Melksham house prices

Melksham house prices are built from 16,297 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £167,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +38.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.1%.

HM Land Registry16,297 sales2,983 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Melksham 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 Melksham is £306,500 in 2022; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £290,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +137.5% — about +2.83% 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: +38.1% in cash against -1.1% 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 Melksham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Melksham 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. 3,102 certificates cover Melksham, and their median floor area is 83 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. 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.

1,426 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14,871 freehold — 8.8% 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 £103,500 and the median freehold sale £176,000 — a gap of +70.0%. 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 — +36.3%. 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 591 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 Wiltshire, 46.2% of 244,491 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% 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 Wiltshire at £1,069 a month as of Jun 2026 — £740 for a one-bedroom home and £1,204 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £167,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.66% 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 SN12, 138 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 51 violent, 2 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.

Against the 510,333 residents the 2021 census counted in Wiltshire, that is 0.27 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 510,333 residents in Wiltshire across 215,081 households. 68.0% of those households own their home and 31.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

10 state and independent schools have a SN12 postcode: 9 primary, 1 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. Melksham sits above that national figure — +6.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,143 per square metre, across 2,983 of the 16,297 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 £6,000 to £3,000,000. 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.

Melksham sits in Wiltshire, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wiltshire at 8.8 times median local earnings of £36,370 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 Melksham

• Primrose Drive249 sales
• Spa Road238 sales
• Forest Road217 sales
• Bath Road212 sales
• Semington Road212 sales
• Daisy Close200 sales
• Weavers Crofts192 sales
• Skylark Road187 sales
• Lowbourne178 sales
• Savernake Avenue169 sales
• Hornchurch Road164 sales
• Woodrow Road161 sales
• Barnes Wallis Close158 sales
• Market Place155 sales
• Kenilworth Gardens147 sales
• Speedwell Close147 sales
• Locking Close142 sales
• Beanacre Road137 sales
• Marigold Close135 sales
• Union Street135 sales
• Bowmans Court128 sales
• Foresters Park Road122 sales
• Mills Road120 sales
• Godwins Close118 sales
• Church Lane117 sales
• Tower Road116 sales
• Ingram Road113 sales
• Snarlton Lane113 sales
• Hazelwood Road112 sales
• Sandridge Road112 sales
• The Street110 sales
• Burnet Close108 sales
• Linnet Lane108 sales
• Berryfield Park104 sales
• Cranesbill Road101 sales
• Hawthorn Road99 sales
• Malvern Close99 sales
• Roundpond99 sales
• Scotland Road98 sales
• Foundry Close94 sales
• Top Lane94 sales
• Brecon Close93 sales
• Belvedere Road92 sales
• Shaw Hill91 sales
• Basil Drive90 sales
• Newleaze Park88 sales
• Longford Road87 sales
• Bader Park86 sales
• Queensway85 sales
• Kittyhawk Close84 sales
• Sweetbriar Road82 sales
• West End81 sales
• High Street80 sales
• Bradford Road79 sales
• Sherwood Avenue79 sales
• Heather Avenue77 sales
• Southbrook Road76 sales
• Westbury View76 sales
• Magister Road72 sales
• Church Walk71 sales

Postcode districts covering Melksham

• SN12£167,500 median

What is the average house price in Melksham?

The median price paid in Melksham across every sale on the register is £167,500. 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 Melksham?

16,297 sales are on record for Melksham, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Melksham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +38.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Melksham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £306,500, set in 2022. 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 Melksham?

£2,143 per square metre, from the 2,983 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 29 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, “Melksham 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.