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Walworth market report SE17 1, London
The standing SE17 1 (Walworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,757 registered sales in SE17 1 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SE17 1 (London) sold for £575,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £603,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,190 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,757 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SE17 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SE17 (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 SE17 1 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.
SE17 1 sold prices: where the market stands
The SE17 1 median stands at £575,000 for 2026, built from 33 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £603,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SE17 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SE17 1 costs about £8,190 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SE17 1 102% above the country at large.
SE17 1's median sold price, 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 | £575,000 | £575,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 71 |
| 2024 | £698,500 | £742,649 | 182 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 70 |
| 2022 | £545,000 | £639,075 | 90 |
| 2021 | £585,000 | £740,685 | 93 |
| 2020 | £635,000 | £823,926 | 64 |
| 2019 | £642,500 | £842,164 | 328 |
| 2018 | £574,100 | £765,286 | 217 |
| 2017 | £508,800 | £693,952 | 299 |
| 2016 | £540,000 | £755,465 | 77 |
| 2015 | £426,000 | £601,938 | 223 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 60 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 43 |
| 2012 | £226,000 | £332,644 | 36 |
| 2011 | £215,500 | £325,322 | 32 |
| 2010 | £222,000 | £348,153 | 31 |
| 2009 | £167,000 | £268,454 | 33 |
| 2008 | £216,500 | £354,889 | 46 |
| 2007 | £214,500 | £363,852 | 71 |
| 2006 | £192,000 | £333,287 | 89 |
| 2005 | £180,800 | £321,751 | 58 |
| 2004 | £174,000 | £316,018 | 62 |
| 2003 | £166,000 | £305,812 | 59 |
| 2002 | £156,800 | £295,018 | 68 |
| 2001 | £133,500 | £256,647 | 67 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 53 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 64 |
| 1998 | £70,800 | £142,915 | 54 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 35 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 27 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 22 |
In cash terms the typical SE17 1 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £575,000 in 2026, roughly 13 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 475%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE17 1 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 2000 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−28.4%). 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) | +15.0% | +12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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, 33 sales completed in SE17 1. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 89 sales a year over the last five years against 66 before the financial crisis. 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.
Reading the SE17 1 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the SE17 district median, SE17 1 sits 14% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SE17 1
The local authority for SE17 1 is Southwark, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,394 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£2,394 a month is £28,728 a year, which against the £575,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
Asked and answered: SE17 1 (Walworth)
Is SE17 1 (Walworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE17 1 (Walworth)?
Are property prices falling in SE17 1 (Walworth)?
What happens to SE17 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
SE17's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 39 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE17 district, not just SE17 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 SE17 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SE
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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, SE area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SE17
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SE17, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE17 2 | £435,500 | 16 |
| SE17 3 | £553,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full SE17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE17 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SE17 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SE17 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE17 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE17 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SE17 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE17 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE17 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE17 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.