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Walworth market report SE17 3, London
The standing SE17 3 (Walworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,526 HM Land Registry entries for SE17 3 (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: the 2026 median for SE17 3 (London) is £553,000, from 23 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £562,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,660 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,526 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SE17 3 is one sector of SE17 (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 SE17 3 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.
What SE17 3 homes really sell for
Take the 23 registered 2026 sales in SE17 3 and the middle price, the median, is £553,000. The mean lands at £562,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SE17 3
By floor space, homes in SE17 3 have sold for about £7,660 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SE17 3 trades 94% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SE17 3 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 | £553,000 | £553,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £455,000 | £465,880 | 106 |
| 2024 | £525,000 | £558,183 | 121 |
| 2023 | £497,500 | £546,631 | 118 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 113 |
| 2021 | £496,200 | £628,253 | 116 |
| 2020 | £600,000 | £778,512 | 106 |
| 2019 | £581,000 | £761,552 | 161 |
| 2018 | £455,000 | £606,524 | 80 |
| 2017 | £487,500 | £664,901 | 70 |
| 2016 | £468,000 | £654,737 | 95 |
| 2015 | £414,000 | £584,982 | 120 |
| 2014 | £371,500 | £527,038 | 116 |
| 2013 | £310,000 | £446,059 | 137 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 83 |
| 2011 | £280,000 | £422,692 | 125 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 133 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 65 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 109 |
| 2007 | £282,000 | £478,351 | 240 |
| 2006 | £243,000 | £421,817 | 180 |
| 2005 | £211,500 | £376,385 | 128 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 138 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 111 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 110 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 106 |
| 2000 | £128,500 | £252,181 | 88 |
| 1999 | £101,200 | £201,686 | 108 |
| 1998 | £82,300 | £166,128 | 102 |
| 1997 | £59,600 | £122,228 | 88 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 70 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical SE17 3 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £553,000 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 371%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SE17 3 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 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−17.3%). 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) | +21.5% | +18.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SE17 3
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SE17 3 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the SE17 3 market
This is a thin market: 23 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. Within SE17, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around SE17 3
For renting purposes SE17 3 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.
Set against the £553,000 median sold price, £2,394 a month is £28,728 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: SE17 3 (Walworth)
How much did a house sell for in SE17 3 (Walworth)?
Are property prices falling in SE17 3 (Walworth)?
Is SE17 3 (Walworth) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SE17 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What you could buy in SE17 now
Turning to what is actually available: 39 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE17 district, not just SE17 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 SE17 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: SE prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SE 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SE17
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SE17, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE17 1 | £575,000 | 33 |
| SE17 2 | £435,500 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full SE17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SE17 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SE17 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working SE17 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE17 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE17 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE17 3 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.