The typical Corsham house sells for about £345,000. Flats go for under £180,000. Detached houses get close to half a million. Prices have barely moved in a year. That's Wiltshire money for a town built out of the same stone as Bath.
The Land Registry recorded 127 sales in the year to late May 2026, at a typical price of about £345,000. The split by type is wider than the headline suggests. The 32 terraces that sold went for around £299,000, the 39 semis for about £360,000 and the 36 detached houses for just under £500,000. Only 20 flats changed hands, at about £176,000. So the median is really a semi-detached house wearing a middle-of-the-road price tag, and anyone quoting it at you is describing a house you may never view.
The official house price index for the area put the average price at about £327,000 in May 2026, up about 2% on a year earlier. That's small. It won't make anyone rich this year, and it won't frighten anyone either. Flats went the other way, down about 2% over the same twelve months. That's also small, but it's the difference between the part of the market people are queuing for and the part they're politely stepping round.
Band C is the most common council-tax band in Corsham, and about 34% of homes sit in bands A or B. Wiltshire's band D bill is about £2,570 a year, and band A is about £1,720. The band D figure is the one to compare against whatever you're paying now. For most people it'll look like the same bill with a nicer view out of the window.
Renting is priced at county level. The typical private rent across the Wiltshire area was about £1,060 a month in April 2026, up about 7% on a year earlier. That's a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of Corsham listings, so it reads as a Wiltshire average and not a quote for the High Street. By size, a one-bed averaged about £730 a month, a two-bed about £950, a three-bed about £1,190 and a four-bed or larger about £1,710. No reliable figure exists for studios or rooms, so none is given. Rents climbing faster than prices is the landlord's good news, and nobody else's.
Median household income in the area was modelled at about £63,500 before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Set against a typical sale of £345,000, that puts Corsham within reach of a two-income household with a proper deposit. For a single buyer on one salary it's a stretch, unless the target is one of those rare flats. It's a comfortable town, and it's priced for people who are already comfortable.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 93% of them, the median price was about £3,870 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 92 square metres. That's a house with room to live in, not a period mansion. The Georgian frontages get the attention, but the price per square metre is set by the ordinary family homes behind them.
Census 2021 puts about 8% of Corsham's homes at one bedroom, 25% at two, 40% at three and 28% at four or more. Three bedrooms is the default setting, and a four-bed is far easier to find than a one-bed. First-time buyers hunting for something small are shopping in the narrowest aisle in town.
House prices are one of Corsham's stronger points. It isn't cheap, but it's fairly priced for the size and setting you get, and steady enough that nobody is buying at the top of a spike.