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Swingbrow market report PE16 6, Chatteris
The PE16 6 (Swingbrow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 8,144 HM Land Registry entries for PE16 6 (Chatteris), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 79 registered 2026 sales put the PE16 6 (Chatteris) median at £220,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £242,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,144 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like PE16 6 is a single group of streets within PE16 (Chatteris), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where PE16 6 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 PE16 6
Across 79 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PE16 6 home went for £220,000. The mean is £242,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PE16 6
By floor space, homes in PE16 6 have sold for about £2,750 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PE16 6 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
A typical PE16 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 208 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 193 |
| 2023 | £226,800 | £249,198 | 187 |
| 2022 | £234,500 | £274,978 | 258 |
| 2021 | £200,000 | £253,226 | 304 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 153 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 215 |
| 2018 | £183,200 | £244,209 | 226 |
| 2017 | £179,200 | £244,411 | 256 |
| 2016 | £168,500 | £235,733 | 285 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 232 |
| 2014 | £135,500 | £192,230 | 301 |
| 2013 | £134,000 | £192,813 | 216 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 211 |
| 2011 | £132,000 | £199,269 | 190 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 158 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 156 |
| 2008 | £137,500 | £225,392 | 173 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 385 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 333 |
| 2005 | £132,300 | £235,441 | 318 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 377 |
| 2003 | £107,000 | £197,120 | 373 |
| 2002 | £84,000 | £158,045 | 413 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £114,386 | 347 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 288 |
| 1999 | £48,000 | £95,661 | 314 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 300 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 248 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 195 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 252 |
In cash terms the typical PE16 6 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 138%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PE16 6 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 2002 (+41.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.4% | −8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 79 sales completed in PE16 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 354 sales a year before the financial crisis and 185 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 homes rent for around PE16 6
PE16 6 falls under Fenland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £835 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £621 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,378, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Fenland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£835 a month is £10,020 a year, which against the £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
Common questions on PE16 6 (Swingbrow)
Are property prices falling in PE16 6 (Swingbrow)?
Is PE16 6 (Swingbrow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PE16 6 (Swingbrow)?
Are PE16 6 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in PE16 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 27 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PE16 district, not just PE16 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every PE16 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: PE prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PE area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £245,000 | £338,000 (+38%) | £482,750 (+43%) | £645,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £187,000 | £220,000 (+18%) | £257,500 (+17%) | £340,000 (+32%) | £455,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £195,000 (+15%) | £225,000 (+15%) | £300,000 (+33%) | £465,000 (+55%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £155,500 (+30%) | £230,000 (+48%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, PE area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full PE16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PE16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PE16 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PE16 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the PE16 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PE16 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PE16 6.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PE16 6. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PE16 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.