Forest Grove, Swaffham house prices are built from 46 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2014 and the most recent on 27 Sep 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £183,998. Across the 8 years from 2014 to 2022 the median moved +50.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.2%.
Median price paid
£183,998
Change in cash, 2014–2022
+50.0%
Change in real terms
+21.2%
Median per m²
£2,128
HM Land Registry46 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Sep 2024
Section 01
How Forest Grove, Swaffham prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Forest Grove, Swaffham to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £195,000 | £205,187 |
| 9 | 26 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 16 | 31 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £205,000 | £221,494 |
| 22 | 24 Oct 2022 | Detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 5 | 29 Jun 2022 | Detached | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| 8 | 23 May 2022 | Terraced | £262,500 | £304,129 |
| 10 | 14 Apr 2022 | Detached | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| 4 | 31 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £189,500 | £219,552 |
| 9 | 29 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £173,000 | £218,575 |
| 13 | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £173,300 | £218,954 |
| 1 | 23 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 3 | 19 Feb 2021 | Detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 11 | 2 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| 16 | 21 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £162,500 | £210,399 |
| 8 | 27 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £196,000 | £253,774 |
| 2 | 13 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £215,000 | £278,375 |
| 6 | 26 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £172,500 | £225,626 |
| 7 | 2 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £170,500 | £227,226 |
| 10 | 13 Jul 2018 | Detached | £205,000 | £273,204 |
| 24 | 15 Jun 2018 | Detached | £325,000 | £433,129 |
| 8 | 9 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £185,000 | £258,267 |
| 2 | 12 Sep 2016 | Terraced | £194,995 | £272,221 |
| 26 | 29 Apr 2016 | Detached | £199,000 | £277,812 |
| 9 | 30 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £135,000 | £190,350 |
| 1 | 22 Dec 2014 | Semi-detached | £169,995 | £243,838 |
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 Forest Grove, Swaffham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Forest Grove | £139,995 (2014) | £195,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.2% |
| 9 Forest Grove | £139,995 (2014) | £200,000 (2024) | +3.6% | +0.5% |
| 16 Forest Grove | £133,995 (2014) | £205,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +1.6% |
| 22 Forest Grove | £210,995 (2014) | £375,000 (2022) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 5 Forest Grove | £175,995 (2014) | £255,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 8 Forest Grove | £169,995 (2014) | £262,500 (2022) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 10 Forest Grove | £170,995 (2014) | £255,000 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 4 Forest Grove | £135,995 (2013) | £189,500 (2022) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 13 Forest Grove | £123,000 (2014) | £173,300 (2021) | +5.0% | +3.1% |
| 1 Forest Grove | £169,995 (2014) | £205,000 (2021) | +2.7% | +0.9% |
| 3 Forest Grove | £182,995 (2014) | £225,000 (2021) | +3.0% | +1.1% |
| 2 Forest Grove | £194,995 (2016) | £215,000 (2020) | +2.5% | +0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Grove, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 20 | 43.5% | £169,995 | £125,000 – £262,500 |
| Detached | 19 | 41.3% | £211,995 | £168,000 – £375,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 13.0% | £169,995 | £135,995 – £205,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 2.2% | £123,000 | £123,000 – £123,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Grove, Swaffham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 46 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 | 46 | 100.0% | £183,998 |
| New build | 23 | 50.0% | £169,995 |
| Existing home | 23 | 50.0% | £199,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -14.6%. 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 1 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 Forest Grove, 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 £183,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.02% 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 Forest Grove, 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 Forest Grove, Swaffham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Grove, Swaffham sits above that national figure — +16.8%.
Within Swaffham the street ranks 96 of 227 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+16.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,128 per square metre, across 11 of the 46 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 £123,000 to £375,000. 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.
Forest Grove, 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
- Brackenwoods£138,000 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 9 Forest Grove4 sales
- 8 Forest Grove4 sales
- 11 Forest Grove3 sales
- 16 Forest Grove3 sales
- 10 Forest Grove3 sales
- 22 Forest Grove2 sales
- 5 Forest Grove2 sales
- 4 Forest Grove2 sales
- 13 Forest Grove2 sales
- 1 Forest Grove2 sales
- 3 Forest Grove2 sales
- 2 Forest Grove2 sales
- 6 Forest Grove2 sales
- 7 Forest Grove2 sales
- 24 Forest Grove2 sales
- 26 Forest Grove2 sales
Back to Swaffham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Grove, Swaffham?
The median price paid in Forest Grove, Swaffham across every sale on the register is £183,998. 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 Forest Grove, Swaffham?
46 sales are on record for Forest Grove, Swaffham, the most recent completing on 27 Sep 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Grove, Swaffham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.0% between 2014 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Grove, Swaffham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £255,000, set in 2022. 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 Forest Grove, Swaffham?
£2,128 per square metre, from the 11 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 27 Sep 2024. 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, “Forest Grove, 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.