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Woolwich market report SE18 3, London
The SE18 3 (Woolwich) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,429 registered sales in SE18 3 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SE18 3 (London) is £525,000, from 31 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £500,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,220 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,429 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SE18 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SE18 (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 SE18 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 a home in SE18 3 sells for
31 sales were registered in SE18 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £525,000. The mean works out at £500,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in SE18 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SE18 3 sales average about £5,220 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SE18 3 runs 84% above it.
SE18 3'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 | £525,000 | £525,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £480,000 | £491,478 | 87 |
| 2024 | £445,000 | £473,126 | 76 |
| 2023 | £449,000 | £493,341 | 90 |
| 2022 | £485,000 | £568,718 | 105 |
| 2021 | £458,500 | £580,520 | 142 |
| 2020 | £426,000 | £552,744 | 86 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 76 |
| 2018 | £390,000 | £519,877 | 71 |
| 2017 | £425,000 | £579,657 | 101 |
| 2016 | £342,500 | £479,161 | 120 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 135 |
| 2014 | £273,500 | £388,008 | 156 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 133 |
| 2012 | £228,500 | £336,323 | 132 |
| 2011 | £229,500 | £346,457 | 74 |
| 2010 | £220,200 | £345,330 | 85 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 63 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 95 |
| 2007 | £214,000 | £363,004 | 244 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 229 |
| 2005 | £184,000 | £327,446 | 186 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 218 |
| 2003 | £164,200 | £302,496 | 204 |
| 2002 | £137,800 | £259,270 | 240 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 222 |
| 2000 | £91,000 | £178,588 | 155 |
| 1999 | £87,000 | £173,386 | 200 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 163 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 219 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 157 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 134 |
In cash terms the typical SE18 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £525,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 303%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SE18 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 2001 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SE18 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.4% | +6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
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
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.
SE18 3 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 212 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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.
What homes rent for around SE18 3
SE18 3 falls under Greenwich, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,952 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,529 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,941, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Greenwich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £525,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,952 a month (£23,424 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
The shape of the SE18 3 market
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. Against the SE18 district median, SE18 3 sits 27% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
SE18 3 (Woolwich): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SE18 3 (Woolwich)?
Are property prices falling in SE18 3 (Woolwich)?
Is SE18 3 (Woolwich) a good place to buy a house?
Are SE18 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SE18's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 36 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE18 district, not just SE18 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
Real sold prices by size across the SE area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, SE area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SE18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SE18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE18 1 | £404,000 | 36 |
| SE18 2 | £433,800 | 30 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SE18 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE18 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE18 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE18 3 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 SE18 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE18 3.
Dig further
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See every individual SE18 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.