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Woolwich market report SE18, London
The standing SE18 (Woolwich) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 29,222 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE18 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SE18 (London) came in at £415,000, out of 218 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £406,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,520 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 29,222 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SE18 is a postcode district covering Woolwich, Royal Arsenal in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SE18 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 sells for
In the SE18 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £415,000, from 218 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £406,800, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SE18
By floor space, homes in SE18 have sold for about £5,520 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SE18 sits 46% above the national market.
The price of a typical SE18 home, 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 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 218 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 565 |
| 2024 | £444,000 | £472,063 | 739 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 605 |
| 2022 | £444,700 | £521,461 | 977 |
| 2021 | £405,000 | £512,782 | 955 |
| 2020 | £381,800 | £495,393 | 560 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 851 |
| 2018 | £425,000 | £566,533 | 974 |
| 2017 | £373,000 | £508,735 | 849 |
| 2016 | £330,500 | £462,373 | 916 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 1,056 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 1,007 |
| 2013 | £224,000 | £322,314 | 841 |
| 2012 | £198,000 | £291,431 | 710 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 506 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 519 |
| 2009 | £187,000 | £300,604 | 485 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 620 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 1,528 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 1,450 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 1,394 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 1,376 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 1,339 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 1,364 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 1,143 |
| 2000 | £85,500 | £167,794 | 979 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 1,200 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 1,091 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 1,014 |
| 1996 | £49,800 | £105,026 | 718 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 673 |
In cash terms the typical SE18 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 274%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE18 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £660,000 against £355,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SE18
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £660,000 (2025) | – | 355 |
| Semi-detached | £500,000 | 15 | 2,120 |
| Terraced | £440,000 | 90 | 12,460 |
| Flats | £326,000 | 112 | 14,279 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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.
Sales activity in SE18
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 441 sales completed in SE18. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,322 sales a year before the financial crisis and 621 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 market
Among the 28 measurable districts of its area, SE18 ranks 24 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around SE18
For renting purposes SE18 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.
£1,952 a month is £23,424 a year, which against the £415,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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.
What people ask about SE18 (Woolwich)
How much did a house sell for in SE18 (Woolwich)?
Are property prices falling in SE18 (Woolwich)?
Is SE18 (Woolwich) a good place to buy a house?
Will SE18 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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
Everything above is what homes in SE18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 36 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the SE18 median sold price.
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SE prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SE area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SE18 ranks 12 of 28 in the SE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SE area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SE18, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE18 1 | £404,000 | 36 |
| 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 |
How SE18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SE24 | £648,200 | -6% |
| SE22 | £620,000 | -3% |
| SE21 | £608,500 | -10% |
| SE4 | £562,500 | +0% |
| SE1 | £550,000 | -21% |
| SE27 | £550,000 | +5% |
| SE3 | £520,000 | +3% |
| SE15 | £520,000 | -2% |
| SE10 | £507,500 | -14% |
| SE7 | £505,000 | +4% |
| SE17 | £505,000 | +1% |
| SE26 | £500,000 | +9% |
| SE23 | £498,900 | +4% |
| SE5 | £487,500 | +4% |
| SE11 | £475,000 | -15% |
| SE9 | £472,800 | +6% |
| SE12 | £460,000 | +2% |
| SE6 | £450,000 | +3% |
| SE16 | £450,000 | -3% |
| SE14 | £446,200 | -6% |
| SE19 | £441,500 | -2% |
| SE13 | £435,000 | +1% |
| SE2 | £425,000 | +14% |
| SE18 (this report) | £415,000 | +2% |
Selling a home in SE18? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE18, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE18 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE18 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.