Swallow Way, Wokingham house prices are built from 117 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 27 Jun 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,000. Across the 10 years from 2004 to 2014 the median moved +78.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +38.1%.
Median price paid
£158,000
Change in cash, 2004–2014
+78.6%
Change in real terms
+38.1%
Median per m²
£3,354
HM Land Registry117 sales21 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Jun 2024
Section 01
How Swallow Way, Wokingham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Swallow Way, Wokingham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2014. 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 | 4 | £75,000 | £166,535 |
| 2000s | 7 | £170,725 | £311,011 |
| 2010s | 1 | £305,000 | £430,050 |
The highest yearly median on record for Swallow Way, Wokingham is £305,000 in 2014; the lowest is £68,500 in 1998. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £93,000 to £305,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £201,738, so the real change over the whole record is +116.9% — about +4.39% 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: +78.6% in cash against +38.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 27 Jun 2024 | Detached | £560,000 | £589,254 |
| 2 | 11 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £518,621 |
| 43 | 1 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 39 | 17 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £329,511 | £381,767 |
| 47 | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 4 | 28 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £515,571 |
| 37 | 3 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 36 | 29 Jun 2021 | Detached | £575,000 | £726,478 |
| 33 | 23 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £260,000 | £336,639 |
| 16 | 15 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £261,500 | £338,581 |
| 18 | 24 Mar 2020 | Detached | £502,000 | £649,972 |
| 39 | 14 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £285,000 | £379,820 |
| 14 | 8 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £290,000 | £386,484 |
| 48 | 6 Sep 2016 | Detached | £500,000 | £698,020 |
| 45 | 15 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £250,000 | £349,010 |
| 9 | 12 May 2016 | Terraced | £270,000 | £376,931 |
| 42 | 12 Aug 2015 | Detached | £400,000 | £564,000 |
| 46 | 22 Dec 2014 | Semi-detached | £416,500 | £597,421 |
| 32 | 4 Dec 2014 | Detached | £410,000 | £588,098 |
| 4 | 30 May 2014 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £437,487 |
| 16 | 28 Feb 2014 | Terraced | £184,950 | £265,289 |
| 17 | 24 Jan 2014 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £294,049 |
| 41 | 17 Dec 2013 | Terraced | £222,000 | £323,702 |
| 2 | 30 Nov 2012 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £365,943 |
| 39 | 11 Nov 2011 | Terraced | £190,000 | £291,196 |
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 Swallow Way, Wokingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Swallow Way | £145,000 (1997) | £560,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 2 Swallow Way | £151,500 (2001) | £480,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 43 Swallow Way | £87,500 (1998) | £340,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.3% |
| 39 Swallow Way | £60,000 (1995) | £329,511 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 47 Swallow Way | £74,000 (1997) | £350,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 4 Swallow Way | £114,000 (1999) | £445,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.5% |
| 37 Swallow Way | £57,500 (1995) | £300,000 (2021) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
| 36 Swallow Way | £314,950 (2004) | £575,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| 33 Swallow Way | £142,000 (2004) | £260,000 (2020) | +3.9% | +1.5% |
| 16 Swallow Way | £72,000 (1998) | £261,500 (2020) | +6.0% | +3.8% |
| 18 Swallow Way | £336,000 (2004) | £502,000 (2020) | +2.5% | +0.3% |
| 14 Swallow Way | £59,750 (1995) | £290,000 (2018) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Swallow Way, Wokingham 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 | 60 | 51.3% | £136,000 | £11,500 – £350,000 |
| Detached | 29 | 24.8% | £249,950 | £80,000 – £575,000 |
| Semi-detached | 27 | 23.1% | £155,550 | £63,100 – £480,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.9% | £135,000 | £135,000 – £135,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Swallow Way, Wokingham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 117 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 | 117 | 100.0% | £158,000 |
Section 07
Living in Swallow Way, Wokingham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Wokingham, 51.9% of 73,851 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 447 | 0.6% |
| B | 13,388 | 18.1% |
| C | 24,469 | 33.1% |
| D | 26,141 | 35.4% |
| E | 7,712 | 10.4% |
| F | 1,391 | 1.9% |
| G | 303 | 0.4% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Wokingham at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,060 for a one-bedroom home and £1,657 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £158,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.21% 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 RG41, 50 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 20 violent, 3 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.3 times quieter.
Against the 177,503 residents the 2021 census counted in Wokingham, that is 0.28 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 Swallow Way, Wokingham
The 2021 census counted 177,503 residents in Wokingham across 69,165 households. 78.1% of those households own their home and 21.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a RG41 postcode: 10 primary, 3 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 Holt School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,468 |
| The Emmbrook School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,354 |
| The Forest School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,042 |
| The Hawthorns Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 423 |
| St Paul's CofE Junior School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 364 |
| Winnersh Primary School | Primary | Community school | 362 |
| Emmbrook Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 260 |
| Wheatfield Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 228 |
| Bearwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| Walter Infant School | Primary | Community school | 221 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wokingham Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Winnersh Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Winnersh Triangle Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Earley Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How Swallow Way, Wokingham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Swallow Way, Wokingham sits above that national figure — +0.3%.
Within Wokingham the street ranks 777 of 801 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,998 (-44.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,354 per square metre, across 21 of the 117 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 £11,500 to £575,000. 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.
Swallow Way, Wokingham sits in Wokingham, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Wokingham at 10.5 times median local earnings of £46,574 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
- Reading Road£250,000 median
- Barkham Road£325,000 median
- Ashville Way£219,950 median
- Woodward Close£298,625 median
- Bathurst Road£196,000 median
- Oxford Road£247,475 median
- Bearwood Road£375,000 median
- Kennet Court£188,750 median
- Clifton Road£250,000 median
- Jersey Drive£293,750 median
- St Pauls Gate£197,975 median
- Evendons Lane£325,000 median
- Laburnum Road£214,225 median
- Havelock Road£210,000 median
- Tamar Way£218,000 median
- Arbor Lane£400,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 39 Swallow Way6 sales
- 14 Swallow Way6 sales
- 43 Swallow Way5 sales
- 4 Swallow Way5 sales
- 15 Swallow Way5 sales
- 47 Swallow Way4 sales
- 16 Swallow Way4 sales
- 45 Swallow Way4 sales
- 41 Swallow Way4 sales
- 3 Swallow Way4 sales
- 35 Swallow Way4 sales
- 2 Swallow Way3 sales
- 37 Swallow Way3 sales
- 36 Swallow Way3 sales
- 9 Swallow Way3 sales
- 23 Swallow Way3 sales
- 11 Swallow Way3 sales
- 34 Swallow Way3 sales
- 12 Swallow Way3 sales
- 20 Swallow Way2 sales
- 33 Swallow Way2 sales
- 18 Swallow Way2 sales
- 48 Swallow Way2 sales
- 42 Swallow Way2 sales
Back to Wokingham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Swallow Way, Wokingham?
The median price paid in Swallow Way, Wokingham across every sale on the register is £158,000. 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 Swallow Way, Wokingham?
117 sales are on record for Swallow Way, Wokingham, the most recent completing on 27 Jun 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Swallow Way, Wokingham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +78.6% between 2004 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +38.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Swallow Way, Wokingham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £305,000, set in 2014. 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 Swallow Way, Wokingham?
£3,354 per square metre, from the 21 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 Jun 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, “Swallow Way, Wokingham 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.