Southlands, Swaffham house prices

Southlands, Swaffham house prices are built from 196 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +42.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.5%.

HM Land Registry196 sales51 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Southlands, Swaffham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 Southlands, Swaffham is £260,000 in 2022; the lowest is £49,650 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £49,650 to £250,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £110,246, so the real change over the whole record is +131.7% — about +2.84% 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: +42.9% in cash against +3.5% 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 Southlands, 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. Southlands, Swaffham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 196 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -57.1%. 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.

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 £155,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.12% 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. Southlands, Swaffham sits below that national figure — -1.3%.

Within Swaffham the street ranks 138 of 227 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £158,000 (-1.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,000 per square metre, across 51 of the 196 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 £41,100 to £380,000. 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.

Southlands, 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 nearby

• 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
• Merryweather Road£150,737 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 138 Southlands4 sales
• 131 Southlands4 sales
• 122 Southlands4 sales
• 64 Southlands4 sales
• 133 Southlands4 sales
• 47 Southlands3 sales
• 20 Southlands3 sales
• 113 Southlands3 sales
• 4 Southlands3 sales
• 109 Southlands3 sales
• 65 Southlands3 sales
• 137 Southlands3 sales
• 94 Southlands3 sales
• 27 Southlands3 sales
• 54A Southlands3 sales
• 135 Southlands3 sales
• 120 Southlands3 sales
• 82 Southlands3 sales
• 70 Southlands3 sales
• 116 Southlands3 sales
• 105 Southlands3 sales
• 33 Southlands3 sales
• 134 Southlands3 sales
• 61 Southlands3 sales

Back to Swaffham house prices.

What is the average house price in Southlands, Swaffham?

The median price paid in Southlands, Swaffham across every sale on the register is £155,500. 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 Southlands, Swaffham?

196 sales are on record for Southlands, Swaffham, the most recent completing on 16 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Southlands, Swaffham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Southlands, Swaffham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £260,000, 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 Southlands, Swaffham?

£2,000 per square metre, from the 51 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 16 Jan 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, “Southlands, 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.