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Woolwich market report SE18 4, London
The SE18 4 (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: 3,534 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE18 4 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 25 registered 2026 sales put the SE18 4 (London) median at £330,000, down 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £362,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,170 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,534 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SE18 4 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 4 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.
SE18 4 sold prices: where the market stands
The SE18 4 median stands at £330,000 for 2026, built from 25 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £362,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SE18 4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SE18 4 costs about £5,170 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SE18 4 runs 16% above it.
A typical SE18 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 49 |
| 2024 | £392,500 | £417,308 | 46 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 65 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 80 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 105 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 77 |
| 2019 | £296,200 | £388,247 | 60 |
| 2018 | £321,500 | £428,566 | 70 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 71 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 149 |
| 2015 | £278,000 | £392,814 | 169 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 120 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 99 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 59 |
| 2011 | £196,000 | £295,885 | 53 |
| 2010 | £223,500 | £350,506 | 60 |
| 2009 | £193,800 | £311,535 | 56 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 64 |
| 2007 | £214,400 | £363,682 | 254 |
| 2006 | £182,500 | £316,797 | 187 |
| 2005 | £177,800 | £316,412 | 132 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 144 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 217 |
| 2002 | £157,000 | £295,394 | 295 |
| 2001 | £134,500 | £258,569 | 188 |
| 2000 | £131,000 | £257,088 | 143 |
| 1999 | £88,500 | £176,376 | 151 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 99 |
| 1997 | £68,500 | £140,480 | 76 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 57 |
| 1995 | £63,200 | £137,387 | 114 |
In cash terms the typical SE18 4 home went from £63,200 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SE18 4 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 (+48.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.3%). 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) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.2% | −3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in SE18 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 195 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 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.
Reading the SE18 4 market
This is a thin market: 25 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. Within SE18, this sector trades 20% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around SE18 4
The local authority for SE18 4 is Greenwich, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,952 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,529 a month here against £2,941 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Greenwich
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £330,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,952 a month (£23,424 a year) works out at a 7.1% 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.
SE18 4 (Woolwich): the questions that come up
Is SE18 4 (Woolwich) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE18 4 (Woolwich)?
Are property prices falling in SE18 4 (Woolwich)?
Will SE18 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.
On the market in SE18 today
Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE18 district, not just SE18 4: 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.
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 SE18 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SE area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SE18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SE18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE18 1 | £404,000 | 36 |
| SE18 2 | £433,800 | 30 |
| SE18 3 | £525,000 | 31 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE18 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE18 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE18 4 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 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE18 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE18 4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.