Powys
SY5 house prices in Powys
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Powys, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£320,000
Range £184,750–£585,000 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 21 Aug 2025 and 12 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in SY5: the typical (median) sold price is £320,000, above the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). SY5 is an active market, with about 21 recorded sales a month. By property type, 58% were detached homes (typically £371,250) and 28% were semi-detached homes (typically £250,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Across the 12 most recently sold SY5 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 6 of 10, where 10 is the least deprived.
Source: Deprivation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on SY5: steady sales, so price from the evidence
SY5 is neither busy nor quiet, at about 21 sales a month, which is enough to price from, though not enough history for us to call a clear twelve-month direction.
If you are thinking of selling, most SY5 sales sit between £184,750 and £585,000, which makes £320,000 a blunt instrument, so price from sold homes that match yours in type and size; roughly 21 sales a month is enough for buyers to compare, so evidence beats optimism.
Sell houseIf you are looking to buy, SY5 sits above the UK average for typical prices, so compare any asking price with sold homes of the same type before you commit.
Our checklist before an offer: what has been applied for nearby (43 applications on record within 500 m), flood risk over the long term and the energy rating (EPC), plus the title, which your conveyancer should review.
Averages only go so far, so the free SY5 OfferCheck sets flood, crime, planning and council tax beside the sold prices.
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At a glance
SY5 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£320,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
21.4
Across 250 sales
Freehold sales
96%
Of recorded sales
The data, honestly
House prices in SY5
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in SY5 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £371,250, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £135,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 132 | £371,250 | £265,305–£612,000 |
| Semi-detached | 64 | £250,000 | £170,800–£387,000 |
| Terraced | 27 | £240,000 | £173,800–£364,797 |
| Flat / maisonette | 6 | £135,000 | £96,975–£182,000 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 21 Aug 2025 and 12 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in SY5
The quarterly typical price rose 12.5%, from £305,000 in Q3 2025 (38 sales) to £343,000 in Q3 2026 (23 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2025 | £305,000 | 38 |
| Q4 2025 | £317,475 | 94 |
| Q1 2026 | £322,500 | 56 |
| Q2 2026 | £340,000 | 39 |
| Q3 2026 | £343,000 | 23 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 21 Aug 2025 and 12 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of SY5 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most SY5 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £184,750 and £585,000, around a typical £320,000.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 21 Aug 2025 and 12 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in SY5
Detached homes were 58% of recorded sales (132 of 229). 96% of sales were freehold and 4% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached58%
- Semi-detached28%
- Terraced12%
- Flat / maisonette3%
Tenure
- Freehold96%
- Leasehold4%
See the figures
240 freehold (96%) and 10 leasehold (4%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in SY5, including 8 new-build sales. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 21 Aug 2025 and 12 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
THE OLD BARNS, SHREWSBURY
£320,000 (2025)£425,000 (2026)+32.8% over 0.7 yrs (+53.5%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where SY5 sits in Powys
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in SY5
LONGNOR PARK BARNS, SHREWSBURY
Terraced · Freehold · 12 Aug 2026
£343,000
39, WHINBERRY DRIVE, SHREWSBURY
Semi-detached · Freehold · 5 Aug 2026
£275,000
4, WOODLANDS AVENUE, SHREWSBURY
Detached · Freehold · 5 Aug 2026
£320,000
UPPER COUND FARM, SHREWSBURY
Semi-detached · Freehold · 3 Aug 2026
£520,000
3, WELL MEAD LANE, SHREWSBURY
Detached · Freehold · 30 Jul 2026
£450,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). SY5 includes the Bicton Heath ward.
In plain English
What the Powys (SY5) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £371,250 against £240,000 for terraced homes: about 1.5 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £184,750 and £585,000, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (96%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 21 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 21 August 2025 and 12 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on SY5
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in SY5
We don't hold published band charges for Powys yet. Your billing authority publishes its own band table each year. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency: check a band on GOV.UK.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities
Schools
Schools near SY5
1
open school within 3 km, nearest Longden CofE Primary School.
All schools
Longden CofE Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · SY5 8EX
526 m
Requires improvement · 2023
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the SY5 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 1 open school within 3 km, 1 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near SY5
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around SY5
43
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 19 October 2026.
