A typical Colerne house sells for about £340,000, which is the middle of the market with a very expensive attic. Terraces go for more than semis. The detached houses are priced like a different village. Only a handful of homes change hands in a year. Most buyers here pay a mid-market price, and a small detached top end pays a lot more.
The Land Registry recorded 17 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of £340,000. Seventeen is a small number, so this is a village where one farmhouse coming to market can move the headline figure. By type, the seven semi-detached sales had a median of £282,000, the five terraces £297,000 and the five detached houses £700,000. The terraces beating the semis is the quirk worth noticing. In most places the semi is the step up. In Colerne the older terraced stock near the village core holds its price, and the post-war semis are the cheaper way in.
Prices across the wider index area have barely moved. The official house price index put the average at about £327,000 in May 2026, up 1.6% on a year earlier. A change that small doesn't make anyone rich. Flats fell 1.8% over the same period, which matters very little in a village with almost no flats to sell.
Band C is the most common council-tax band, and 27% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to about £2,570 a year, which gives you a number to set against your current one. The band spread is gentler than the detached sale prices suggest, because most of the stock sits in the middle bands along with most of the buyers.
Renting is harder to pin down for Colerne itself. Typical private rent across the Wiltshire area was about £1,060 a month as of April 2026. That's a county-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of Colerne listings. By bedroom count, the Wiltshire figures are about £730 a month for a one-bed, £950 for a two-bed, £1,190 for a three-bed and £1,710 for four or more. Few of those one-beds exist in Colerne, so the three-bed figure is the one most renters will end up paying.
Household income in the area is modelled at around £68,000 a year, gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. It's a modelled average for the area rather than a current payslip, but it puts a £340,000 semi or terrace within reach of a two-income household on local money. The £700,000 detached houses are a different matter. Those buyers usually arrive with equity from a sale elsewhere.
Among the sales matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is 88% of the sales measured, the median price was about £3,900 per square metre, on a typical floor area of around 90 square metres. That's a normal family house at a normal family price. Nobody is paying extra for a view they could have had from a smaller house further down the hill.
Census 2021 counts 52% of homes with three bedrooms, 26% with four or more, 21% with two and 2% with one. That makes Colerne a three-bed village, with a solid second tier of family houses and almost nothing for a single buyer on a first salary. The shortage of small homes is the price problem here, more than the price per square metre.
Colerne is middling on cost. It's fair value if a three-bed semi or terrace is what you're after, and steep if the plan was a detached house with land on a family budget.