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Bishop's Castle market report SY9, Bishops Castle

The standing SY9 (Bishop's Castle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,119 registered sales in SY9 (Bishops Castle) 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 June 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the 2026 median for SY9 (Bishops Castle) is £257,000, from 6 registered sales, down 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £277,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,119 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

SY9 is the postcode district covering Bishop's Castle, Wentnor in Bishops Castle. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.

Today's SY9 prices, from the sold record

Across 6 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SY9 home went for £257,000. The mean is £277,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.

What a square metre costs in SY9

The last five years of sales put SY9 at roughly £2,880 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SY9 10% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical SY9 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £257,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 157%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 40% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2011 (+37.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−18.3%). 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

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, 53% of the typed total.

Sales activity in SY9

The register shows 26 SY9 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 43 sales a year before the financial crisis and 27 a year over the last five. 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.

Rents around SY9

For renting purposes SY9 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.

£813 a month is £9,756 a year, which against the £257,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.

How SY9 trades

This is a thin market: 26 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.

Common questions on SY9 (Bishop's Castle)

Are SY9 prices heading up or down?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 16% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

SY9's current homes for sale

Moving up a bedroom in SY: the cost

The risers and the fallers

SY9 ranks 24 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.

Inside SY9, sector by sector

Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.

How SY9 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SY area, dearest first:

Thinking of selling in SY9? Get a rough value first

Keep digging

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SY9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

See every individual SY9 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.

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.