Waylands, Swanley house prices

Waylands, Swanley house prices are built from 121 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 16 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £240,000. Across the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 the median moved +72.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +34.9%.

HM Land Registry121 sales35 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Waylands, Swanley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2016. 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 Waylands, Swanley is £405,000 in 2016; the lowest is £112,000 in 1997. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £112,000 to £405,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £237,474, so the real change over the whole record is +138.1% — about +4.67% 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: +72.0% in cash against +34.9% 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 Waylands, Swanley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Waylands, Swanley 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 121 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.

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.

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 £240,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.39% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Waylands, Swanley sits above that national figure — +52.4%.

Within Swanley the street ranks 85 of 223 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £206,000 (+16.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,843 per square metre, across 35 of the 121 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 £74,000 to £660,000. 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.

Waylands, 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.

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
• 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
• Plantation Road£184,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 6 Waylands4 sales
• 83 Waylands4 sales
• 10 Waylands4 sales
• 59 Waylands4 sales
• 24 Waylands3 sales
• 64 Waylands3 sales
• 39 Waylands3 sales
• 93 Waylands3 sales
• 81 Waylands3 sales
• 65 Waylands3 sales
• 28 Waylands3 sales
• 57 Waylands3 sales
• 12 Waylands3 sales
• 71 Waylands3 sales
• 21 Waylands2 sales
• 79 Waylands2 sales
• 97 Waylands2 sales
• 72 Waylands2 sales
• 62 Waylands2 sales
• 9 Waylands2 sales
• 46 Waylands2 sales
• 95 Waylands2 sales
• 22 Waylands2 sales
• 1 Waylands2 sales

Back to Swanley house prices.

What is the average house price in Waylands, Swanley?

The median price paid in Waylands, Swanley across every sale on the register is £240,000. 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 Waylands, Swanley?

121 sales are on record for Waylands, Swanley, 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 Waylands, Swanley house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +72.0% between 2006 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +34.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Waylands, Swanley house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £405,000, set in 2016. 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 Waylands, Swanley?

£2,843 per square metre, from the 35 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, “Waylands, 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.