Brackenwoods, Swaffham house prices are built from 109 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 29 Nov 2023. The median price paid across the whole record is £138,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +73.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +28.2%.
Median price paid
£138,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+73.0%
Change in real terms
+28.2%
HM Land Registry109 salesLatest sale 29 Nov 2023
Section 01
How Brackenwoods, Swaffham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Brackenwoods, Swaffham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2023. 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 | £52,000 | £115,465 |
| 2000s | 6 | £112,500 | £204,942 |
| 2010s | 1 | £159,000 | £224,190 |
| 2020s | 1 | £275,000 | £280,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for Brackenwoods, Swaffham is £275,000 in 2023; the lowest is £52,000 in 1997. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £52,000 to £275,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £110,256, so the real change over the whole record is +169.5% — about +3.89% 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: +73.0% in cash against +28.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 29 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 93 | 5 Sep 2023 | Detached | £330,000 | £356,552 |
| 41 | 13 Jun 2023 | Detached | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 86 | 23 May 2023 | Detached | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| 67 | 20 Apr 2023 | Detached | £184,000 | £198,805 |
| 2 | 23 Feb 2023 | Detached | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| 19 | 11 Jan 2023 | Detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 65 | 8 Nov 2021 | Detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 29 | 10 Feb 2021 | Detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 75 | 11 Jan 2021 | Detached | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 33 | 15 Oct 2020 | Detached | £183,000 | £236,942 |
| 10 | 13 Jul 2020 | Detached | £198,000 | £256,364 |
| 90 | 8 Jul 2019 | Detached | £171,000 | £223,664 |
| 14 | 19 Jun 2019 | Detached | £215,000 | £281,215 |
| 38 | 14 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £300,835 |
| 85 | 8 Jan 2019 | Detached | £246,000 | £321,763 |
| 82 | 27 Sep 2018 | Detached | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 91 | 2 May 2018 | Detached | £265,000 | £353,166 |
| 83 | 3 Apr 2018 | Detached | £229,152 | £305,392 |
| 9 | 16 Mar 2018 | Detached | £245,000 | £326,512 |
| 21 | 20 Nov 2017 | Detached | £231,000 | £314,392 |
| 73 | 20 Sep 2017 | Detached | £236,000 | £321,197 |
| 85 | 14 Jul 2017 | Detached | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 2 | 21 Apr 2017 | Detached | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 56 | 16 Dec 2016 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £237,327 |
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 Brackenwoods, Swaffham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 Brackenwoods | £98,000 (2003) | £275,000 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.4% |
| 93 Brackenwoods | £91,500 (2002) | £330,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.4% |
| 86 Brackenwoods | £45,000 (1997) | £225,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 2 Brackenwoods | £77,500 (2001) | £265,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 65 Brackenwoods | £54,225 (1999) | £225,000 (2021) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
| 14 Brackenwoods | £73,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2019) | +5.0% | +2.8% |
| 85 Brackenwoods | £48,000 (1997) | £246,000 (2019) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| 82 Brackenwoods | £73,000 (2001) | £230,000 (2018) | +7.0% | +4.6% |
| 91 Brackenwoods | £48,000 (1997) | £265,000 (2018) | +8.5% | +6.1% |
| 83 Brackenwoods | £115,000 (2004) | £229,152 (2018) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 9 Brackenwoods | £66,950 (1997) | £245,000 (2018) | +6.4% | +4.0% |
| 56 Brackenwoods | £43,750 (1995) | £170,000 (2016) | +6.7% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Brackenwoods, Swaffham 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 | 93 | 85.3% | £143,000 | £45,000 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 12.8% | £112,500 | £43,750 – £275,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.8% | £52,000 | £52,000 – £141,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Brackenwoods, Swaffham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 109 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 | 109 | 100.0% | £138,000 |
A further 2 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 Brackenwoods, Swaffham
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,221 | 1.7% |
| B | 9,472 | 13.5% |
| C | 19,939 | 28.4% |
| D | 24,152 | 34.4% |
| E | 11,327 | 16.1% |
| F | 3,356 | 4.8% |
| G | 780 | 1.1% |
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 £138,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.03% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Brackenwoods, Swaffham
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Nicholas Hamond Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 710 |
| Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 241 |
| Swaffham CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 215 |
| Necton VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 198 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Swaffham | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 61 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway) | Metro or underground | 17.2 km |
| Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway) | Metro or underground | 17.2 km |
| Brandon Rail Station | Rail | 21.4 km |
| Watlington Rail Station | Rail | 21.7 km |
Section 09
How Brackenwoods, Swaffham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Brackenwoods, Swaffham sits below that national figure — -12.4%.
Within Swaffham the street ranks 163 of 227 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £158,000 (-12.7%).
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 £43,750 to £350,000. 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.
Brackenwoods, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Southlands£155,500 median
- London Street£93,300 median
- Heathlands£112,000 median
- Northwell Place£89,975 median
- Montagu Close£103,500 median
- Masons Drive£146,500 median
- Kendle Road£204,750 median
- Elizabeth Drive£133,500 median
- Longfields£163,500 median
- Lynn Road£104,500 median
- Greenhoe Place£157,500 median
- Mill Farm Nurseries£152,000 median
- Chantry Lane£159,995 median
- Lee Warner Road£135,226 median
- Partridge Grove£91,250 median
- Merryweather Road£150,737 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2 Brackenwoods4 sales
- 92 Brackenwoods4 sales
- 81 Brackenwoods4 sales
- 64 Brackenwoods4 sales
- 57 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 93 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 86 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 85 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 82 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 91 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 87 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 36 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 20 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 8 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 37 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 78 Brackenwoods3 sales
- 65 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 14 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 83 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 9 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 56 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 88 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 59 Brackenwoods2 sales
- 32 Brackenwoods2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Brackenwoods, Swaffham?
The median price paid in Brackenwoods, Swaffham across every sale on the register is £138,000. 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 Brackenwoods, Swaffham?
109 sales are on record for Brackenwoods, Swaffham, the most recent completing on 29 Nov 2023. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Brackenwoods, Swaffham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +73.0% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +28.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Brackenwoods, Swaffham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £275,000, 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 Brackenwoods, Swaffham?
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 29 Nov 2023. 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, “Brackenwoods, 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.