Oaks Drive, Swaffham house prices are built from 71 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2014 and the most recent on 9 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £179,250.
Median price paid
£179,250
Median per m²
£2,259
HM Land Registry71 sales6 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Oaks Drive, Swaffham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Oaks Drive, Swaffham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2014 to 2017. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 3 | £180,000 | £253,800 |
The highest yearly median on record for Oaks Drive, Swaffham is £250,000 in 2017; the lowest is £170,500 in 2016. Across the full 4-year record the cash median has moved from £180,000 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £258,189, so the real change over the whole record is +31.8% — about +9.64% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 9 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £495,000 | £505,761 |
| 10 | 3 Jan 2025 | Detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 28 | 25 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 7 | 29 Aug 2024 | Detached | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 14 | 25 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 3 | 6 Dec 2022 | Detached | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| 9 | 17 Mar 2022 | Detached | £444,000 | £514,412 |
| 2 | 22 Oct 2021 | Detached | £405,000 | £511,694 |
| 32 | 9 Jul 2021 | Detached | £302,000 | £381,559 |
| 7 | 12 Mar 2021 | Detached | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 4 | 16 Nov 2020 | Detached | £251,500 | £325,634 |
| 2 | 3 Sep 2019 | Detached | £375,000 | £490,492 |
| 13 | 19 Feb 2019 | Detached | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 8 | 2 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £387,500 | £516,422 |
| 16 | 8 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £227,000 | £302,524 |
| 27 | 15 Dec 2017 | Detached | £270,000 | £367,471 |
| 34 | 2 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £258,591 |
| 2 | 15 Aug 2017 | Detached | £337,000 | £458,658 |
| 12 | 28 Apr 2017 | Detached | £214,000 | £291,255 |
| 24 | 3 Mar 2017 | Detached | £250,000 | £340,251 |
| 23 | 5 Dec 2016 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £237,327 |
| 30 | 12 Aug 2016 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £237,327 |
| 34 | 18 Jul 2016 | Semi-detached | £171,000 | £238,723 |
| 32 | 30 Jun 2016 | Detached | £240,000 | £335,050 |
| 20 | 27 Apr 2016 | Detached | £172,000 | £240,119 |
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 Oaks Drive, Swaffham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Oaks Drive | £120,000 (2005) | £495,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.3% |
| 10 Oaks Drive | £35,000 (1996) | £205,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 28 Oaks Drive | £170,000 (2016) | £235,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +0.5% |
| 7 Oaks Drive | £43,250 (1997) | £355,000 (2024) | +8.1% | +5.3% |
| 14 Oaks Drive | £155,000 (2014) | £250,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +1.7% |
| 3 Oaks Drive | £145,000 (2003) | £400,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 9 Oaks Drive | £43,000 (1996) | £444,000 (2022) | +9.4% | +6.8% |
| 2 Oaks Drive | £191,250 (2005) | £405,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.4% |
| 32 Oaks Drive | £240,000 (2016) | £302,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.6% |
| 4 Oaks Drive | £61,000 (2000) | £251,500 (2020) | +7.3% | +5.0% |
| 16 Oaks Drive | £173,000 (2014) | £227,000 (2018) | +7.0% | +5.1% |
| 34 Oaks Drive | £171,000 (2016) | £190,000 (2017) | +11.1% | +8.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Oaks Drive, 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 | 55 | 77.5% | £180,000 | £35,000 – £444,000 |
| Semi-detached | 13 | 18.3% | £170,000 | £120,000 – £250,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 4.2% | £387,500 | £312,000 – £495,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Oaks Drive, Swaffham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 71 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 | 71 | 100.0% | £179,250 |
| New build | 15 | 21.1% | £180,000 |
| Existing home | 56 | 78.9% | £175,625 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +2.5%. 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 4 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 Oaks Drive, 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 £179,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.18% 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 Oaks Drive, 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 Oaks Drive, Swaffham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Oaks Drive, Swaffham sits above that national figure — +13.8%.
Within Swaffham the street ranks 102 of 227 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £158,000 (+13.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,259 per square metre, across 6 of the 71 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 £35,000 to £495,000. 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.
Oaks Drive, 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
- 7 Oaks Drive6 sales
- 3 Oaks Drive5 sales
- 2 Oaks Drive5 sales
- 1 Oaks Drive5 sales
- 8 Oaks Drive4 sales
- 10 Oaks Drive3 sales
- 4 Oaks Drive3 sales
- REPTON HOUSE, 11 Oaks Drive3 sales
- 28 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 14 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 9 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 32 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 16 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 34 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 12 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 24 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 20 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 6 Oaks Drive2 sales
- 11 Oaks Drive2 sales
Back to Swaffham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Oaks Drive, Swaffham?
The median price paid in Oaks Drive, Swaffham across every sale on the register is £179,250. 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 Oaks Drive, Swaffham?
71 sales are on record for Oaks Drive, Swaffham, the most recent completing on 9 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Oaks Drive, Swaffham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2017. 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 Oaks Drive, Swaffham?
£2,259 per square metre, from the 6 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 9 Sep 2025. 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, “Oaks Drive, 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.