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Rotherhithe market report SE16 4, London
The standing SE16 4 (Rotherhithe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,038 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SE16 4 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SE16 4 (London) home changed hands for £495,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £557,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,320 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,038 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SE16 4 is one sector of SE16 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SE16 4 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.
Today's SE16 4 prices, from the sold record
The SE16 4 median stands at £495,000 for 2026, built from 29 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £557,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in SE16 4
The last five years of sales put SE16 4 at roughly £7,320 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SE16 4 74% above the country at large.
A typical SE16 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £495,000 | £495,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £480,000 | £491,478 | 71 |
| 2024 | £490,000 | £520,971 | 67 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 83 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 66 |
| 2021 | £452,500 | £572,923 | 73 |
| 2020 | £485,600 | £630,076 | 45 |
| 2019 | £465,000 | £609,504 | 65 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 76 |
| 2017 | £452,500 | £617,165 | 70 |
| 2016 | £450,000 | £629,554 | 92 |
| 2015 | £454,000 | £641,502 | 87 |
| 2014 | £400,000 | £567,470 | 149 |
| 2013 | £345,000 | £496,421 | 133 |
| 2012 | £350,000 | £515,156 | 92 |
| 2011 | £306,000 | £461,942 | 77 |
| 2010 | £326,200 | £511,566 | 102 |
| 2009 | £285,000 | £458,140 | 115 |
| 2008 | £295,000 | £483,567 | 71 |
| 2007 | £310,000 | £525,846 | 133 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 139 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 223 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 122 |
| 2003 | £243,100 | £447,849 | 120 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 125 |
| 2001 | £194,000 | £372,955 | 127 |
| 2000 | £187,500 | £367,969 | 93 |
| 1999 | £155,000 | £308,907 | 122 |
| 1998 | £174,800 | £352,846 | 128 |
| 1997 | £87,000 | £178,419 | 85 |
| 1996 | £82,500 | £173,989 | 30 |
| 1995 | £99,500 | £216,298 | 28 |
In cash terms the typical SE16 4 home went from £99,500 in 1995 to £495,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 129%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SE16 4 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 1998 (+100.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−17.1%). 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) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
SE16 4 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 135 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the SE16 4 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SE16 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SE16, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of SE16 4
For renting purposes SE16 4 sits in Southwark. The ONS average private rent there is £2,394 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,814 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,491, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Southwark
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £495,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,394 a month (£28,728 a year) works out at a 5.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on SE16 4 (Rotherhithe)
Are property prices falling in SE16 4 (Rotherhithe)?
Is SE16 4 (Rotherhithe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE16 4 (Rotherhithe)?
Will SE16 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in SE16 right now
The live side of the market holds 93 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE16 district, not just SE16 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% 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.
- Flat 85, Tissington Court Rotherhithe New Road, London, London
- Brunel Road, London, London
- Brunel Road, London
"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 SE16 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: SE prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the SE 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 | — | £516,250 | £795,000 (+54%) | £1,325,000 (+67%) | £2,025,000 (+53%) |
| Semi-detached | £375,000 | £480,000 (+28%) | £613,025 (+28%) | £870,000 (+42%) | £1,390,000 (+60%) |
| Terraced | £405,000 | £475,000 (+17%) | £630,000 (+33%) | £878,697 (+39%) | £1,275,000 (+45%) |
| Flat | £345,000 | £465,000 (+35%) | £645,000 (+39%) | £885,000 (+37%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SE16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SE16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE16 2 | £360,000 | 13 |
| SE16 3 | £340,000 | 26 |
| SE16 5 | £490,000 | 31 |
| SE16 6 | £525,000 | 19 |
| SE16 7 | £457,200 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full SE16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SE16 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE16 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE16 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE16 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SE16 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE16 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE16 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE16 4 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.