Lowbourne, Melksham house prices

Lowbourne, Melksham house prices are built from 178 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £121,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +18.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.9%.

HM Land Registry178 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Lowbourne, Melksham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Lowbourne, Melksham is £156,000 in 2007; the lowest is £91,500 in 2015. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £124,450 to £108,750.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £235,221, so the real change over the whole record is -52.8% — about -3.35% 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: +18.9% in cash against -13.9% 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 Lowbourne, 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. Lowbourne, Melksham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

138 of the sales on record are leasehold and 40 freehold — 77.5% 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 £117,450 and the median freehold sale £170,500 — a gap of +45.2%. 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 — +7.1%. 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.

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 £121,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.52% 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. Lowbourne, Melksham sits below that national figure — -22.6%.

Within Melksham the street ranks 328 of 374 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £167,500 (-27.2%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,224 per square metre, across 50 of the 178 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 £45,500 to £855,000. 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.

Lowbourne, 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 nearby

• Primrose Drive£110,128 median
• Spa Road£81,000 median
• Forest Road£139,950 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
• 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

• 32 Lowbourne7 sales
• FLAT 12, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne6 sales
• FLAT 17, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne6 sales
• FLAT 10, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne5 sales
• FLAT 22, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• 52 Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 39, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 31, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 29, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 3, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• 19 Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 2, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 23, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 3, HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 66 Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 6, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne4 sales
• FLAT 44, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 7, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 33, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 1, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 16, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 5, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 1, HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 66 Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 8, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales
• FLAT 41, GIFFORDS COURT Lowbourne3 sales

Back to Melksham house prices.

What is the average house price in Lowbourne, Melksham?

The median price paid in Lowbourne, Melksham across every sale on the register is £121,950. 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 Lowbourne, Melksham?

178 sales are on record for Lowbourne, Melksham, the most recent completing on 15 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lowbourne, Melksham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +18.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lowbourne, Melksham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £156,000, set in 2007. 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 Lowbourne, Melksham?

£2,224 per square metre, from the 50 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 15 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, “Lowbourne, 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.