Houses in Old Sarum run to a median of about £290,500, which is a good deal less ancient money than the name promises. Detached is where the spending happens. Flats are the cheap door in. Three and four bedrooms dominate the stock. The address sounds like a ruin on a hill, and the price is for a modern house with somewhere to park.
The Land Registry logged 50 sales in the year to May 2026, at that median of about £290,500. Detached homes came in around £462,500 across 11 sales, semi-detached around £335,000 across 15, terraces around £265,000 across 13, and flats around £163,000 across 11. That is a wide spread for one small area, and it is the type of house rather than the location doing the sorting.
On direction, the published house price index for the area put the average at about £327,000 as of May 2026, up about 2% across twelve months. Flats went the other way over the same period, down about 2%. Both movements are small enough that anyone describing either as a market event is selling something.
Council tax settles mostly in band C, with about 22% of dwellings in bands A and B. A band D bill comes to roughly £2,570 a year, which is the figure most readers can hold against whatever lands on their own doormat.
Renting is only published at county scale, so treat it as the Wiltshire reading rather than the estate's own. Typical private rent across the Wiltshire area is about £1,060 a month, and that is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of what is advertised on a given Tuesday. By size, one-beds average about £730, two-beds about £950, three-beds about £1,190, and four-beds and larger about £1,710.
Against income, modelled household income for the area was about £69,700 gross, before tax, in the financial year to March 2023. Set beside a median sale of about £290,500, that puts Old Sarum in stretch territory rather than fantasy territory: comfortable enough for two earners, tight enough that a single buyer will be looking hard at the flats and the terraces and telling themselves the garden was always going to be a chore.
Measured by floor space, the median works out at about £3,285 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 90 square metres. That covers the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, which is about 98% of them. Price per square metre is the number that gets mentioned least on the viewing and matters most when two houses at the same asking price turn out to be different sizes.
The bedroom mix from the Census in 2021 explains the shape of all this: about 35% of homes have four bedrooms or more, 31% have three, 25% have two and 9% have one. Family-sized stock, built for families, priced for the households that can carry it.
Nobody moves to Old Sarum for a bargain, and nobody gets fleeced either. The money buys modern floor area rather than beams and a sympathetic surveyor, which is a swap plenty of buyers make gladly and a few work out at the second viewing.