Swanstead, Basildon house prices

Swanstead, Basildon house prices are built from 182 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 13 years from 2009 to 2022 the median moved +135.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +66.2%.

HM Land Registry182 sales63 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2024

The chart tracks the median Swanstead, Basildon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Swanstead, Basildon is £247,500 in 2022; the lowest is £27,750 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £28,995 to £247,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £64,383, so the real change over the whole record is +345.4% — about +5.69% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +135.7% in cash against +66.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Swanstead, Basildon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swanstead, Basildon is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 173 freehold — 4.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £70,000 and the median freehold sale £102,000 — a gap of +45.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +20.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 27 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Basildon, 48.8% of 79,564 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Basildon at £1,416 a month as of Jun 2026 — £977 for a one-bedroom home and £1,498 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £100,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.99% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SS16, 310 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 115 violent, 5 burglary, 16 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.

Against the 187,571 residents the 2021 census counted in Basildon, that is 1.65 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 187,571 residents in Basildon across 76,363 households. 64.4% of those households own their home and 35.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

10 state and independent schools have a SS16 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swanstead, Basildon sits below that national figure — -36.5%.

Within Basildon the street ranks 963 of 1057 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £148,500 (-32.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,180 per square metre, across 63 of the 182 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £17,000 to £295,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Swanstead, Basildon sits in Basildon, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Basildon at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,539 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Chestnut Road£62,750 median
• Cherrydown East£162,500 median
• Waterville Drive£72,000 median
• Forest Glade£150,000 median
• Northampton Grove£120,750 median
• Great Gregorie£157,000 median
• Clay Hill Road£135,000 median
• The Knares£137,250 median
• Courtney Park Road£120,000 median
• Witchards£147,500 median
• Waldegrave£158,000 median
• Downs Grove£130,498 median
• Rantree Fold£158,000 median
• The Glen£76,498 median
• Ardleigh£159,995 median
• Derby Close£131,750 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 116 Swanstead5 sales
• 166 Swanstead5 sales
• 26 Swanstead4 sales
• 141 Swanstead4 sales
• 160 Swanstead4 sales
• 17 Swanstead4 sales
• 76 Swanstead4 sales
• 23 Swanstead4 sales
• 57 Swanstead4 sales
• 32 Swanstead4 sales
• 88 Swanstead4 sales
• 157 Swanstead3 sales
• 147 Swanstead3 sales
• 38 Swanstead3 sales
• 100 Swanstead3 sales
• 103 Swanstead3 sales
• 110 Swanstead3 sales
• 54 Swanstead3 sales
• 39 Swanstead3 sales
• 59 Swanstead3 sales
• 85 Swanstead3 sales
• 56 Swanstead3 sales
• 102 Swanstead3 sales
• 51 Swanstead2 sales

Back to Basildon house prices.

What is the average house price in Swanstead, Basildon?

The median price paid in Swanstead, Basildon across every sale on the register is £100,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Swanstead, Basildon?

182 sales are on record for Swanstead, Basildon, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Swanstead, Basildon house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +135.7% between 2009 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +66.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Swanstead, Basildon house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £247,500, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Swanstead, Basildon?

£1,180 per square metre, from the 63 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2024. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Swanstead, Basildon house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.