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Upper Norwood market report SE19 3, London
The SE19 3 (Upper Norwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,805 HM Land Registry entries for SE19 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 SE19 3 (London) is £450,000, from 37 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £512,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,060 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,805 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SE19 3 is a single group of streets within SE19 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SE19 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 SE19 3 sells for
The SE19 3 median stands at £450,000 for 2026, built from 37 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £512,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SE19 3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SE19 3 homes have averaged around £6,060 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SE19 3 runs 58% above it.
A typical SE19 3 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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 132 |
| 2024 | £452,500 | £481,100 | 134 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 124 |
| 2022 | £391,200 | £458,727 | 192 |
| 2021 | £485,000 | £614,073 | 208 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 149 |
| 2019 | £433,500 | £568,215 | 142 |
| 2018 | £390,000 | £519,877 | 137 |
| 2017 | £400,000 | £545,560 | 139 |
| 2016 | £389,000 | £544,215 | 152 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 206 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 207 |
| 2013 | £263,800 | £379,582 | 192 |
| 2012 | £238,300 | £350,748 | 145 |
| 2011 | £215,500 | £325,322 | 118 |
| 2010 | £223,800 | £350,976 | 95 |
| 2009 | £198,000 | £318,287 | 85 |
| 2008 | £247,500 | £405,705 | 128 |
| 2007 | £218,000 | £369,789 | 289 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 270 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 197 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 245 |
| 2003 | £156,500 | £288,311 | 252 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 273 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 261 |
| 2000 | £91,800 | £180,158 | 244 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 272 |
| 1998 | £63,400 | £127,977 | 200 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 246 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 174 |
| 1995 | £54,200 | £117,822 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical SE19 3 home went from £54,200 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 282%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SE19 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 2002 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.0%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +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 SE19 3
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.
SE19 3 recorded 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 254 sales a year before the financial crisis and 124 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.
Rents around SE19 3
The local authority for SE19 3 is Croydon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,256 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,654 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Reading the SE19 3 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SE19 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Asked and answered: SE19 3 (Upper Norwood)
Are property prices falling in SE19 3 (Upper Norwood)?
Is SE19 3 (Upper Norwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE19 3 (Upper Norwood)?
What happens to SE19 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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 SE19 now
Turning to what is actually available: 64 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE19 district, not just SE19 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Mowbray Road, Upper Norwood, London, Upper Norwood
- Crystal Palace, London, Greater London, London
- Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, London
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 SE19 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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SE19
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SE19's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE19 1 | £436,500 | 40 |
| SE19 2 | £430,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full SE19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE19 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SE19 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SE19 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE19 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE19 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SE19 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE19 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SE19 3 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.
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.