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Upper Norwood market report SE19, London
The SE19 (Upper Norwood) 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: 16,792 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE19 (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 typical home in SE19 (London) sold for £441,500 in 2026, the median of 122 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £515,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,390 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 16,792 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SE19 is the postcode district covering Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SE19 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 SE19
122 sales were registered in SE19 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £441,500. The mean works out at £515,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in SE19
Per square metre, SE19 homes have averaged around £6,390 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 runs 55% above it.
The price of a typical SE19 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 | £441,500 | £441,500 | 122 |
| 2025 | £442,600 | £453,184 | 436 |
| 2024 | £455,000 | £483,758 | 398 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 381 |
| 2022 | £405,000 | £474,909 | 509 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 627 |
| 2020 | £455,000 | £590,372 | 380 |
| 2019 | £420,000 | £550,519 | 390 |
| 2018 | £421,000 | £561,201 | 410 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 407 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 467 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 572 |
| 2014 | £297,200 | £421,630 | 595 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 596 |
| 2012 | £242,000 | £356,194 | 421 |
| 2011 | £220,500 | £332,870 | 358 |
| 2010 | £230,500 | £361,483 | 330 |
| 2009 | £203,500 | £327,128 | 242 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 323 |
| 2007 | £216,000 | £366,396 | 784 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 772 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 600 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 678 |
| 2003 | £154,000 | £283,705 | 673 |
| 2002 | £135,500 | £254,942 | 827 |
| 2001 | £106,000 | £203,780 | 709 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 776 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 773 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 617 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 673 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 520 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 426 |
In cash terms the typical SE19 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £441,500 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 323%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SE19 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SE19 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 70% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £840,000 against £380,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SE19
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 | £840,000 | 6 | 725 |
| Semi-detached | £695,200 | 10 | 1,555 |
| Terraced | £696,500 | 20 | 2,836 |
| Flats | £380,000 | 86 | 11,676 |
Sales activity in SE19
Sales per year, counted
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 276 SE19 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 727 sales a year before the financial crisis and 369 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around SE19
SE19 falls under Croydon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,256 a month here against £2,654 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £441,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,572 a month (£18,864 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
SE19 (Upper Norwood): the questions that come up
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Where do SE19 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
What you could buy in SE19 now
Everything above is what homes in SE19 sold for. The live side of the market holds 64 homes at the moment, listed by 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the SE19 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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.
What another bedroom costs in SE
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SE area, 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
SE19 ranks 18 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.
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.
Inside SE19, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SE19 1 | £436,500 | 40 |
| SE19 2 | £430,000 | 45 |
| SE19 3 | £450,000 | 37 |
How SE19 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 (this report) | £441,500 | -2% |
| SE13 | £435,000 | +1% |
| SE2 | £425,000 | +14% |
| SE18 | £415,000 | +2% |
Before you sell in SE19: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE19's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE19 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual SE19 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.
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.