Recent applications
Shropshire/25/04196/HHEPermitted
498 m
Erection of a single storey rear extension
Received 2025-11-10 · decided 2025-12-05
Shropshire/23/05318/TPOPermitted
342 m
Crown reduce by 2-3m of 1no Oak protected by the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council (Well Mead Lane, Longden) Tree Preservation Order 1989 (Ref: SA/184)
Received 2023-11-30 · decided 2024-01-19
Shropshire/23/04667/FULRejected
472 m
Erection of two detached dwellings, garages, formation of vehicular access and associated works
Received 2023-10-27 · decided 2024-01-12
Shropshire/22/03858/CPLPermitted
490 m
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for the proposed erection of a single storey extension
Received 2022-08-23 · decided 2022-10-04
Shropshire/19/04385/TPOPermitted
341 m
Reduce crown by 2 - 2.5metres of 1no Oak protected by the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council (Well Mead Lane, Longden) Tree Preservation Order 1989 (Ref: SA/184)
Received 2019-10-03 · decided 2019-11-28
Shropshire/19/00344/FULRejected
475 m
Erection of three terrace houses following removal of existing single storey extensions
Received 2019-01-28 · decided 2019-08-13
Applications are matched within 500 m of the SY5 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for SY5 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 43 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 19 October 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for SY5
Decile 6 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled SY5 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 4 to decile 9, with a median of decile 6 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
SY5 7PP, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 6 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so SY5 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in SY5: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in SY5 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 244 distinct addresses in the records we hold for SY5. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
LONGNOR PARK BARNS, SHREWSBURY
SY5 7PP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£343,000
2026-08-12
39, WHINBERRY DRIVE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8QL · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£275,000
2026-08-05
4, WOODLANDS AVENUE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8NG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£320,000
2026-08-05
UPPER COUND FARM, SHREWSBURY
SY5 6BL · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£520,000
2026-08-03
3, WELL MEAD LANE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8EW · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£450,000
2026-07-30
4, ALDER DRIVE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 0AT · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£239,995
2026-07-30
1, THE LEASOWES, SHREWSBURY
SY5 9LS · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£255,000
2026-07-30
5, BISHOP CLOSE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8BU · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£340,000
2026-07-27
BADGER END COTTAGE, WIGMORE LANE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 9DZ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£365,000
2026-07-24
EVENWOOD COTTAGE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 6BE · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£930,000
2026-07-24
8, ASHFORD PARK, SHREWSBURY
SY5 0QW · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£240,000
2026-07-23
27, WRAY DRIVE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 0FF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£223,000
2026-07-23
8, HAFREN VIEW, SHREWSBURY
SY5 9GR · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£150,000
2026-07-17
60, THE CHESTNUTS, SHREWSBURY
SY5 6JH · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£245,000
2026-07-17
57, MEADOWBOUT WAY, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8QB · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£318,000
2026-07-16
3, WREKIN DOVE CLOSE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8QJ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£410,000
2026-07-13
3, ENGINE HOUSES, SHREWSBURY
SY5 0UQ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£377,000
2026-07-10
HOME FARM BARNS, HOME FARM LANE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 6RR · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£490,000
2026-07-10
106, SEVERN WAY, SHREWSBURY
SY5 6DS · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£300,000
2026-07-09
PARK HOUSE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 7NG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£1,875,000
2026-07-06
NEAR BROADWAY FARM, SHREWSBURY
SY5 9NW · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£500,000
2026-07-03
14, ST THOMAS CLOSE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8JJ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£370,000
2026-07-03
14, BEECH CLOSE, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8RA · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£351,600
2026-07-02
70, SQUINTER PIP WAY, SHREWSBURY
SY5 8PY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£285,000
2026-06-30
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
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The SY5 report: your questions
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Nearby
Postcode districts near SY5
The closest districts to SY5 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in SY3 (Shrewsbury) 4.1 miles
- House prices in SY2 (Shrewsbury) 5.7 miles
- House prices in SY1 (Shrewsbury) 6.3 miles
- House prices in SY6 (Church Stretton) 8 miles
- House prices in SY4 (Shrewsbury) 11 miles
- House prices in TF13 (Much Wenlock) 12 miles
- House prices in SY9 (Bishops Castle) 12 miles
- House prices in TF6 (Telford) 13 miles
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Data sources
Every SY5 figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.