Swan Street, Halstead house prices are built from 250 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 10 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +101.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +47.8%.
Median price paid
£158,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+101.5%
Change in real terms
+47.8%
Median per m²
£2,250
HM Land Registry250 sales13 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Swan Street, Halstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Swan Street, Halstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £58,375 | £129,620 |
| 2000s | 9 | £158,000 | £287,829 |
| 2010s | 7 | £215,000 | £303,150 |
| 2020s | 4 | £305,000 | £311,630 |
The highest yearly median on record for Swan Street, Halstead is £415,000 in 2024; the lowest is £52,975 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £57,750 to £415,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £128,232, so the real change over the whole record is +240.5% — about +4.32% 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: +101.5% in cash against +47.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Place Aleys Barn | 10 Dec 2025 | Detached | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| 87 | 14 Nov 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 88 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £540,000 | £551,739 |
| 141a | 9 May 2025 | Detached | £362,500 | £370,380 |
| Oak Lodge Aleys Barn | 11 Dec 2024 | Detached | £442,500 | £465,616 |
| 1 the Warren | 6 Dec 2024 | Detached | £415,000 | £436,679 |
| 119 | 29 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| Sicomoro Bungalow | 28 Jun 2024 | Detached | £457,500 | £481,399 |
| 141 | 12 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 153 | 18 Dec 2023 | Detached | £440,000 | £475,402 |
| Claife Heights, 78 – 80 | 3 Nov 2023 | Detached | £460,000 | £497,011 |
| The Coach House | 29 Sep 2023 | Detached | £360,000 | £388,966 |
| 139a | 21 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| Flat 11 Cygnet Court | 16 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 52 | 11 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £280,000 | £324,404 |
| 87 | 24 Oct 2022 | Detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| Flat 6 Cygnet Court | 17 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| Flat 10 Cygnet Court | 9 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| Flat 9 Cygnet Court | 8 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £127,000 | £147,141 |
| 204 | 11 Feb 2022 | Detached | £410,000 | £475,021 |
| 49 | 21 Dec 2021 | Detached | £340,000 | £429,570 |
| 135a | 5 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 139a | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £315,000 | £397,984 |
| 85 | 29 Sep 2021 | Detached | £445,000 | £562,231 |
| 139 | 6 Sep 2021 | Detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
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 Swan Street, Halstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUTUMN PLACE ALEYS BARN Swan Street | £250,000 (2006) | £435,000 (2025) | +3.0% | 0.0% |
| 87 Swan Street | £210,000 (2022) | £350,000 (2025) | +18.6% | +13.7% |
| 141A Swan Street | £58,100 (1995) | £362,500 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| OAK LODGE ALEYS BARN Swan Street | £249,950 (2006) | £442,500 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 1 the WARREN Swan Street | £225,000 (2011) | £415,000 (2024) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
| 141 Swan Street | £235,500 (2008) | £345,000 (2024) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| CLAIFE HEIGHTS, 78 – 80 Swan Street | £57,500 (1995) | £460,000 (2023) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| THE COACH HOUSE Swan Street | £371,000 (2021) | £360,000 (2023) | -1.5% | -8.9% |
| 139A Swan Street | £78,000 (1997) | £310,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 11 CYGNET COURT Swan Street | £24,500 (1996) | £130,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 52 Swan Street | £99,950 (2003) | £280,000 (2022) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 49 Swan Street | £310,000 (2013) | £340,000 (2021) | +1.2% | -0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swan Street, Halstead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 95 | 38.0% | £245,000 | £30,000 – £1,100,000 |
| Semi-detached | 78 | 31.2% | £159,000 | £34,000 – £540,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 44 | 17.6% | £55,995 | £23,500 – £131,600 |
| Terraced | 33 | 13.2% | £204,000 | £56,500 – £345,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Swan Street, Halstead
44 of the sales on record are leasehold and 206 freehold — 17.6% 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 £57,498 and the median freehold sale £187,500 — a gap of +226.1%. 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 | 44 | 17.6% | £57,498 |
| Freehold | 206 | 82.4% | £187,500 |
| New build | 8 | 3.2% | £156,500 |
| Existing home | 242 | 96.8% | £158,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.3%. 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 12 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 Swan Street, Halstead
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Braintree, 48.3% of 69,960 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 274 | 0.4% |
| B | 10,725 | 15.3% |
| C | 22,773 | 32.6% |
| D | 23,376 | 33.4% |
| E | 9,378 | 13.4% |
| F | 2,780 | 4.0% |
| G | 654 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Braintree at £1,224 a month as of Jun 2026 — £858 for a one-bedroom home and £1,366 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £158,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.27% 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 CO9, 9 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 6 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 18.6 times quieter.
