Alder Way, Swanley house prices are built from 91 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 23 Sep 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £167,500. Across the 9 years from 1998 to 2007 the median moved +176.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +131.4%.
Median price paid
£167,500
Change in cash, 1998–2007
+176.0%
Change in real terms
+131.4%
Median per m²
£2,217
HM Land Registry91 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Sep 2024
Section 01
How Alder Way, Swanley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Alder Way, Swanley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2007. 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 | 1 | £64,500 | £143,220 |
| 2000s | 4 | £159,000 | £289,651 |
The highest yearly median on record for Alder Way, Swanley is £178,000 in 2007; the lowest is £64,500 in 1998. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £64,500 to £178,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,743, so the real change over the whole record is +131.4% — about +9.77% 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: +176.0% in cash against +131.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 23 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £360,000 | £378,806 |
| 44 | 12 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 60 | 2 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £405,000 | £426,157 |
| 48 | 8 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £280,000 | £324,404 |
| 23 | 3 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 19 | 22 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 95 | 5 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £295,000 | £372,715 |
| 46 | 14 Aug 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £147,500 | £190,978 |
| 22 | 1 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £280,000 | £362,534 |
| 84 | 31 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £312,000 | £403,967 |
| 3 | 22 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £372,774 |
| 27 | 24 May 2019 | Terraced | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 55 | 22 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £281,000 | £367,542 |
| 45 | 7 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £408,301 |
| 88 | 15 May 2017 | Terraced | £300,000 | £408,301 |
| 71 | 9 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £275,000 | £374,276 |
| 90 | 15 Apr 2016 | Terraced | £263,000 | £367,158 |
| 79 | 29 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £240,000 | £335,050 |
| 44 | 25 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £269,700 | £376,512 |
| 40 | 29 Jan 2016 | Terraced | £272,000 | £379,723 |
| 88 | 17 Nov 2015 | Terraced | £252,500 | £356,025 |
| 32 | 11 Aug 2015 | Terraced | £221,000 | £311,610 |
| 19 | 27 Feb 2015 | Terraced | £217,500 | £306,675 |
| 27 | 21 Nov 2014 | Terraced | £215,000 | £308,393 |
| 34 | 27 Oct 2014 | Terraced | £190,000 | £272,533 |
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 Alder Way, Swanley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 Alder Way | £170,000 (2011) | £360,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +2.9% |
| 44 Alder Way | £77,000 (1999) | £345,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 60 Alder Way | £82,500 (2002) | £405,000 (2024) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 23 Alder Way | £62,000 (1999) | £320,000 (2021) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| 19 Alder Way | £159,000 (2004) | £325,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 46 Alder Way | £59,995 (1995) | £147,500 (2020) | +3.7% | +1.5% |
| 22 Alder Way | £59,000 (1998) | £280,000 (2020) | +7.3% | +5.1% |
| 84 Alder Way | £152,000 (2003) | £312,000 (2020) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 3 Alder Way | £185,000 (2007) | £285,000 (2019) | +3.7% | +1.2% |
| 27 Alder Way | £146,000 (2011) | £280,000 (2019) | +8.5% | +6.4% |
| 55 Alder Way | £154,995 (2003) | £281,000 (2019) | +3.8% | +1.4% |
| 45 Alder Way | £87,500 (2006) | £300,000 (2017) | +11.9% | +9.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Alder Way, Swanley 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 | 78 | 85.7% | £167,500 | £53,000 – £360,000 |
| Semi-detached | 11 | 12.1% | £169,995 | £63,500 – £405,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 2.2% | £90,000 | £90,000 – £147,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Alder Way, Swanley
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 89 freehold — 2.2% 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 £118,750 and the median freehold sale £168,500 — a gap of +41.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2 | 2.2% | £118,750 |
| Freehold | 89 | 97.8% | £168,500 |
Section 07
Living in Alder Way, Swanley
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bromley, 40.3% of 149,776 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 282 | 0.2% |
| B | 12,223 | 8.2% |
| C | 47,871 | 32.0% |
| D | 59,759 | 39.9% |
| E | 24,098 | 16.1% |
| F | 4,451 | 3.0% |
| G | 1,092 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bromley at £1,678 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,306 for a one-bedroom home and £1,982 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £167,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.02% 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 BR8, 152 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 7 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 329,992 residents the 2021 census counted in Bromley, that is 0.46 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 Alder Way, Swanley
The 2021 census counted 329,992 residents in Bromley across 135,828 households. 69.3% of those households own their home and 30.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a BR8 postcode: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hextable Primary School | Primary | Community school | 605 |
| Orchards Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 554 |
| St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School, Swanley | Primary | Academy converter | 318 |
| St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 279 |
| High Firs Primary School | Primary | Community school | 210 |
| Crockenhill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 203 |
| Horizon Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 195 |
| Downsview Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 140 |
| St Pauls' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 107 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Swanley Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Farningham Road Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Eynsford Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| St Mary Cray Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How Alder Way, Swanley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Alder Way, Swanley sits above that national figure — +6.3%.
Within Swanley the street ranks 171 of 223 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £206,000 (-18.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,217 per square metre, across 24 of the 91 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 £53,000 to £405,000. 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.
Alder Way, Swanley sits in Bromley, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bromley at 12.1 times median local earnings of £43,474 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
- Claremont Road£210,000 median
- Oakleigh Close£125,000 median
- Swanley Lane£181,500 median
- London Road£192,500 median
- Northview£164,800 median
- St Marys Road£200,000 median
- Glendale£229,950 median
- Pinks Hill£238,000 median
- Archer Way£230,000 median
- Lullingstone Avenue£155,500 median
- Waylands£240,000 median
- West View Road£213,000 median
- Sprucedale Close£89,500 median
- Goldsel Road£140,000 median
- The Oaks£85,000 median
- Cranleigh Drive£243,498 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 88 Alder Way5 sales
- 19 Alder Way5 sales
- 22 Alder Way5 sales
- 32 Alder Way5 sales
- 44 Alder Way4 sales
- 46 Alder Way3 sales
- 84 Alder Way3 sales
- 27 Alder Way3 sales
- 55 Alder Way3 sales
- 71 Alder Way3 sales
- 40 Alder Way3 sales
- 105 Alder Way3 sales
- 101 Alder Way3 sales
- 60 Alder Way2 sales
- 23 Alder Way2 sales
- 3 Alder Way2 sales
- 45 Alder Way2 sales
- 90 Alder Way2 sales
- 79 Alder Way2 sales
- 100 Alder Way2 sales
- 59 Alder Way2 sales
- 52 Alder Way2 sales
- 77 Alder Way2 sales
Back to Swanley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Alder Way, Swanley?
The median price paid in Alder Way, Swanley across every sale on the register is £167,500. 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 Alder Way, Swanley?
91 sales are on record for Alder Way, Swanley, the most recent completing on 23 Sep 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Alder Way, Swanley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +176.0% between 1998 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +131.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Alder Way, Swanley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £178,000, set in 2007. 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 Alder Way, Swanley?
£2,217 per square metre, from the 24 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 23 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, “Alder Way, Swanley 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.