SN16 house prices are built from 8,183 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £247,995. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.0%.
Median price paid
£247,995
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+36.8%
Change in real terms
-2.0%
Median per m²
£2,746
HM Land Registry8,183 sales1,231 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SN16 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SN16 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 | £89,950 | £199,731 |
| 2000s | 10 | £225,000 | £409,884 |
| 2010s | 10 | £285,000 | £401,850 |
| 2020s | 7 | £389,995 | £398,473 |
The highest yearly median on record for SN16 is £410,000 in 2024; the lowest is £84,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £84,500 to £390,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £187,630, so the real change over the whole record is +107.9% — about +2.39% 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: +36.8% in cash against -2.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KNIGHTON the Street | 15 Jun 2026 | Detached | £780,000 | £780,000 |
| 19 Minot Close | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 85 White Lion Park | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 29 Milbourne Park | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £338,000 | £338,000 |
| 2 Church Cottages | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £665,000 | £665,000 |
| 2 Cole Close | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| HOLLY COTTAGE Sawyers Hill | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £695,000 | £695,000 |
| 23 Milbourne Park | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| 11 Park Road | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| FLISTRIDGE COTTAGE Flistridge Road | 12 May 2026 | Detached | £950,000 | £950,000 |
| BRAMLEY HOUSE Tellings Orchard | 12 May 2026 | Detached | £740,000 | £740,000 |
| Odd Farm Cottage | 11 May 2026 | Detached | £370,850 | £370,850 |
| 75 Sir Bernard Lovell Road | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 15 Old Alexander Road | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 24 North End Gardens | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 49 Loiret Crescent | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| VILLAGE FARM the Street | 23 Apr 2026 | Detached | £1,460,000 | £1,460,000 |
| 23 Cliff Road | 23 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £680,000 | £680,000 |
| FOXLEIGH Stonehill | 22 Apr 2026 | Detached | £700,000 | £700,000 |
| APPLE TREE HOUSE, 64 Avenue de Gien | 16 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| Ginbac | 15 Apr 2026 | Detached | £630,000 | £630,000 |
| 112 White Lion Park | 9 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £364,000 | £364,000 |
| 16 Barton Way | 2 Apr 2026 | Detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 19 Elmer Close | 30 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 27 Hanks Close | 30 Mar 2026 | Detached | £252,000 | £252,000 |
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 SN16 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KNIGHTON the Street | £480,000 (2016) | £780,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 19 Minot Close | £182,000 (2006) | £295,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 29 Milbourne Park | £80,000 (1997) | £338,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 85 White Lion Park | £240,000 (2011) | £450,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 2 Church Cottages | £35,000 (1996) | £665,000 (2026) | +10.3% | +7.5% |
| 2 Cole Close | £350,000 (2017) | £385,000 (2026) | +1.1% | -2.3% |
| HOLLY COTTAGE Sawyers Hill | £280,000 (2004) | £695,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
| 23 Milbourne Park | £217,500 (2012) | £420,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
| 11 Park Road | £75,500 (1998) | £390,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| BRAMLEY HOUSE Tellings Orchard | £225,000 (1999) | £740,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| FLISTRIDGE COTTAGE Flistridge Road | £565,000 (2009) | £950,000 (2026) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 75 Sir Bernard Lovell Road | £249,995 (2012) | £390,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SN16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 3,473 | 42.4% | £345,000 | £6,000 – £3,175,000 |
| Terraced | 2,035 | 24.9% | £214,000 | £22,540 – £1,400,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1,973 | 24.1% | £220,000 | £8,000 – £1,295,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 702 | 8.6% | £154,000 | £21,000 – £925,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SN16
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,875 certificates cover SN16, and their median floor area is 91 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +19.7%. 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 | 91 m² | about 980 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 68 m² | about 732 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 131 m² | about 1,410 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 15.7% | 294 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 18.4% | 345 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SN16
734 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7,449 freehold — 9.0% 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 £150,000 and the median freehold sale £255,000 — a gap of +70.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 734 | 9.0% | £150,000 |
| Freehold | 7,449 | 91.0% | £255,000 |
| New build | 1,185 | 14.5% | £249,995 |
| Existing home | 6,998 | 85.5% | £246,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +1.4%. 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 400 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 SN16
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cotswold, 39.3% of 49,354 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 9.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 328 | 0.7% |
| B | 7,113 | 14.4% |
| C | 11,955 | 24.2% |
| D | 15,222 | 30.8% |
| E | 10,054 | 20.4% |
| F | 3,707 | 7.5% |
| G | 975 | 2.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cotswold at £1,251 a month as of Jun 2026 — £869 for a one-bedroom home and £1,342 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £247,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.05% 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 SN16, 28 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 7 violent, 3 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 6.0 times quieter.
Against the 90,832 residents the 2021 census counted in Cotswold, that is 0.31 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 SN16
The 2021 census counted 90,832 residents in Cotswold across 40,597 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a SN16 postcode: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malmesbury School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,438 |
| Malmesbury Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 410 |
| Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 174 |
| Crudwell CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 132 |
| Sherston CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 127 |
| Minety Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 108 |
| Oaksey CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 83 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Malmesbury | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 77 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kemble Rail Station | Rail | 10.4 km |
| Chippenham Rail Station | Rail | 14.6 km |
| Stroud (Glos) Rail Station | Rail | 19.2 km |
| Swindon Rail Station | Rail | 21.1 km |
Section 09
How SN16 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SN16 sits above that national figure — +57.5%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,746 per square metre, across 1,231 of the 8,183 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 £3,175,000. 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.
SN16 sits in Cotswold, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cotswold at 13.4 times median local earnings of £33,872 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
Sectors inside SN16
The closest districts
- SN1513.3 km · £177,125
- SN1415.1 km · £180,000
- SN517.3 km · £132,000
- SN1118.1 km · £167,500
- GL718.6 km · £231,000
- GL518.6 km · £167,500
- SN418.9 km · £194,950
- SN2519.2 km · £173,000
This district mostly covers Malmesbury.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SN16?
The median price paid in SN16 across every sale on the register is £247,995. 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 SN16?
8,183 sales are on record for SN16, 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 SN16 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SN16 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £410,000, 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 SN16?
£2,746 per square metre, from the 1,231 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, “SN16 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.