SN8 house prices are built from 12,100 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £270,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +17.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.7%.
Median price paid
£270,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+17.6%
Change in real terms
-15.7%
Median per m²
£2,765
HM Land Registry12,100 sales1,188 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SN8 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SN8 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 | £112,000 | £248,693 |
| 2000s | 10 | £241,000 | £439,031 |
| 2010s | 10 | £325,000 | £458,250 |
| 2020s | 7 | £442,000 | £451,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for SN8 is £465,000 in 2024; the lowest is £91,834 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £91,834 to £440,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £203,915, so the real change over the whole record is +115.8% — about +2.51% 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: +17.6% in cash against -15.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Salisbury Road | 25 Jun 2026 | Detached | £527,500 | £527,500 |
| Grey Gables | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £505,000 | £505,000 |
| KENNET MEAD Pewsey Road | 16 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £470,000 | £470,000 |
| CASTLEMAYNE COTTAGE, 3 – 5 Castle Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £540,000 | £540,000 |
| 4 Grove Place | 11 Jun 2026 | Detached | £800,000 | £800,000 |
| 12 Hawkins Meadow | 2 Jun 2026 | Detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 12 | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 4 Town Mill | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £455,000 | £455,000 |
| 41 Kingsbury Street | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £262,500 | £262,500 |
| 8 Clarendon Court | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £665,000 | £665,000 |
| 10 Vicarage Close | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 2 Stibb Green | 27 May 2026 | Terraced | £412,000 | £412,000 |
| 2 FIVE ALLS COURT London Road | 27 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| WARDENS FLAT 9 CASTLE COURT River Park | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 12 Church Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 7 POULTON COTTAGES Tin Pit | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 30 Manton Hollow | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £530,000 | £530,000 |
| SANDHILLS, 3 Manton Close | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £465,000 | £465,000 |
| 18 Rogers Meadow | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| HARDING SEVERALL Newtown | 18 May 2026 | Detached | £760,000 | £760,000 |
| 53 High Street | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 1 Severalls | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £457,500 | £457,500 |
| LEGHORN HOUSE Cadley Road | 11 May 2026 | Detached | £614,000 | £614,000 |
| 9 Gales Ground | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 40 Lottage Road | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
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 SN8 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Salisbury Road | £435,000 (2010) | £527,500 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| KENNET MEAD Pewsey Road | £250,000 (2006) | £470,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| CASTLEMAYNE COTTAGE, 3 – 5 Castle Street | £345,000 (2004) | £540,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 4 Grove Place | £600,000 (2016) | £800,000 (2026) | +2.9% | -0.5% |
| 12 Hawkins Meadow | £165,000 (2001) | £425,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| 41 Kingsbury Street | £161,000 (2004) | £262,500 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.6% |
| 8 Clarendon Court | £525,000 (2012) | £665,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.2% |
| 10 Vicarage Close | £96,000 (1995) | £510,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.9% |
| 2 Stibb Green | £113,000 (1999) | £412,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 2 FIVE ALLS COURT London Road | £190,000 (2004) | £285,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| WARDENS FLAT 9 CASTLE COURT River Park | £66,250 (1996) | £170,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.6% |
| 7 POULTON COTTAGES Tin Pit | £82,000 (2001) | £190,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SN8 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 | 5,613 | 46.4% | £380,000 | £21,000 – £11,000,000 |
| Terraced | 2,909 | 24.0% | £213,000 | £19,500 – £1,850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,553 | 21.1% | £240,000 | £18,500 – £3,150,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,025 | 8.5% | £163,000 | £17,500 – £660,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SN8
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,548 certificates cover SN8, and their median floor area is 96 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +26.3%. 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 | 96 m² | about 1,033 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 71 m² | about 764 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 149 m² | about 1,604 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 14.2% | 362 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 24.8% | 631 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SN8
1,291 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,809 freehold — 10.7% 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 £175,000 and the median freehold sale £285,000 — a gap of +62.9%. 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 | 1,291 | 10.7% | £175,000 |
| Freehold | 10,809 | 89.3% | £285,000 |
| New build | 906 | 7.5% | £285,000 |
| Existing home | 11,194 | 92.5% | £270,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +5.6%. 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 519 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 SN8
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 £270,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.85% 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.
No street-level crime was published for SN8 in Jun 2026. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around SN8
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.
13 state and independent schools have a SN8 postcode: 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John's Marlborough | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,692 |
| Marlborough St Mary's CE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 356 |
| Burbage Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 209 |
| Great Bedwyn Church of England School | Primary | Academy converter | 205 |
| St Michael's CofE Aided Primary | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 194 |
| Ramsbury Primary School | Primary | Community school | 186 |
| Preshute Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 135 |
| Collingbourne Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 101 |
| St Katharine's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 93 |
| Baydon St Nicholas Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 81 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bedwyn Rail Station | Rail | 6.7 km |
| Pewsey Rail Station | Rail | 9.3 km |
| Hungerford Rail Station | Rail | 12.0 km |
| Kintbury Rail Station | Rail | 16.6 km |
Section 09
How SN8 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SN8 sits above that national figure — +71.4%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,765 per square metre, across 1,188 of the 12,100 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 £17,500 to £11,000,000. 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.
SN8 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
Sectors inside SN8
The closest districts
- SN417.2 km · £194,950
- SN317.7 km · £155,000
- SN118.0 km · £135,000
- SN220.2 km · £125,000
- SN520.8 km · £132,000
- SN1122.1 km · £167,500
- SN1022.3 km · £185,000
- SN2523.0 km · £173,000
This district mostly covers Marlborough.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SN8?
The median price paid in SN8 across every sale on the register is £270,000. 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 SN8?
12,100 sales are on record for SN8, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SN8 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +17.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SN8 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £465,000, 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 SN8?
£2,765 per square metre, from the 1,188 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 25 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, “SN8 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.