John Swains Way, Spalding house prices are built from 134 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 5 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £144,250. Across the 12 years from 2006 to 2018 the median moved +38.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.5%.
Median price paid
£144,250
Change in cash, 2006–2018
+38.3%
Change in real terms
+3.5%
HM Land Registry134 salesLatest sale 5 May 2026
Section 01
How John Swains Way, Spalding prices moved
The chart tracks the median John Swains Way, Spalding house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2018. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £146,225 | £266,379 |
| 2010s | 3 | £176,500 | £248,865 |
The highest yearly median on record for John Swains Way, Spalding is £215,000 in 2018; the lowest is £103,950 in 2002. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £103,950 to £215,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £200,505, so the real change over the whole record is +42.9% — about +2.26% 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: +38.3% in cash against +3.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 5 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £233,000 | £233,000 |
| 26 | 28 Nov 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 55 | 18 Nov 2024 | Detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 39 | 3 Apr 2024 | Detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 34 | 9 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £220,500 | £238,241 |
| 22 | 18 Sep 2023 | Detached | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| 71 | 25 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £228,500 | £246,885 |
| 53 | 1 Jul 2022 | Detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 7 | 24 Mar 2022 | Detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 34 | 31 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 4 | 15 Apr 2021 | Detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 6 | 29 Mar 2021 | Detached | £248,000 | £313,333 |
| 7 | 5 Mar 2021 | Detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 8 | 22 Dec 2020 | Detached | £193,000 | £249,890 |
| 41 | 20 Feb 2020 | Detached | £256,500 | £332,107 |
| 67 | 20 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £192,500 | £249,242 |
| 32 | 6 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £241,976 |
| 27 | 29 Nov 2018 | Detached | £244,000 | £325,180 |
| 36 | 29 Oct 2018 | Detached | £210,000 | £279,868 |
| 16 | 17 Oct 2018 | Detached | £190,000 | £253,214 |
| 9 | 4 Oct 2018 | Detached | £245,000 | £326,512 |
| 32 | 14 Sep 2018 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £219,896 |
| 25 | 26 Jul 2018 | Detached | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 33 | 26 Mar 2018 | Detached | £215,000 | £286,531 |
| 39 | 7 Dec 2017 | Detached | £192,500 | £261,993 |
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 John Swains Way, Spalding values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 John Swains Way | £82,950 (2002) | £233,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 26 John Swains Way | £113,000 (2002) | £250,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 55 John Swains Way | £123,950 (2002) | £280,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
| 39 John Swains Way | £103,000 (2002) | £270,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 22 John Swains Way | £96,950 (2002) | £240,000 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 71 John Swains Way | £82,950 (2002) | £228,500 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 53 John Swains Way | £115,950 (2002) | £260,000 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| 7 John Swains Way | £99,950 (2002) | £260,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.3% |
| 4 John Swains Way | £96,950 (2002) | £210,000 (2021) | +4.2% | +1.9% |
| 6 John Swains Way | £115,950 (2002) | £248,000 (2021) | +4.1% | +1.8% |
| 8 John Swains Way | £103,950 (2002) | £193,000 (2020) | +3.5% | +1.2% |
| 41 John Swains Way | £115,950 (2002) | £256,500 (2020) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. John Swains Way, Spalding 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 | 109 | 81.3% | £148,950 | £76,950 – £280,000 |
| Semi-detached | 25 | 18.7% | £135,000 | £76,950 – £233,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in John Swains Way, Spalding
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 134 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 | 134 | 100.0% | £144,250 |
| New build | 59 | 44.0% | £103,950 |
| Existing home | 75 | 56.0% | £182,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -43.0%. 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.
Section 07
Living in John Swains Way, Spalding
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Boston, 42.3% of 38,000 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 291 | 0.8% |
| B | 4,905 | 12.9% |
| C | 10,859 | 28.6% |
| D | 12,955 | 34.1% |
| E | 6,217 | 16.4% |
| F | 2,120 | 5.6% |
| G | 653 | 1.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Boston at £800 a month as of Jun 2026 — £600 for a one-bedroom home and £916 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £144,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.66% 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.
No street-level crime was published for PE12 in Jun 2026. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around John Swains Way, Spalding
The 2021 census counted 70,502 residents in Boston across 29,404 households. 60.1% of those households own their home and 39.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
21 state and independent schools have a PE12 postcode: 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Academy Holbeach | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,378 |
| University Academy Long Sutton | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 708 |
| Long Sutton County Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 420 |
| Holbeach Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 309 |
| The Holbeach William Stukeley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 309 |
| The John Harrox Primary School, Moulton | Primary | Community school | 268 |
| Sutton Bridge Westmere Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 204 |
| Whaplode Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 186 |
| Fleet Wood Lane School | Primary | Community school | 163 |
| Sutton St James Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 140 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Spalding Rail Station | Rail | 12.2 km |
| Boston Rail Station | Rail | 21.7 km |
| Hubberts Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 23.0 km |
| Swineshead Rail Station | Rail | 25.0 km |
Section 09
How John Swains Way, Spalding compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. John Swains Way, Spalding sits below that national figure — -8.4%.
Within Spalding the street ranks 639 of 1296 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £132,950 (+8.5%).
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 £76,950 to £280,000. 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.
John Swains Way, Spalding sits in Boston, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Boston at 6.8 times median local earnings of £30,129 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
- Broadgate£165,000 median
- Station Road£156,000 median
- London Road£118,000 median
- Bridge Road£121,500 median
- Little London£110,000 median
- High Road£158,500 median
- Mill Lane£140,000 median
- New Road£144,000 median
- Jubilee Close£121,000 median
- Lowgate£127,000 median
- Langwith Gardens£138,500 median
- Wignals Gate£117,000 median
- Hallgate£98,000 median
- Woodlands£137,000 median
- Fleet Road£175,500 median
- Washway Road£135,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 John Swains Way5 sales
- 34 John Swains Way4 sales
- 26 John Swains Way4 sales
- 39 John Swains Way4 sales
- 71 John Swains Way4 sales
- 41 John Swains Way4 sales
- 36 John Swains Way4 sales
- 23 John Swains Way4 sales
- 18 John Swains Way4 sales
- 45 John Swains Way4 sales
- 55 John Swains Way3 sales
- 22 John Swains Way3 sales
- 4 John Swains Way3 sales
- 6 John Swains Way3 sales
- 67 John Swains Way3 sales
- 32 John Swains Way3 sales
- 16 John Swains Way3 sales
- 25 John Swains Way3 sales
- 73 John Swains Way3 sales
- 14 John Swains Way3 sales
- 30 John Swains Way3 sales
- 65 John Swains Way3 sales
- 53 John Swains Way2 sales
- 8 John Swains Way2 sales
Back to Spalding house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in John Swains Way, Spalding?
The median price paid in John Swains Way, Spalding across every sale on the register is £144,250. 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 John Swains Way, Spalding?
134 sales are on record for John Swains Way, Spalding, the most recent completing on 5 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have John Swains Way, Spalding house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +38.3% between 2006 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were John Swains Way, Spalding house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £215,000, set in 2018. 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 John Swains Way, Spalding?
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 5 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, “John Swains Way, Spalding 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.