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Swingbrow market report PE16, Chatteris
The PE16 (Swingbrow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,157 registered sales in PE16 (Chatteris) 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.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PE16 (Chatteris) came in at £225,000, out of 90 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £243,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,770 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,157 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district PE16 covering Chatteris, Swingbrow sits in Chatteris. 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 PE16 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.
PE16 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 90 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PE16 home went for £225,000. The mean is £243,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
PE16 prices by floor area
A square metre of PE16 home has cost about £2,770 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PE16 21% below the national figure.
The price of a typical PE16 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 90 |
| 2025 | £236,000 | £241,643 | 210 |
| 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 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 144%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PE16 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £317,500 against £106,500 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, PE16
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 | £317,500 | 34 | 2,721 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 27 | 2,577 |
| Terraced | £178,800 | 22 | 2,489 |
| Flats | £106,500 | 7 | 360 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.3% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
PE16 recorded 149 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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 188 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of PE16
PE16 falls under Fenland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £835 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £621 a month here against £1,378 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
What kind of market PE16 is
Only 149 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PE16 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: PE16 (Swingbrow)
Is PE16 (Swingbrow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PE16 (Swingbrow)?
Are property prices falling in PE16 (Swingbrow)?
Where do PE16 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
PE16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in PE16 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 8 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 44% above the PE16 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (149 in PE16), the 8 homes listed here amount to about 3 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every PE16 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.
Month by month: when PE16 sells
August is when PE16 changes hands most (10.2% of the 1,152 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.7%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 77 | 6.7% |
| February | 79 | 6.9% |
| March | 116 | 10.1% |
| April | 79 | 6.9% |
| May | 98 | 8.5% |
| June | 113 | 9.8% |
| July | 90 | 7.8% |
| August | 117 | 10.2% |
| September | 104 | 9.0% |
| October | 77 | 6.7% |
| November | 95 | 8.2% |
| December | 107 | 9.3% |
Bedroom by bedroom: PE prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PE area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £212,000 | £240,000 (+13%) | £291,000 (+21%) | £379,995 (+31%) | £485,000 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £178,000 | £202,000 (+13%) | £237,000 (+17%) | £285,000 (+20%) | £350,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £147,000 | £184,000 (+25%) | £210,000 (+14%) | £260,000 (+24%) | £330,000 (+27%) |
| Flat | £113,000 | £142,000 (+26%) | £190,000 (+34%) | £270,000 (+42%) | £265,000 (-2%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PE16 ranks 5 of 35 in the PE 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 PE area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside PE16, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PE16 6 | £225,000 | 90 |
How PE16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PE area, and PE16 itself, which ranks 26 of 35 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PE5 | £635,000 | +48% |
| PE9 | £347,500 | +6% |
| PE8 | £345,000 | +1% |
| PE28 | £332,300 | -5% |
| PE36 | £331,200 | +5% |
| PE31 | £325,000 | +5% |
| PE19 | £315,000 | +5% |
| PE27 | £310,000 | +8% |
| PE26 | £300,000 | +10% |
| PE32 | £293,000 | -1% |
| PE29 | £283,000 | +4% |
| PE33 | £282,500 | +20% |
| PE6 | £280,000 | +10% |
| PE34 | £277,000 | +9% |
| PE14 | £271,000 | +5% |
| PE38 | £267,500 | +16% |
| PE10 | £260,000 | +10% |
| PE7 | £250,500 | +4% |
| PE12 | £246,200 | +9% |
| PE4 | £245,000 | +17% |
| PE37 | £245,000 | +0% |
| PE20 | £235,000 | +10% |
| PE2 | £230,000 | +10% |
| PE16 (this report) | £225,000 | +13% |
Selling in PE16? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PE16, open the average prices map and zoom from the PE16 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PE16 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PE16. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PE16 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.