Sway Road, Lymington house prices are built from 119 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 28 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £465,000. Across the 16 years from 2005 to 2021 the median moved +117.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +50.6%.
Median price paid
£465,000
Change in cash, 2005–2021
+117.2%
Change in real terms
+50.6%
Median per m²
£4,002
HM Land Registry119 sales8 with floor areaLatest sale 28 May 2026
Section 01
How Sway Road, Lymington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sway Road, Lymington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2021. 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 | £143,475 | £318,582 |
| 2000s | 4 | £345,500 | £629,399 |
| 2010s | 2 | £495,000 | £697,950 |
| 2020s | 2 | £545,000 | £556,848 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sway Road, Lymington is £1,075,000 in 2021; the lowest is £143,475 in 1997. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £143,475 to £1,075,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £304,210, so the real change over the whole record is +346.5% — about +6.43% 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: +117.2% in cash against +50.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Buckland Granaries | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 3 Buckland Granaries | 8 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £595,000 | £595,000 |
| 9 Buckland Granaries | 6 May 2025 | Terraced | £600,000 | £613,043 |
| Bedford | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| Olive Tree House | 15 Nov 2024 | Detached | £951,000 | £1,000,679 |
| Tucker Mill | 4 Mar 2024 | Detached | £973,000 | £1,023,828 |
| Greensleeves | 2 Dec 2022 | Detached | £699,950 | £810,953 |
| Woodside | 30 Sep 2022 | Detached | £780,000 | £903,698 |
| Tam-Lin | 20 Sep 2022 | Detached | £750,000 | £868,940 |
| The Paddocks | 24 Nov 2021 | Detached | £1,225,000 | £1,547,715 |
| 11 Buckland Granaries | 20 Oct 2021 | Detached | £870,000 | £1,099,194 |
| Twin Willows | 10 May 2021 | Detached | £1,075,000 | £1,358,199 |
| Rose Farm | 6 May 2021 | Detached | £1,350,000 | £1,705,645 |
| The Borders | 12 Feb 2021 | Detached | £750,000 | £947,581 |
| Holford | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £485,000 | £627,961 |
| 11 Buckland Granaries | 25 Nov 2020 | Detached | £805,000 | £1,042,287 |
| 12 Buckland Granaries | 9 Nov 2020 | Detached | £785,000 | £1,016,391 |
| 9 Buckland Granaries | 5 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £545,000 | £705,647 |
| 3 Buckland Granaries | 26 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £515,000 | £666,804 |
| 2 Buckland Granaries | 9 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £535,000 | £692,700 |
| 4 Buckland Granaries | 25 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £550,000 | £712,121 |
| 6 Buckland Granaries | 23 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £775,000 | £1,003,444 |
| 10 Buckland Granaries | 21 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £545,000 | £705,647 |
| 8 Buckland Granaries | 11 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £538,500 | £697,231 |
| 4 Buckland Manor New Cottages | 31 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £640,909 |
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 Sway Road, Lymington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road | £535,000 (2020) | £600,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -2.4% |
| 3 BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road | £515,000 (2020) | £595,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -1.9% |
| 9 BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road | £545,000 (2020) | £600,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -2.8% |
| TUCKER MILL Sway Road | £710,000 (2003) | £973,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.3% |
| TAM-LIN Sway Road | £380,000 (2013) | £750,000 (2022) | +7.8% | +5.1% |
| THE PADDOCKS Sway Road | £199,950 (1999) | £1,225,000 (2021) | +8.6% | +6.3% |
| 11 BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road | £805,000 (2020) | £870,000 (2021) | +8.1% | +5.5% |
| ROSE FARM Sway Road | £170,000 (1997) | £1,350,000 (2021) | +9.0% | +6.7% |
| HOLFORD Sway Road | £121,750 (1997) | £485,000 (2020) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 4 BUCKLAND MANOR NEW COTTAGES Sway Road | £395,000 (2014) | £495,000 (2020) | +3.8% | +2.1% |
| THE BOTHY Sway Road | £115,000 (1996) | £695,000 (2018) | +8.5% | +6.1% |
| MAGNOLIA LODGE Sway Road | £245,000 (2000) | £725,000 (2018) | +6.2% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sway Road, Lymington 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 | 101 | 84.9% | £460,000 | £60,000 – £1,662,500 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 7.6% | £425,000 | £97,000 – £775,000 |
| Terraced | 9 | 7.6% | £545,000 | £515,000 – £600,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sway Road, Lymington
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 119 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 | 119 | 100.0% | £465,000 |
| New build | 11 | 9.2% | £545,000 |
| Existing home | 108 | 90.8% | £460,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +18.5%. 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 10 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 Sway Road, Lymington
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across New Forest, 41.4% of 81,792 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 | 319 | 0.4% |
| B | 5,972 | 7.3% |
| C | 27,549 | 33.7% |
| D | 32,422 | 39.6% |
| E | 11,558 | 14.1% |
| F | 3,080 | 3.8% |
| G | 892 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in New Forest at £1,238 a month as of Jun 2026 — £860 for a one-bedroom home and £1,384 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £465,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.19% 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 SO41, 53 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 22 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.
