South West

The Swindon property market

An M4-corridor town with fast rail and relative affordability.

Swindon is a large Wiltshire town on the M4 corridor with fast rail links to London and Bristol, a rail-engineering heritage and a diverse modern employment base. Relative affordability against the wider South West underpins commuter demand.

Typical sold price

£160,000

Range £117,900–£247,500 · 750 real sales

HM Land Registry data across SN1, SN3, SN25. Scroll for the full data dashboard.

The data, honestly

Swindon property data dashboard

Every figure here is real and sourced — no estimates, no made-up “valuations”. Each panel updates on its source's own schedule and shows an honest note when data is temporarily unavailable.

Typical sold price

£160,000

Middle 80% from £117,900 to £247,500

Sample

750

real sales

Based on real HM Land Registry sales across SN1, SN3, SN25. Updated on the HM Land Registry cadence.

Council tax (Band D)

£2,438

Swindon · 2026-27

Bands range £1,625 (A) to £4,876 (H). Check a band

Reported crime

565

incidents within ~1 mile · 2026-05

violent crime185
anti social behaviour139
public order62

Flood warnings

None

No warnings or alerts in force (~15km)

Live status, not long-term risk. Check long-term risk

Typical EPC band

most common across 52 nearby certificates

An area pattern from registered certificates — never a specific home's rating.

Area profile

On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 4 of 10 — where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.

Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · data.police.uk · Environment Agency · MHCLG · English Indices of Deprivation

Sold prices by postcode

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Every free check for a Swindon postcode in one place — sold prices plus crime, flood, council tax, planning and schools.

Neighbourhoods to know

Where Swindon buyers and investors look

SN1

Old Town

Premium period district.

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SN25

Abbey Meads / Priory Vale

Modern northern family housing.

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SN3

Stratton / Covingham

Established east-side family areas.

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SN5

West Swindon

Popular, mixed family demand.

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The market in context

Understanding Swindon

Old Town is the premium period district, the northern expansion around Abbey Meads and Priory Vale offers modern family housing, and the older central areas are more affordable. Build era is as important as location across the town.

For investors, affordability and a strong commute are the draws; for owner-occupiers, Old Town and the newer northern estates sit at opposite ends of the market. Anchor decisions in the live data below.

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Swindon property guides

Honest, practical guidance for every situation — nine in-depth guides, each anchored in Swindon's real local data and our free tools.

Sell your house fast in Swindon“Sell fast” can mean a genuine cash purchase in two weeks or a well-priced open-market sale in two months. The right answer depends on how much speed you actually need and how much value you are willing to trade for it. Here is the honest version — no pressure, no inflated promises — anchored in real Swindon sold prices.House prices & market in SwindonWhat is actually selling in Swindon, and for how much? This page is built on real HM Land Registry transactions — not portal “estimates” or asking prices — so you can see the typical price, the realistic range and which way the market has been moving.Selling an inherited property in SwindonSelling a home you have inherited in Swindon comes with a few extra steps — probate, tax and an empty property to look after — but none of them need to be overwhelming. Here is a calm, honest walk-through, with real local data so you can value the property properly.Selling during divorce in SwindonThe family home is usually the largest asset in a separation, and decisions about it are easier when both people are working from the same honest numbers. This is a practical, neutral guide to the options in Swindon — with real local data to ground the conversation.Selling a leasehold flat in SwindonLeasehold flats sell perfectly well — but the lease itself can make or break the deal. Knowing your lease length, ground rent and service charges before you market in Swindon puts you in control and prevents nasty surprises late in the process.Selling with tenants in situ in SwindonAs a Swindon landlord you have a genuine choice: sell with the tenants in situ to another investor, or sell with vacant possession to the wider market. Each route has a different buyer, timeline and price — here is how to decide.Selling a problem property in SwindonSome homes are hard to sell through the usual channels — subsidence, a short lease, structural issues, damp, non-standard construction, or simply uninhabitable. They are not unsellable; they just need the right route and an honest price. Here is how to approach it in Swindon.Best areas to live in Swindon“Best” depends on what you need — schools, a commute, nightlife, value, or peace and quiet. Rather than hand you a ranked list that ignores your priorities, this guide explains the Swindon neighbourhoods to know and gives you the live data to compare them on what matters to you.Buy-to-let & yields in SwindonSwindon attracts plenty of investor interest, but “is it a good buy-to-let city?” is the wrong question — the right one is “does this specific deal work?”. Here is what drives Swindon's rental market and how to underwrite a purchase honestly, with live local prices to start from.

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Questions, answered

Selling and buying in Swindon: your questions

How do I find out what homes in Swindon actually sold for?

Every completed sale in England and Wales is recorded by HM Land Registry, and we surface those real figures — not estimates — for SN1 and the other Swindon districts on our sold-prices pages. You see the price each property genuinely changed hands for, with the sample size behind any median, so you are reading the market as it actually traded rather than an algorithm's guess.

Are online “instant valuations” for Swindon accurate?

Treat them as a starting point, not a fact. An instant valuation is a model's estimate, and two tools will happily disagree by tens of thousands of pounds on the same Swindon home. We deliberately never show a single made-up number — instead we show the real sold prices nearby and the honest range around them, which is the figure buyers, surveyors and cash purchasers actually work from.

How quickly can I sell a house in Swindon?

It depends entirely on the route. A genuine cash purchase can complete in two to three weeks but pays below market value for that certainty; a well-priced open-market sale in Swindon usually takes longer but nets the most; auction sits in between with a fixed timetable. Our “sell your house fast” guide for Swindon walks through the real trade-offs without the pressure.

What does it cost to sell a home in Swindon?

Expect estate-agent fees, conveyancing, an EPC and any early-repayment charge on your mortgage; a cash or auction sale trades some of that for a lower headline price. Our free cost-of-selling and stamp-duty tools let you put real Swindon numbers in and see what you would actually walk away with.

Which Swindon neighbourhoods should I look at?

Old Town, Abbey Meads / Priory Vale, Stratton / Covingham and West Swindon each behave differently on price and demand, which is why we link every Swindon district straight to its own sold-price page rather than quoting one city-wide average. Read each area at outward-code level — SN1, SN3, SN25 and the rest — to see where value and competition really sit.

Is the data on this Swindon page an estimate?

No. Every hard figure on this page comes from a named public source — HM Land Registry for sold prices, the council for tax bands, the police and Environment Agency for crime and flood risk, and the official register for EPC ratings. When a source is briefly unavailable we say so plainly and show the rest, rather than filling the gap with a number we invented.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · postcodes.io / ONS · data.police.uk · Environment Agency · MHCLG council tax · English Indices of Deprivation (England). All figures are real and attributed — never estimates. About Your Property Check.