SN1 5 house prices are built from 3,858 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £109,025. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +48.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.2%.
Median price paid
£109,025
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+48.3%
Change in real terms
+6.2%
Median per m²
£1,429
HM Land Registry3,858 sales1,252 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SN1 5 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SN1 5 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £42,950 | £95,369 |
| 2000s | 10 | £106,250 | £193,556 |
| 2010s | 10 | £120,000 | £169,200 |
| 2020s | 7 | £193,750 | £197,962 |
The highest yearly median on record for SN1 5 is £204,000 in 2024; the lowest is £39,250 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £196,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,819, so the real change over the whole record is +121.2% — about +2.59% 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: +48.3% in cash against +6.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Stanier Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 37 Newburn Crescent | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 10 ROWAN HOUSE Holbrook Way | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 64 Curtis Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £213,000 | £213,000 |
| 50 William Street | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £106,000 | £106,000 |
| 19 Crombey Street | 27 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 7 Stanier Street | 27 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £179,000 | £179,000 |
| 144 William Street | 23 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 43 Newhall Street | 10 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 44 Newhall Street | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 39 Cambria Place | 23 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 30 Chester Street | 9 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £242,500 | £242,500 |
| 7 Dowling Street | 27 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £194,500 | £194,500 |
| 18 Ford Street | 27 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 30 Stanier Street | 18 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £172,000 | £172,000 |
| FLAT D 22 Park Lane | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £117,000 | £117,000 |
| FLAT 11 GUILD HOUSE Farnsby Street | 11 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £74,000 | £74,000 |
| 164 William Street | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 28 Morse Street | 30 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £198,000 | £198,000 |
| 18 Bristol Street | 29 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £152,000 | £152,000 |
| 6 Butterworth Street | 27 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 34 Cambria Place | 26 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 84 Wootton Bassett Road | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £233,200 | £238,270 |
| 27 Dowling Street | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £217,000 | £221,717 |
| 9 Taunton Street | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £151,500 | £154,793 |
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 SN1 5 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Stanier Street | £37,000 (1995) | £200,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 50 William Street | £102,500 (2007) | £106,000 (2026) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| 7 Stanier Street | £33,500 (1997) | £179,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 19 Crombey Street | £70,000 (2000) | £180,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 144 William Street | £95,000 (2005) | £205,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| 43 Newhall Street | £41,000 (1996) | £195,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.7% |
| 44 Newhall Street | £61,500 (1999) | £225,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 39 Cambria Place | £68,000 (1999) | £220,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 30 Chester Street | £82,500 (2009) | £242,500 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.5% |
| 7 Dowling Street | £112,500 (2003) | £194,500 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
| FLAT D 22 Park Lane | £105,000 (2016) | £117,000 (2026) | +1.1% | -2.2% |
| FLAT 11 GUILD HOUSE Farnsby Street | £90,000 (2016) | £74,000 (2026) | -1.9% | -5.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SN1 5 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 | 3,138 | 81.3% | £110,000 | £350 – £680,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 616 | 16.0% | £105,000 | £11,000 – £235,000 |
| Semi-detached | 91 | 2.4% | £137,000 | £32,500 – £280,000 |
| Detached | 13 | 0.3% | £120,000 | £40,250 – £270,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SN1 5
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,117 certificates cover SN1 5, and their median floor area is 71 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 71 m² | about 764 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 47 m² | about 506 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 85 m² | about 915 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 38.0% | 425 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 1.5% | 17 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SN1 5
1,419 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,439 freehold — 36.8% 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 £107,000 and the median freehold sale £110,000 — a gap of +2.8%. 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 | 1,419 | 36.8% | £107,000 |
| Freehold | 2,439 | 63.2% | £110,000 |
| New build | 268 | 6.9% | £115,950 |
| Existing home | 3,590 | 93.1% | £108,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +6.9%. 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 478 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 SN1 5
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 715 | 0.7% |
| B | 15,600 | 14.6% |
| C | 42,470 | 39.8% |
| D | 36,357 | 34.1% |
| E | 9,531 | 8.9% |
| F | 1,557 | 1.5% |
| G | 415 | 0.4% |
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 £109,025 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.01% 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 SN1, 493 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 154 violent, 5 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 130 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.0 times busier.
Against the 233,407 residents the 2021 census counted in Swindon, that is 2.11 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 SN1 5
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.
10 state and independent schools have a SN1 postcode: 7 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Commonweal School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,442 |
| Drove Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 706 |
| The Deanery CofE Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 670 |
| Lethbridge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 472 |
| Robert Le Kyng Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 411 |
| Holy Rood Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 381 |
| King William Street Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 198 |
| UTC Swindon | Secondary | University technical college | 182 |
| Kingfisher CE Academy | Primary | Free schools | 148 |
| Lift East Wichel | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Swindon Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Kemble Rail Station | Rail | 21.2 km |
| Bedwyn Rail Station | Rail | 23.5 km |
| Pewsey Rail Station | Rail | 23.8 km |
Section 09
How SN1 5 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SN1 5 sits below that national figure — -30.8%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,429 per square metre, across 1,252 of the 3,858 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 £350 to £680,000. 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.
SN1 5 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Other sectors in SN1
- SN1 1£112,000 median
- SN1 2£120,000 median
- SN1 3£134,998 median
- SN1 4£165,000 median
- SN1 7£231,995 median
The wider district is SN1.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SN1 5?
The median price paid in SN1 5 across every sale on the register is £109,025. 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 SN1 5?
3,858 sales are on record for SN1 5, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SN1 5 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SN1 5 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £204,000, set in 2024. 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 SN1 5?
£1,429 per square metre, from the 1,252 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 12 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, “SN1 5 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.