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Brimfield market report SY8, Ludlow
The SY8 (Brimfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,760 HM Land Registry entries for SY8 (Ludlow), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SY8 (Ludlow) is £280,000, from 140 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £317,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,110 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,760 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district SY8 covering Ludlow, Brimfield, Clee Hill sits in Ludlow. 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 SY8 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.
SY8 sold prices: where the market stands
The SY8 median stands at £280,000 for 2026, built from 140 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £317,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SY8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SY8 homes have averaged around £3,110 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, SY8 sits 2% below the national market.
SY8's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 140 |
| 2025 | £275,500 | £282,088 | 267 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 306 |
| 2023 | £292,500 | £321,386 | 314 |
| 2022 | £252,500 | £296,085 | 388 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 467 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 221 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 292 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 311 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 340 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 309 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 303 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 305 |
| 2013 | £189,000 | £271,952 | 273 |
| 2012 | £171,000 | £251,691 | 270 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 250 |
| 2010 | £177,000 | £277,582 | 267 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 255 |
| 2008 | £174,200 | £285,551 | 222 |
| 2007 | £197,500 | £335,015 | 363 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 451 |
| 2005 | £187,500 | £333,674 | 315 |
| 2004 | £167,200 | £303,668 | 352 |
| 2003 | £147,500 | £271,731 | 455 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 510 |
| 2001 | £98,000 | £188,400 | 462 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 422 |
| 1999 | £77,500 | £154,453 | 486 |
| 1998 | £69,600 | £140,493 | 406 |
| 1997 | £64,500 | £132,276 | 372 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 371 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 295 |
In cash terms the typical SY8 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 124%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SY8 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 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.8%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £352,500 against £110,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SY8
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 | £352,500 | 66 | 4,664 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 33 | 2,242 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 27 | 3,121 |
| Flats | £110,000 | 14 | 729 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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 SY8
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 264 SY8 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 416 sales a year before the financial crisis and 283 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.
The rental side of SY8
For renting purposes SY8 sits in Shropshire. The ONS average private rent there is £813 a month (May 2026). 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 £280,000 median sold price, £813 a month is £9,756 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
What people ask about SY8 (Brimfield)
Are property prices falling in SY8 (Brimfield)?
Is SY8 (Brimfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SY8 (Brimfield)?
Are SY8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SY8 right now
Everything above is what homes in SY8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 40 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the SY8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 13% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SY8 ranks 11 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.
Five-year change in the median, SY area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SY8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SY8 1 | £260,000 | 75 |
| SY8 2 | £272,500 | 33 |
| SY8 3 | £381,200 | 16 |
| SY8 4 | £334,500 | 16 |
How SY8 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in SY8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SY8'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 SY8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SY8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SY8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SY8 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.