Swallow Close, Grays house prices are built from 205 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 3 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,000. Across the 12 years from 2012 to 2024 the median moved +94.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +36.7%.
Median price paid
£143,000
Change in cash, 2012–2024
+94.0%
Change in real terms
+36.7%
HM Land Registry205 salesLatest sale 3 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Swallow Close, Grays prices moved
The chart tracks the median Swallow Close, Grays house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. 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 | 3 | £84,950 | £188,629 |
| 2000s | 8 | £153,123 | £278,944 |
| 2010s | 3 | £230,000 | £324,300 |
| 2020s | 1 | £355,000 | £362,717 |
The highest yearly median on record for Swallow Close, Grays is £355,000 in 2024; the lowest is £77,750 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £89,248 to £355,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £189,232, so the real change over the whole record is +97.4% — about +2.55% 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: +94.0% in cash against +36.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 3 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 40 | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £433,000 | £442,413 |
| 34 | 13 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 81 | 31 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £387,500 | £395,924 |
| 41 | 25 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 8 | 16 Oct 2024 | Detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 28 | 27 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £395,000 | £415,634 |
| 21 | 19 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 36 | 25 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 61 | 18 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £338,000 | £365,195 |
| 39 | 12 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 53 | 5 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £348,000 | £376,000 |
| 49 | 26 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £420,000 | £486,606 |
| 53 | 12 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £290,000 | £375,482 |
| 40 | 20 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £360,000 | £470,872 |
| 75 | 5 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £282,500 | £369,504 |
| 32 | 11 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £371,000 | £485,260 |
| 12 | 28 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £295,000 | £385,853 |
| 36 | 21 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 73 | 15 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| 13 | 14 Feb 2018 | Detached | £270,000 | £359,830 |
| 26 | 29 Sep 2017 | Terraced | £280,000 | £381,081 |
| 28 | 22 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £340,000 | £462,741 |
| 1 | 30 Aug 2016 | Detached | £387,000 | £540,267 |
| 83 | 22 Jul 2016 | Terraced | £263,000 | £367,158 |
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, Grays values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 Swallow Close | £97,000 (1998) | £420,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 40 Swallow Close | £77,750 (1998) | £433,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 34 Swallow Close | £88,500 (1998) | £410,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 81 Swallow Close | £93,250 (1998) | £387,500 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 41 Swallow Close | £75,950 (1998) | £350,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 8 Swallow Close | £98,995 (1997) | £450,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 28 Swallow Close | £83,950 (1997) | £395,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 21 Swallow Close | £75,950 (1998) | £340,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 36 Swallow Close | £73,388 (1998) | £355,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 61 Swallow Close | £72,500 (1998) | £338,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 39 Swallow Close | £75,950 (1998) | £335,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 53 Swallow Close | £75,950 (1998) | £348,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swallow Close, Grays 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 169 | 82.4% | £143,000 | £68,500 – £433,000 |
| Semi-detached | 20 | 9.8% | £111,000 | £71,500 – £410,000 |
| Detached | 16 | 7.8% | £165,000 | £68,950 – £450,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Swallow Close, Grays
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 205 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 205 | 100.0% | £143,000 |
| New build | 66 | 32.2% | £84,450 |
| Existing home | 139 | 67.8% | £181,995 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -53.6%. 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 5 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, Grays
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Thurrock, 47.3% of 74,813 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 398 | 0.5% |
| B | 8,240 | 11.0% |
| C | 26,726 | 35.7% |
| D | 29,523 | 39.5% |
| E | 8,121 | 10.9% |
| F | 1,426 | 1.9% |
| G | 379 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Thurrock at £1,372 a month as of Jun 2026 — £935 for a one-bedroom home and £1,464 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £143,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.51% 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 RM16, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 3 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 176,001 residents the 2021 census counted in Thurrock, that is 0.86 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, Grays
The 2021 census counted 176,001 residents in Thurrock across 66,377 households. 64.0% of those households own their home and 36.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a RM16 postcode: 11 primary, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harris Academy Chafford Hundred | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,435 |
| Harris Primary Academy Mayflower | Primary | Free schools | 1,087 |
| The Gateway Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,030 |
| William Edwards School | Secondary | Academy converter | 984 |
| Orsett Heath Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 699 |
| Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred | Primary | Academy converter | 679 |
| Woodside Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 662 |
| Tudor Court Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 653 |
| Stifford Clays Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 606 |
| The Gateway Primary Free School | Primary | Free schools | 459 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Grays Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Tilbury Town Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Chafford Hundred Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Ockendon Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How Swallow Close, Grays compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swallow Close, Grays sits below that national figure — -9.2%.
Within Grays the street ranks 450 of 608 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £160,000 (-10.6%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £68,500 to £450,000. 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, Grays sits in Thurrock, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Thurrock at 8.7 times median local earnings of £40,623 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
- Dudley Close£115,000 median
- Drake Road£163,250 median
- Francisco Close£165,000 median
- Sewell Close£153,500 median
- Southwell Close£155,500 median
- Long Lane£229,998 median
- Swiftsure Road£127,000 median
- Gilbert Road£155,000 median
- Grifon Road£159,995 median
- Plymouth Road£151,998 median
- Blackshots Lane£230,000 median
- Sachfield Drive£225,000 median
- Welling Road£153,500 median
- Fleming Road£152,500 median
- Hawkins Drive£147,500 median
- Cole Avenue£148,375 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 40 Swallow Close6 sales
- 21 Swallow Close6 sales
- 36 Swallow Close6 sales
- 39 Swallow Close6 sales
- 25 Swallow Close6 sales
- 41 Swallow Close5 sales
- 28 Swallow Close5 sales
- 53 Swallow Close5 sales
- 12 Swallow Close5 sales
- 23 Swallow Close5 sales
- 29 Swallow Close5 sales
- 18 Swallow Close5 sales
- 32 Swallow Close4 sales
- 16 Swallow Close4 sales
- 14 Swallow Close4 sales
- 10 Swallow Close4 sales
- 27 Swallow Close4 sales
- 77 Swallow Close4 sales
- 20 Swallow Close4 sales
- 7 Swallow Close4 sales
- 34 Swallow Close3 sales
- 81 Swallow Close3 sales
- 8 Swallow Close3 sales
- 61 Swallow Close3 sales
Back to Grays house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Swallow Close, Grays?
The median price paid in Swallow Close, Grays across every sale on the register is £143,000. 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 Swallow Close, Grays?
205 sales are on record for Swallow Close, Grays, the most recent completing on 3 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Swallow Close, Grays house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +94.0% between 2012 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +36.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Swallow Close, Grays house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £355,000, set in 2024. 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, Grays?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 3 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, Grays 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.