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Rotherhithe market report SE16 7, London
The standing SE16 7 (Rotherhithe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,721 registered sales in SE16 7 (London) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SE16 7 (London) sold for £457,200 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £491,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,721 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SE16 7 is a single group of streets within SE16 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SE16 7 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.
SE16 7 sold prices: where the market stands
The SE16 7 median stands at £457,200 for 2026, built from 36 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £491,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SE16 7
A square metre of SE16 7 home has cost about £7,460 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SE16 7 sits 60% above the national market.
The price of a typical SE16 7 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £457,200 | £457,200 | 36 |
| 2025 | £466,500 | £477,655 | 116 |
| 2024 | £473,500 | £503,428 | 142 |
| 2023 | £505,000 | £554,872 | 118 |
| 2022 | £487,000 | £571,063 | 133 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 104 |
| 2020 | £482,500 | £626,054 | 68 |
| 2019 | £500,000 | £655,380 | 129 |
| 2018 | £515,000 | £686,505 | 264 |
| 2017 | £560,000 | £763,784 | 225 |
| 2016 | £466,400 | £652,498 | 252 |
| 2015 | £439,500 | £621,014 | 256 |
| 2014 | £393,000 | £557,539 | 215 |
| 2013 | £386,000 | £555,415 | 425 |
| 2012 | £306,000 | £450,394 | 242 |
| 2011 | £327,000 | £493,644 | 186 |
| 2010 | £309,000 | £484,592 | 216 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 107 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 81 |
| 2007 | £288,000 | £488,528 | 217 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 219 |
| 2005 | £237,000 | £421,764 | 151 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 207 |
| 2003 | £213,500 | £393,319 | 224 |
| 2002 | £205,000 | £385,706 | 277 |
| 2001 | £185,000 | £355,653 | 327 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 329 |
| 1999 | £134,000 | £267,055 | 332 |
| 1998 | £122,000 | £246,266 | 317 |
| 1997 | £102,000 | £209,181 | 305 |
| 1996 | £83,000 | £175,043 | 331 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical SE16 7 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £457,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 147%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 40% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE16 7 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 2013 (+26.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.2%). 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) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.2% | −3.5% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 36 SE16 7 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 244 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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 7
For renting purposes SE16 7 sits in Southwark. The ONS average private rent there is £2,394 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,814 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,491 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Southwark
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £457,200 median sold price, £2,394 a month is £28,728 a year, a gross yield of 6.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the SE16 7 market
This is a thin market: 36 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.
Asked and answered: SE16 7 (Rotherhithe)
How much did a house sell for in SE16 7 (Rotherhithe)?
Are property prices falling in SE16 7 (Rotherhithe)?
Is SE16 7 (Rotherhithe) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SE16 7 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in SE16 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 93 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE16 district, not just SE16 7: 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in SE
Real sold prices by size across the SE area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
SE area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SE16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SE16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE16 2 | £360,000 | 13 |
| SE16 3 | £340,000 | 26 |
| SE16 4 | £495,000 | 29 |
| SE16 5 | £490,000 | 31 |
| SE16 6 | £525,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full SE16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SE16 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE16 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE16 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE16 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SE16 7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE16 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE16 7 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.