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Woolwich market report SE18 1, London
The SE18 1 (Woolwich) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,057 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE18 1 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SE18 1 (London) home changed hands for £404,000 in 2026 (median of 36 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £410,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,920 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,057 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SE18 1 is one sector of SE18 (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 SE18 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.
What buyers actually paid in SE18 1
In the SE18 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £404,000, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £410,600, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in SE18 1
Per square metre, SE18 1 homes have averaged around £4,920 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SE18 1 trades 42% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SE18 1 home, 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 | £404,000 | £404,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £407,500 | £417,245 | 66 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 65 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 73 |
| 2022 | £397,000 | £465,528 | 87 |
| 2021 | £391,500 | £495,690 | 114 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 63 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 73 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 77 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 95 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 101 |
| 2015 | £272,500 | £385,043 | 140 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 127 |
| 2013 | £204,500 | £294,255 | 120 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 111 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 96 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 84 |
| 2009 | £167,800 | £269,740 | 86 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 133 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 266 |
| 2006 | £172,500 | £299,438 | 248 |
| 2005 | £168,000 | £298,972 | 224 |
| 2004 | £158,000 | £286,959 | 276 |
| 2003 | £143,000 | £263,441 | 288 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 301 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 276 |
| 2000 | £81,200 | £159,355 | 242 |
| 1999 | £64,000 | £127,549 | 242 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 275 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 288 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 207 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical SE18 1 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £404,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 304%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE18 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 2002 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.9%). 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) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 36 sales completed in SE18 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 265 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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 rental side of SE18 1
For renting purposes SE18 1 sits in Greenwich. The ONS average private rent there is £1,952 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,529 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,941 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Greenwich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £404,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,952 a month (£23,424 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.
Reading the SE18 1 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: SE18 1 (Woolwich)
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What happens to SE18 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
SE18's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 36 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE18 district, not just SE18 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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.
"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 SE18 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SE area. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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 SE18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SE18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE18 2 | £433,800 | 30 |
| SE18 3 | £525,000 | 31 |
| SE18 4 | £330,000 | 25 |
| SE18 5 | £270,000 | 7 |
| SE18 6 | £407,500 | 76 |
| SE18 7 | £405,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full SE18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SE18 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE18 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE18 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE18 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SE18 1.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every SE18 1 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.
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.