Against the 175,785 residents the 2021 census counted in New Forest, that is 0.30 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 Sway Road, Lymington
The 2021 census counted 175,785 residents in New Forest across 77,567 households. 74.8% of those households own their home and 25.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a SO41 postcode: 10 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priestlands School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,205 |
| Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 382 |
| Milford-on-Sea Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 313 |
| Lymington Junior School | Primary | Community school | 250 |
| St Luke's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 191 |
| Lymington Church of England Infant School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 180 |
| Pennington Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 170 |
| South Baddesley Church of England Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 131 |
| Tiptoe Primary School | Primary | Community school | 123 |
| Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School – the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 104 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lymington Town Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Lymington Pier Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Lymington Pier Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 2.7 km |
| Sway Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
Section 09
How Sway Road, Lymington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sway Road, Lymington sits above that national figure — +195.2%.
Within Lymington the street ranks 123 of 581 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £265,000 (+75.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,002 per square metre, across 8 of the 119 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 £60,000 to £1,662,500. 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.
Sway Road, Lymington sits in New Forest, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in New Forest at 10.3 times median local earnings of £36,792 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
- Everton Road£250,000 median
- Southampton Road£257,000 median
- High Street£202,500 median
- Sea Road£190,000 median
- Keyhaven Road£210,000 median
- Milford Road£117,500 median
- Church Lane£300,000 median
- Samber Close£193,000 median
- Wainsford Road£274,500 median
- Middle Road£305,000 median
- Belmore Lane£250,000 median
- Camden Hurst£237,000 median
- New Street£142,500 median
- Gosport Street£177,750 median
- Spartina Drive£111,500 median
- Victoria Road£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE Sway Road5 sales
- THE PADDOCKS Sway Road4 sales
- ROSE FARM Sway Road4 sales
- MAGNOLIA LODGE Sway Road4 sales
- CORNER WAYS Sway Road4 sales
- THE WHEEL INN Sway Road4 sales
- TUCKER MILL Sway Road3 sales
- THE BOTHY Sway Road3 sales
- BURLEIGH Sway Road3 sales
- BOWLING CROFT Sway Road3 sales
- UPWOOD Sway Road3 sales
- INGLEWOOD Sway Road3 sales
- ROSEFIELD Sway Road3 sales
- ASHOVER Sway Road3 sales
- 2, BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road2 sales
- 3, BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road2 sales
- 9, BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road2 sales
- TAM-LIN Sway Road2 sales
- 11, BUCKLAND GRANARIES Sway Road2 sales
- HOLFORD Sway Road2 sales
- 4, BUCKLAND MANOR NEW COTTAGES Sway Road2 sales
- BUCKLAND STEAD Sway Road2 sales
- THE NUT HATCH Sway Road2 sales
- SOUTH VIEW Sway Road2 sales
Back to Lymington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sway Road, Lymington?
The median price paid in Sway Road, Lymington across every sale on the register is £465,000. 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 Sway Road, Lymington?
119 sales are on record for Sway Road, Lymington, the most recent completing on 28 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sway Road, Lymington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +117.2% between 2005 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +50.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sway Road, Lymington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,075,000, set in 2021. 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 Sway Road, Lymington?
£4,002 per square metre, from the 8 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 28 May 2026. 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, “Sway Road, Lymington 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.