Swingate, Stevenage house prices

Swingate, Stevenage house prices are built from 228 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2016 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £162,000. Across the 9 years from 2016 to 2025 the median moved +34.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.6%.

HM Land Registry228 sales92 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Swingate, Stevenage house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2016 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Swingate, Stevenage is £210,000 in 2018; the lowest is £152,450 in 2016. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £152,450 to £205,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £212,826, so the real change over the whole record is -1.6% — about -0.18% 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: +34.5% in cash against -1.6% 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.

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.

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 Swingate, Stevenage values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swingate, Stevenage is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

228 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -14.0%. 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.

A further 38 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Hertfordshire, 49.3% of 67,462 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Hertfordshire at £1,424 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,016 for a one-bedroom home and £1,564 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £162,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.55% 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 SG1, 390 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 139 violent, 12 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 91 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.

Against the 133,210 residents the 2021 census counted in North Hertfordshire, that is 2.93 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.

The 2021 census counted 133,210 residents in North Hertfordshire across 56,733 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 34.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a SG1 postcode: 15 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swingate, Stevenage sits above that national figure — +2.9%.

Within Stevenage the street ranks 421 of 722 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £168,000 (-3.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,600 per square metre, across 92 of the 228 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 £96,950 to £255,000. 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.

Swingate, Stevenage sits in North Hertfordshire, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Hertfordshire at 10.0 times median local earnings of £42,555 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.

Streets nearby

• Prestatyn Close£63,750 median
• Ripon Road£134,500 median
• Canterbury Way£125,000 median
• Cleveland Way£224,950 median
• York Road£134,500 median
• Lonsdale Road£160,000 median
• Archer Road£140,000 median
• Wisden Road£140,250 median
• Jessop Road£147,500 median
• Fairfield Way£175,000 median
• Woolners Way£170,000 median
• Wansbeck Close£149,995 median
• Mendip Way£249,995 median
• Grace Way£150,000 median
• Great Ashby Way£218,000 median
• Serpentine Close£218,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 24, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate4 sales
• FLAT 70, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate3 sales
• FLAT 140, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate3 sales
• FLAT 88, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate3 sales
• FLAT 141, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate3 sales
• FLAT 116, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 114, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 75, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 14, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 143, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 73, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 2, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 113, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 35, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 124, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 93, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 148, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 86, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 90, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 142, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 36, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 56, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 125, SKYLINE HOUSE Swingate2 sales
• FLAT 23, BRICKDALE HOUSE Swingate2 sales

Back to Stevenage house prices.

What is the average house price in Swingate, Stevenage?

The median price paid in Swingate, Stevenage across every sale on the register is £162,000. 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 Swingate, Stevenage?

228 sales are on record for Swingate, Stevenage, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Swingate, Stevenage house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +34.5% between 2016 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Swingate, Stevenage house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £210,000, 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 Swingate, Stevenage?

£3,600 per square metre, from the 92 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 29 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, “Swingate, Stevenage 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.