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Hextable market report BR8, Swanley
The BR8 (Hextable) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 10,174 registered sales in BR8 (Swanley) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 132 registered 2026 sales put the BR8 (Swanley) median at £411,800, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £420,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,750 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,174 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BR8 covering Swanley, Hextable, Crockenhill sits in Swanley. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BR8 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in BR8
In the BR8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £411,800, from 132 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £420,100, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BR8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BR8 costs about £4,750 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BR8 44% above the country at large.
The price of a typical BR8 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £411,800 | £411,800 | 132 |
| 2025 | £421,200 | £431,272 | 338 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 275 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 260 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 287 |
| 2021 | £374,000 | £473,532 | 418 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 308 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 350 |
| 2018 | £337,500 | £449,894 | 335 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 330 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 337 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 304 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 310 |
| 2013 | £209,500 | £301,450 | 274 |
| 2012 | £208,800 | £307,328 | 238 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 248 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 234 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 175 |
| 2008 | £209,500 | £343,415 | 216 |
| 2007 | £208,500 | £353,674 | 402 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 451 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 333 |
| 2004 | £181,500 | £329,639 | 408 |
| 2003 | £167,000 | £307,654 | 394 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 412 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 397 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 336 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 374 |
| 1998 | £79,000 | £159,467 | 339 |
| 1997 | £72,300 | £148,273 | 397 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 297 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 265 |
In cash terms the typical BR8 home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £411,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 185%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BR8 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+19.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £575,000 against £200,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, BR8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £575,000 | 17 | 1,397 |
| Semi-detached | £457,000 | 51 | 3,986 |
| Terraced | £365,000 | 43 | 3,338 |
| Flats | £200,000 | 21 | 1,453 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 251 BR8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 392 sales a year before the financial crisis and 258 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around BR8
The local authority for BR8 is Sevenoaks, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,790 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,252 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,926, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sevenoaks
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,790 a month is £21,480 a year, which against the £411,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the BR8 market
BR8 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What people ask about BR8 (Hextable)
Is BR8 (Hextable) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BR8 (Hextable)?
Are property prices falling in BR8 (Hextable)?
Are BR8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BR8 right now
Everything above is what homes in BR8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 4 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 112% above the BR8 median sold price.
75% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BR8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in BR
Real sold prices by size across the BR area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £539,000 | £760,000 (+41%) | £1,098,750 (+45%) | £1,443,750 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £400,000 | £464,000 (+16%) | £595,000 (+28%) | £775,000 (+30%) | £985,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £369,000 | £425,000 (+15%) | £545,000 (+28%) | £690,000 (+27%) | — |
| Flat | £268,500 | £367,000 (+37%) | £498,750 (+36%) | £750,000 (+50%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BR8 ranks 3 of 8 in the BR area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the BR area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BR8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BR8 7 | £400,000 | 91 |
| BR8 8 | £430,000 | 41 |
How BR8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BR4 | £675,000 | +6% |
| BR7 | £600,000 | +2% |
| BR6 | £591,200 | +12% |
| BR2 | £555,000 | +11% |
| BR3 | £550,000 | +10% |
| BR1 | £465,000 | +6% |
| BR5 | £447,000 | +5% |
| BR8 (this report) | £411,800 | +10% |
Selling a home in BR8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BR8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BR8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BR8. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual BR8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.