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Rotherhithe market report SE16 5, London
The SE16 5 (Rotherhithe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,134 HM Land Registry entries for SE16 5 (London), 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SE16 5 (London) home changed hands for £490,000 in 2026 (median of 31 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £489,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,360 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,134 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SE16 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SE16 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SE16 5 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 SE16 5
Across 31 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SE16 5 home went for £490,000. The mean is £489,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
SE16 5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SE16 5 at roughly £7,360 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SE16 5 trades 72% above the country as a whole.
SE16 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £490,000 | £490,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £535,000 | £547,793 | 69 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 77 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 79 |
| 2022 | £490,000 | £574,581 | 93 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 103 |
| 2020 | £482,000 | £625,405 | 59 |
| 2019 | £502,000 | £658,002 | 67 |
| 2018 | £495,000 | £659,844 | 57 |
| 2017 | £510,000 | £695,589 | 90 |
| 2016 | £477,500 | £668,027 | 132 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 111 |
| 2014 | £435,000 | £617,123 | 157 |
| 2013 | £369,000 | £530,954 | 160 |
| 2012 | £352,000 | £518,100 | 99 |
| 2011 | £325,000 | £490,625 | 112 |
| 2010 | £320,000 | £501,842 | 101 |
| 2009 | £330,000 | £530,478 | 75 |
| 2008 | £328,000 | £537,661 | 70 |
| 2007 | £322,500 | £547,050 | 201 |
| 2006 | £258,000 | £447,855 | 208 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 200 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 214 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 225 |
| 2002 | £232,500 | £437,447 | 340 |
| 2001 | £220,000 | £422,939 | 342 |
| 2000 | £186,000 | £365,025 | 294 |
| 1999 | £157,100 | £313,092 | 384 |
| 1998 | £135,000 | £272,507 | 249 |
| 1997 | £124,000 | £254,299 | 319 |
| 1996 | £125,000 | £263,619 | 185 |
| 1995 | £110,000 | £239,123 | 231 |
In cash terms the typical SE16 5 home went from £110,000 in 1995 to £490,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 105%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE16 5 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 2007 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.4% | −10.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SE16 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in SE16 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 253 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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 SE16 5
For renting purposes SE16 5 sits in Southwark. The ONS average private rent there is £2,394 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,814 a month here against £3,491 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Southwark
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £490,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,394 a month (£28,728 a year) works out at a 5.9% 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.
What kind of market SE16 5 is
This is a thin market: 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within SE16, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on SE16 5 (Rotherhithe)
Is SE16 5 (Rotherhithe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE16 5 (Rotherhithe)?
Are property prices falling in SE16 5 (Rotherhithe)?
What happens to SE16 5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
On the market in SE16 today
Turning to what is actually available: 93 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE16 district, not just SE16 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Flat 85, Tissington Court Rotherhithe New Road, London, London
- Brunel Road, London, London
- Brunel Road, London
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in SE
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SE 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SE area, five years
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 4 | £495,000 | 29 |
| 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 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE16 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE16 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE16 5 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 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE16 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SE16 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SE16 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.