Swallow Close, Buckingham house prices are built from 90 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £123,250. Across the 9 years from 1996 to 2005 the median moved +185.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +139.9%.
Median price paid
£123,250
Change in cash, 1996–2005
+185.7%
Change in real terms
+139.9%
Median per m²
£1,384
HM Land Registry90 sales16 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Swallow Close, Buckingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Swallow Close, Buckingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2005. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £50,750 | £112,689 |
| 2000s | 4 | £102,000 | £185,814 |
The highest yearly median on record for Swallow Close, Buckingham is £145,000 in 2005; the lowest is £50,750 in 1996. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £50,750 to £145,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £110,088, so the real change over the whole record is +139.9% — about +10.21% 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: +185.7% in cash against +139.9% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 5 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 10 | 26 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 20 | 18 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £262,000 | £275,687 |
| 21 | 26 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 11 | 13 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 34 | 14 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 21 | 19 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £221,000 | £286,143 |
| 6 | 19 May 2020 | Terraced | £272,000 | £352,176 |
| 17 | 27 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £368,850 |
| 5 | 21 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £260,000 | £340,074 |
| 32 | 7 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £228,000 | £303,856 |
| 19 | 29 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £298,000 | £397,146 |
| 4 | 26 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £295,000 | £393,147 |
| 2 | 26 Jan 2018 | Terraced | £352,000 | £469,112 |
| 16 | 14 Oct 2016 | Semi-detached | £257,000 | £358,782 |
| 17 | 22 Jul 2016 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £342,030 |
| 15 | 12 May 2016 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £335,050 |
| 36 | 30 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £272,228 |
| 26 | 26 Nov 2015 | Semi-detached | £237,000 | £334,170 |
| 21 | 1 Sep 2015 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £253,800 |
| 7 | 20 Jun 2014 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £272,533 |
| 31 | 6 Dec 2013 | Terraced | £160,000 | £233,299 |
| 11 | 27 Mar 2013 | Semi-detached | £178,000 | £259,545 |
| 14 | 27 Jul 2012 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £238,983 |
| 9 | 9 Jun 2011 | Semi-detached | £177,000 | £271,272 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Swallow Close, Buckingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Swallow Close | £298,000 (2018) | £370,000 (2025) | +3.1% | -0.7% |
| 10 Swallow Close | £74,500 (1998) | £340,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 20 Swallow Close | £82,500 (1999) | £262,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 21 Swallow Close | £83,500 (2001) | £275,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 11 Swallow Close | £47,500 (1996) | £335,000 (2023) | +7.5% | +4.8% |
| 34 Swallow Close | £47,000 (1996) | £225,000 (2021) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| 6 Swallow Close | £116,000 (2001) | £272,000 (2020) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 17 Swallow Close | £87,000 (2000) | £282,000 (2019) | +6.4% | +4.0% |
| 32 Swallow Close | £67,500 (2000) | £228,000 (2018) | +7.0% | +4.6% |
| 4 Swallow Close | £59,000 (1996) | £295,000 (2018) | +7.6% | +5.2% |
| 16 Swallow Close | £25,000 (1995) | £257,000 (2016) | +11.7% | +9.3% |
| 36 Swallow Close | £40,000 (1996) | £195,000 (2016) | +8.2% | +5.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swallow Close, Buckingham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 54 | 60.0% | £122,000 | £25,000 – £370,000 |
| Terraced | 32 | 35.6% | £116,000 | £24,500 – £352,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 4.4% | £123,500 | £70,000 – £164,995 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Swallow Close, Buckingham
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 85 freehold — 5.6% 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 £50,500 and the median freehold sale £127,000 — a gap of +151.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 5 | 5.6% | £50,500 |
| Freehold | 85 | 94.4% | £127,000 |
A further 3 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.
Section 07
Living in Swallow Close, Buckingham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £123,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.37% 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 MK18, 22 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 12 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 7.6 times quieter.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.04 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Swallow Close, Buckingham
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a MK18 postcode: 15 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Latin School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,326 |
| Buckingham School | Secondary | Community school | 1,110 |
| Sir Thomas Fremantle School | Secondary | Free schools | 681 |
| Bourton Meadow Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 571 |
| Winslow Church of England School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 383 |
| Buckingham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 354 |
| Lace Hill Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 218 |
| Steeple Claydon School and Pre-School | Primary | Community school | 217 |
| Roundwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 192 |
| George Grenville Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 186 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Central Rail Station | Rail | 14.7 km |
| Wolverton Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Bicester North Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Bicester Village Rail Station | Rail | 15.5 km |
Section 09
How Swallow Close, Buckingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swallow Close, Buckingham sits below that national figure — -21.7%.
Within Buckingham the street ranks 547 of 579 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £222,000 (-44.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,384 per square metre, across 16 of the 90 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 £24,500 to £370,000. 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.
Swallow Close, Buckingham sits in Buckinghamshire, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Main Street£280,000 median
- High Street£149,950 median
- Avenue Road£129,250 median
- West Street£160,000 median
- Buckingham Road£141,250 median
- Magpie Way£145,000 median
- Moorhen Way£211,498 median
- Burleigh Piece£145,000 median
- Moreton Road£220,000 median
- Embleton Way£250,000 median
- Cotswolds Way£330,000 median
- Fishers Field£193,750 median
- Station Road£180,000 median
- Church Street£241,250 median
- Aris Way£267,000 median
- Nelson Street£130,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 17 Swallow Close7 sales
- 21 Swallow Close6 sales
- 11 Swallow Close5 sales
- 4 Swallow Close5 sales
- 3 Swallow Close5 sales
- 10 Swallow Close4 sales
- 31 Swallow Close4 sales
- 9 Swallow Close4 sales
- 29 Swallow Close4 sales
- 34 Swallow Close3 sales
- 6 Swallow Close3 sales
- 32 Swallow Close3 sales
- 16 Swallow Close3 sales
- 36 Swallow Close3 sales
- 30 Swallow Close3 sales
- 23 Swallow Close3 sales
- 38 Swallow Close3 sales
- 19 Swallow Close2 sales
- 20 Swallow Close2 sales
- 14 Swallow Close2 sales
- 27 Swallow Close2 sales
- 25 Swallow Close2 sales
- 8 Swallow Close2 sales
- 1 Swallow Close2 sales
Back to Buckingham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Swallow Close, Buckingham?
The median price paid in Swallow Close, Buckingham across every sale on the register is £123,250. 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 Swallow Close, Buckingham?
90 sales are on record for Swallow Close, Buckingham, the most recent completing on 5 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Swallow Close, Buckingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +185.7% between 1996 and 2005. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +139.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Swallow Close, Buckingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £145,000, set in 2005. 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 Swallow Close, Buckingham?
£1,384 per square metre, from the 16 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 5 Nov 2025. 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, “Swallow Close, Buckingham 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.