That is the middle of 700 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.8 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
700 homes sold in three years: 71 detached houses, 130 semi-detached houses, 315 terraced houses and 184 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£576K
median sale · 71 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£510K–£625K
Last 12 months
£577K16 sold
New build
£605K
Semi-detached houses£408K
median sale · 130 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£353K–£460K
Last 12 months
£380K31 sold
New build
£470K
Terraced houses£335K
median sale · 315 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£288K–£391K
Last 12 months
£342K88 sold
New build
£440K
Flats and maisonettes£241K
median sale · 184 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£207K–£285K
Last 12 months
£228K45 sold
New build
£304K
The mix
A terraced town: 45% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses10%
Semi-detached houses19%
Terraced houses45%
Flats and maisonettes26%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Swanscombe’s homes sold for between £268K and £425K
One sale in ten was under £220K and one in ten over £530K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £331,000, sits in the £300–400K band
700 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.8 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in the last 12 months (£260,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
180 sales in the last 12 months, against 491 in 2002, the busiest year, and 142 in 2008. Sales fell by 57% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 50% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Swanscombe costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Swanscombe, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£125K
£162K
£280K
£260K
£385K
£495K
£577K
Semi-detached houses
£56K
£106K
£209K
£219K
£276K
£350K
£380K
Terraced houses
£48K
£89K
£164K
£170K
£235K
£305K
£342K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£50K
£189K
£160K
£213K
£200K
£228K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 2.8% of sales in the last 12 months
1,882 new homes have been sold in Swanscombe since 1995; the share peaked at 40% in 2011.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £446,497
against £320,000 for a home sold on, 40% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
25% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.4% sold leasehold in Swanscombe. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Whitecliff is Swanscombe’s busiest street, with 45 sales in three years
50 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 21 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Whitecliff
DA10
45
£439,995
Mixed · new builds
2
Church Road
DA10
24
£270,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Milton Road
DA10
22
£291,250
Mixed
4
Homefield Avenue
DA10
20
£644,995
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
Knockhall Road
DA9
18
£336,500
Mostly terraced houses
6
London Road
DA9
18
£175,000
Mostly flats
7
Tiltman Avenue
DA9
16
£298,737
Mostly flats · new builds
8
North Star Boulevard
DA9
16
£230,000
Mostly flats
9
Whiting Avenue
DA9
15
£445,000
Mixed · new builds
10
Stanhope Road
DA10
15
£282,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Combes Road
DA10
13
£525,995
Mixed · new builds
12
Pentstemon Drive
DA10
13
£462,000
Mixed
13
Mounts Road
DA9
13
£335,000
Mixed
14
Carmichael Avenue
DA9
13
£250,000
Mostly flats
15
Everard Road
DA9
12
£441,750
Mixed · new builds
Dearest streets
Homefield Avenue: £644,995
Swanscombe median£331K
Homefield Avenue£645K
Hassell Road£583K
Castleridge Drive£558K
Combes Road£526K
Caspian Way£470K
Cheapest streets
London Road: £175,000
Swanscombe median£331K
London Road£175K
Clovelly Place£180K
Cobham Terrace£188K
Wainwright Avenue£218K
Portland Place£221K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Kent
Swanscombe is the 55th most expensive of 87 towns in Kent
Swanscombe is in the middle of Kent’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Swanscombe
What is the average house price in Swanscombe?
The median home in Swanscombe sold for £331,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 700 standard sales (£335,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £575,995, semi-detached houses £407,500, terraced houses £335,000 and flats and maisonettes £241,000.
Are house prices going up in Swanscombe?
The median was £325,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£328,500), and £335,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Swanscombe each year?
180 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 270 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Swanscombe?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Homefield Avenue (DA10, £644,995), Hassell Road (DA10, £583,245) and Castleridge Drive (DA9, £557,500).
How much does a new build cost in Swanscombe?
New homes sold for a median £446,497 over three years, against £320,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 18% of sales.
Is Swanscombe expensive for Kent?
Swanscombe is the 55th most expensive of 87 towns of 2,500 or more in Kent by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.