Swindon house prices

Swindon house prices are built from 153,481 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £154,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +35.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.9%.

HM Land Registry153,481 sales26,777 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Swindon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Swindon is £290,000 in 2025; the lowest is £54,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £54,500 to £282,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £121,016, so the real change over the whole record is +133.0% — about +2.77% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +35.6% in cash against -2.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Swindon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swindon is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 30,677 certificates cover Swindon, and their median floor area is 79 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

23,317 of the sales on record are leasehold and 130,164 freehold — 15.2% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £118,000 and the median freehold sale £167,000 — a gap of +41.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +16.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 7,083 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Swindon, 55.1% of 106,645 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Swindon at £1,091 a month as of Jun 2026 — £816 for a one-bedroom home and £1,212 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £154,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.50% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SN25, 162 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 69 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 39 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 233,407 residents the 2021 census counted in Swindon, that is 0.69 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 233,407 residents in Swindon across 95,861 households. 64.9% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

16 state and independent schools have a SN25 postcode: 14 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swindon sits below that national figure — -2.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,974 per square metre, across 26,777 of the 153,481 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £1.00 to £3,700,500. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Swindon sits in Swindon, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Swindon at 7.0 times median local earnings of £40,280 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Swindon

• High Street1,302 sales
• Cricklade Road889 sales
• Ferndale Road831 sales
• Marlborough Road714 sales
• Windrush686 sales
• Swindon Road522 sales
• Cheney Manor Road482 sales
• Ermin Street437 sales
• Redcliffe Street431 sales
• Barnum Court408 sales
• Homington Avenue407 sales
• Station Road390 sales
• Fire Fly Avenue383 sales
• St Austell Way378 sales
• Kingshill Road375 sales
• Queen Elizabeth Drive364 sales
• Clifton Street350 sales
• Whitworth Road347 sales
• Bath Road344 sales
• William Street335 sales
• Redhouse Way333 sales
• Dunsford Close326 sales
• Eastbury Way326 sales
• Knowlands323 sales
• Chatsworth Road317 sales
• Sevenfields300 sales
• Shrivenham Road298 sales
• Dixon Street295 sales
• Albion Street294 sales
• Copse Avenue292 sales
• Prospero Way291 sales
• Padstow Road289 sales
• Lynmouth Road283 sales
• Stafford Street282 sales
• Argyle Street281 sales
• The Cullerns281 sales
• Pasteur Drive280 sales
• Oxford Road271 sales
• Thornhill Drive269 sales
• Tamworth Drive262 sales
• Wynwards Road260 sales
• The Street258 sales
• Avonmead256 sales
• Cloatley Crescent252 sales
• Goddard Avenue252 sales
• Rosebery Street250 sales
• New Road248 sales
• Dean Street246 sales
• Brunel Crescent245 sales
• Celsus Grove245 sales
• Beckhampton Street244 sales
• Graham Street243 sales
• Pasture Close243 sales
• Winton Road243 sales
• Drove Road238 sales
• Pheasant Close237 sales
• Ridge Nether Moor237 sales
• Thetford Way232 sales
• Gifford Road231 sales
• Castle Dore230 sales

Postcode districts covering Swindon

• SN25£173,000 median
• SN3£155,000 median
• SN2£125,000 median
• SN5£132,000 median
• SN1£135,000 median
• SN4£194,950 median
• SN6£211,000 median
• SN26£325,000 median

What is the average house price in Swindon?

The median price paid in Swindon across every sale on the register is £154,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Swindon?

153,481 sales are on record for Swindon, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Swindon house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +35.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Swindon house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £290,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Swindon?

£1,974 per square metre, from the 26,777 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Swindon house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.