Swaffham house prices

Swaffham house prices are built from 7,406 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +33.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.5%.

HM Land Registry7,406 sales1,441 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Swaffham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 Swaffham is £272,498 in 2023; the lowest is £49,500 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £52,500 to £260,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,575, so the real change over the whole record is +123.0% — about +2.62% 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: +33.3% in cash against -4.5% 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.

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 Swaffham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,950 certificates cover Swaffham, and their median floor area is 83 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

376 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7,030 freehold — 5.1% 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 £84,475 and the median freehold sale £163,000 — a gap of +93.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +47.3%. 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 333 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 Breckland, 43.6% of 70,247 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.9% 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 Breckland at £923 a month as of Jun 2026 — £661 for a one-bedroom home and £1,039 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £158,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.01% 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 PE37, 61 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 16 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times quieter.

Against the 141,476 residents the 2021 census counted in Breckland, that is 0.43 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 141,476 residents in Breckland across 60,358 households. 67.8% of those households own their home and 32.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

5 state and independent schools have a PE37 postcode: 4 primary, 1 secondary. 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. Swaffham sits above that national figure — +0.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,129 per square metre, across 1,441 of the 7,406 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 £9,600 to £1,025,000. 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.

Swaffham sits in Breckland, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Breckland at 7.9 times median local earnings of £33,621 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 in Swaffham

• Southlands196 sales
• London Street173 sales
• Heathlands163 sales
• Northwell Place138 sales
• Montagu Close121 sales
• Masons Drive114 sales
• Kendle Road112 sales
• Brackenwoods109 sales
• Elizabeth Drive108 sales
• Longfields108 sales
• Lynn Road108 sales
• Greenhoe Place96 sales
• Mill Farm Nurseries95 sales
• Chantry Lane93 sales
• Lee Warner Road92 sales
• Partridge Grove90 sales
• Merryweather Road85 sales
• Otter Road83 sales
• Oakleigh Drive77 sales
• The Oaklands76 sales
• Jubilee Way74 sales
• Lynn Street74 sales
• Hale Road72 sales
• Oaks Drive71 sales
• Ash Close70 sales
• Whitsands Road69 sales
• Greyling Way67 sales
• Nicholas Hamond Way66 sales
• Adastral Place65 sales
• Brancaster Way65 sales
• Coronation Grove65 sales
• Filby Road65 sales
• Hillside65 sales
• Lancaster Road65 sales
• Shepherds Fold60 sales
• Spinners Lane60 sales
• Houghton Lane59 sales
• Ketts Hill59 sales
• Mount Close58 sales
• Station Street58 sales
• Beech Close56 sales
• Tuns Road56 sales
• Couhe Close55 sales
• The Street55 sales
• Courtfields54 sales
• Mayfly Road54 sales
• St Guthlac Close54 sales
• Cley Road53 sales
• The Paddocks53 sales
• Tumbler Hill53 sales
• Watton Road49 sales
• Botwright Drive48 sales
• North Pickenham Road48 sales
• Sandringham Way48 sales
• St Andrews Way48 sales
• Forest Grove46 sales
• Theatre Street46 sales
• Mill Street45 sales
• Wyndfields45 sales
• Bishy Barny Bee Gardens43 sales

Postcode districts covering Swaffham

• PE37£158,000 median

What is the average house price in Swaffham?

The median price paid in Swaffham across every sale on the register is £158,000. 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 Swaffham?

7,406 sales are on record for Swaffham, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Swaffham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +33.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Swaffham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £272,498, set in 2023. 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 Swaffham?

£2,129 per square metre, from the 1,441 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 22 Jun 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, “Swaffham 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.