Against the 155,268 residents the 2021 census counted in Braintree, that is 0.06 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 Swan Street, Halstead
The 2021 census counted 155,268 residents in Braintree across 64,983 households. 68.6% of those households own their home and 31.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a CO9 postcode: 11 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedingham School and Sixth Form | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,177 |
| The Ramsey Academy, Halstead | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 702 |
| Richard de Clare Community Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 370 |
| St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Sible Hedingham | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 213 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Halstead | Primary | Academy converter | 211 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Halstead | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 210 |
| de Vere Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 203 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Great Yeldham | Primary | Academy converter | 139 |
| Gosfield Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 134 |
| St John the Baptist Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Pebmarsh | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 97 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bures Rail Station | Rail | 10.9 km |
| Braintree Rail Station | Rail | 11.0 km |
| Chappel & Wakes Colne Rail Station | Rail | 11.3 km |
| Sudbury (Suffolk) Rail Station | Rail | 11.4 km |
Section 09
How Swan Street, Halstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swan Street, Halstead sits above that national figure — +0.6%.
Within Halstead the street ranks 284 of 391 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £175,000 (-9.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,250 per square metre, across 13 of the 250 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 £23,500 to £1,100,000. 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.
Swan Street, Halstead sits in Braintree, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Braintree at 9.2 times median local earnings of £37,704 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
- Hawthorn Close£97,000 median
- Hedingham Road£163,750 median
- Kings Road£145,000 median
- Parsonage Street£145,000 median
- Colne Road£136,750 median
- Trinity Road£125,000 median
- Highfields£161,000 median
- New Street£117,500 median
- Nether Court£170,000 median
- Colchester Road£201,000 median
- Church Road£245,500 median
- Church Street£238,500 median
- Tidings Hill£145,000 median
- Mount Pleasant£133,875 median
- The Street£244,000 median
- Mill Bridge£72,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 11, CYGNET COURT Swan Street6 sales
- 52 Swan Street6 sales
- 79 Swan Street6 sales
- 141A Swan Street5 sales
- 139A Swan Street5 sales
- FLAT 1, CYGNET COURT Swan Street5 sales
- 3, BROOK HOUSE, 198 Swan Street4 sales
- FLAT 13, CYGNET COURT Swan Street4 sales
- FLAT 15, CYGNET COURT Swan Street4 sales
- 53 Swan Street4 sales
- 2, BROOK HOUSE, 198 Swan Street4 sales
- 94 Swan Street4 sales
- FLAT 5, CYGNET COURT Swan Street4 sales
- 186 Swan Street4 sales
- 93 Swan Street4 sales
- 83 Swan Street4 sales
- 139 Swan Street3 sales
- SEAGRAVE HOUSE, 89 Swan Street3 sales
- 40 Swan Street3 sales
- 170 Swan Street3 sales
- 9 Swan Street3 sales
- 91 Swan Street3 sales
- 55 Swan Street3 sales
- 73 Swan Street3 sales
Back to Halstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Swan Street, Halstead?
The median price paid in Swan Street, Halstead across every sale on the register is £158,500. 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 Swan Street, Halstead?
250 sales are on record for Swan Street, Halstead, the most recent completing on 10 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Swan Street, Halstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +101.5% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +47.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Swan Street, Halstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £415,000, 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 Swan Street, Halstead?
£2,250 per square metre, from the 13 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 10 Dec 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, “Swan Street, Halstead 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.