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If you are a Melksham homeowner thinking about moving home, there appears to be some new information between what Melksham home sellers want and what buyers are actually willing to pay.   In 2026 so far, the average asking price of the homes coming onto the market in Melksham has been £354,600, yet the average price of a Melksham home that sold and completed has been £321,700. That’s a 10.2% difference.     So is this a glitch in the 2026 Melksham property…

When people talk about the property market in Melksham, the conversation normally centres on house prices. Yet price is only part of the story. The size of a home matters too. A £300,000 home in one part of the country may offer significantly more space…

Every few weeks, another headline appears warning that house prices are about to crash. The reason changes each time. One month it is mortgage rates. The next it is inflation. More recently, geopolitical tensions and uncertainty in the Middle East have…

As an agent in the Melksham property market, I believe it is important to offer local homeowners a balanced and realistic view of both the Melksham and national property markets. Far too often in the last few years, national newspaper and social media headlines have focused on doom and gloom, creating the impression that the housing market…

The Melksham property market can often feel far more active than it really is.  Every week, new for sale boards appear outside people’s homes on your street. You tell yourself, ‘They have only been in that house for a few years’, so of course, you go on…

For some homebuyers, the kitchen is the deal maker. For others, it is the number of bedrooms, the school catchment or the distance to the railway station. Yet for a sizeable group of buyers, the garden matters just as much as the…

There is a quiet unspoken problem sitting inside the Melksham property market.   In the last two years, only 64.78% of the homes that came on the market have ended up selling.   Meanwhile, the remaining 35.22% of Melksham homes, they didn’t sell. They simply sat, drifted, reduced, and eventually disappeared from the market unsold. That gap is not…

When Britain voted to leave the European Union on 23rd June 2016, many predicted the UK housing market was heading for trouble.  Then Chancellor, George Osborne, warned house prices could fall by as much as 18%. Economists talked about collapsing confidence, falling…

For much of the last two decades, bungalows have quietly slipped out of fashion. Overshadowed by those glossy new build developments, three storey townhouses and open plan ‘modern living’, they became seen by many as somewhere only your granny lives rather than an aspirational home move. Yet while much of the property…

Since the mid 2000s, Britain has been told the same bad news housing stories. Young people have been locked out of homeownership. Deposits are impossible to save. Mortgage rules are too strict. And ‘Generation Rent’ is now permanent. According to the narrative by the newspapers,…