,196 | 63 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 53 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 61 |
| 2013 | £142,200 | £204,612 | 50 |
| 2012 | £164,000 | £241,388 | 51 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 49 |
| 2010 | £166,800 | £261,585 | 57 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 41 |
| 2008 | £137,000 | £224,572 | 48 |
| 2007 | £172,000 | £291,760 | 59 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 85 |
| 2005 | £173,500 | £308,760 | 48 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 47 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 69 |
| 2002 | £94,800 | £178,365 | 84 |
| 2001 | £72,800 | £139,954 | 82 |
| 2000 | £59,700 | £117,161 | 84 |
| 1999 | £64,000 | £127,549 | 88 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 76 |
| 1997 | £53,900 | £110,538 | 76 |
| 1996 | £46,200 | £97,434 | 82 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical SY8 2 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £272,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 167%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SY8 2 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 (+42.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SY8 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.8% | +1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in SY8 2
Sales per year, counted
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 33 SY8 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 66 sales a year recently, against 70 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of SY8 2
For renting purposes SY8 2 sits in Shropshire. The ONS average private rent there is £813 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £600 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,384 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Shropshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £272,500 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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 SY8 2 market
This is a thin market: 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Asked and answered: SY8 2 (Brimfield)
Is SY8 2 (Brimfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SY8 2 (Brimfield)?
Are property prices falling in SY8 2 (Brimfield)?
Will SY8 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
What is for sale in SY8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 40 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SY8 district, not just SY8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 SY8 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SY
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SY area. 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 SY8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SY8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SY8 1 | £260,000 | 75 |
| SY8 3 | £381,200 | 16 |
| SY8 4 | £334,500 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full SY8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SY8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SY8 2? 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 SY8 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SY8 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SY8 2 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 SY8 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SY8 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SY8 2 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.