Forest Road, Melksham house prices are built from 217 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £139,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +80.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +31.0%.
Median price paid
£139,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+80.7%
Change in real terms
+31.0%
Median per m²
£1,707
HM Land Registry217 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Forest Road, Melksham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Road, Melksham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £57,500 | £127,677 |
| 2000s | 10 | £134,000 | £244,109 |
| 2010s | 6 | £186,000 | £262,260 |
| 2020s | 6 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Road, Melksham is £272,000 in 2023; the lowest is £54,000 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £244,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,496, so the real change over the whole record is +117.7% — about +2.82% 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: +80.7% in cash against +31.0% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 86 | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 16 | 16 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 9 | 24 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 32 | 24 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 2a | 24 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 84 | 15 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £222,500 | £227,337 |
| Kuara, 40 | 15 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £462,000 | £472,043 |
| 54 | 20 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 70 | 2 May 2025 | Terraced | £244,000 | £249,304 |
| 64 | 20 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 7 | 15 Jan 2025 | Detached | £262,500 | £268,207 |
| 15 | 12 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £352,500 |
| 35 | 6 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £196,000 | £206,239 |
| 60 | 20 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 78 | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 44 | 26 Apr 2024 | Detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 22 | 30 Nov 2023 | Detached | £550,000 | £594,253 |
| 20 | 30 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £321,000 | £346,828 |
| 39 | 10 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £217,000 | £234,460 |
| 46 | 4 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £272,000 | £293,885 |
| 48 | 7 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 41 | 1 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 86 | 29 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 2a | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £200,000 | £231,717 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Forest Road, Melksham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 Forest Road | £68,000 (2001) | £285,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 86 Forest Road | £116,000 (2006) | £255,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 16 Forest Road | £200,000 (2021) | £385,000 (2026) | +14.0% | +8.8% |
| 9 Forest Road | £74,000 (1995) | £450,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 32 Forest Road | £101,150 (2004) | £315,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.6% |
| 2A Forest Road | £200,000 (2022) | £210,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -2.5% |
| 84 Forest Road | £118,000 (2003) | £222,500 (2025) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| 54 Forest Road | £53,500 (1999) | £225,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 70 Forest Road | £58,750 (1999) | £244,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 60 Forest Road | £100,000 (2002) | £230,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 78 Forest Road | £46,500 (1998) | £220,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 44 Forest Road | £120,000 (2000) | £320,000 (2024) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Road, Melksham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 103 | 47.5% | £133,000 | £30,000 – £272,000 |
| Semi-detached | 77 | 35.5% | £163,500 | £45,500 – £462,000 |
| Detached | 34 | 15.7% | £165,000 | £25,000 – £570,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 1.4% | £125,000 | £120,000 – £130,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Road, Melksham
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 214 freehold — 1.4% 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 £125,000 and the median freehold sale £141,000 — a gap of +12.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 3 | 1.4% | £125,000 |
| Freehold | 214 | 98.6% | £141,000 |
| New build | 3 | 1.4% | £120,000 |
| Existing home | 214 | 98.6% | £139,975 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -14.3%. 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 7 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.
Section 07
Living in Forest Road, Melksham
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,879 | 0.8% |
| B | 35,247 | 14.4% |
| C | 75,811 | 31.0% |
| D | 82,467 | 33.7% |
| E | 35,498 | 14.5% |
| F | 10,863 | 4.4% |
| G | 2,726 | 1.1% |
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 £139,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.17% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Forest Road, Melksham
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melksham Oak Community School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,058 |
| Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 460 |
| Bowerhill Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 378 |
| Aloeric Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 360 |
| River Mead School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 261 |
| Shaw CE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 189 |
| Churchfields, the Village School | Primary | Academy converter | 121 |
| The Manor CofE VC Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 121 |
| Seend Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 71 |
| St Mary's Broughton Gifford Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 61 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Melksham Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Trowbridge Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
| Bradford-on-Avon Rail Station | Rail | 8.6 km |
| Chippenham Rail Station | Rail | 10.2 km |
Section 09
How Forest Road, Melksham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Road, Melksham sits below that national figure — -11.1%.
Within Melksham the street ranks 280 of 374 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £167,500 (-16.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,707 per square metre, across 53 of the 217 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 £25,000 to £570,000. 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.
Forest Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Primrose Drive£110,128 median
- Spa Road£81,000 median
- Bath Road£240,000 median
- Semington Road£149,998 median
- Daisy Close£84,000 median
- Weavers Crofts£109,750 median
- Skylark Road£235,000 median
- Lowbourne£121,950 median
- Savernake Avenue£159,950 median
- Hornchurch Road£199,998 median
- Woodrow Road£185,000 median
- Barnes Wallis Close£117,475 median
- Market Place£90,000 median
- Kenilworth Gardens£126,500 median
- Speedwell Close£115,000 median
- Locking Close£166,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 54 Forest Road7 sales
- 20 Forest Road6 sales
- 132 Forest Road6 sales
- 110 Forest Road5 sales
- 9 Forest Road5 sales
- 48 Forest Road5 sales
- 41 Forest Road5 sales
- 70 Forest Road4 sales
- 78 Forest Road4 sales
- 96 Forest Road4 sales
- 81 Forest Road4 sales
- 93 Forest Road4 sales
- 69 Forest Road4 sales
- 62 Forest Road4 sales
- 74 Forest Road4 sales
- 112 Forest Road4 sales
- 86 Forest Road3 sales
- 32 Forest Road3 sales
- 84 Forest Road3 sales
- 60 Forest Road3 sales
- 22 Forest Road3 sales
- 39 Forest Road3 sales
- 33 Forest Road3 sales
- 89 Forest Road3 sales
Back to Melksham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Road, Melksham?
The median price paid in Forest Road, Melksham across every sale on the register is £139,950. 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 Forest Road, Melksham?
217 sales are on record for Forest Road, Melksham, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Road, Melksham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +80.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +31.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Road, Melksham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £272,000, set in 2023. 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 Forest Road, Melksham?
£1,707 per square metre, from the 53 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 5 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, “Forest Road, 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.