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Anerley market report SE20, London
The SE20 (Anerley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 13,015 registered sales in SE20 (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.
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 SE20 (London) came in at £385,000, out of 114 registered, down 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £424,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,990 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 13,015 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SE20 is a postcode district covering Anerley, Penge 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 SE20 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.
SE20 sold prices: where the market stands
In the SE20 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £385,000, from 114 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £424,800, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SE20
By floor space, homes in SE20 have sold for about £5,990 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, SE20 sits 35% above the national market.
The price of a typical SE20 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 114 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 294 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 287 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 259 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 364 |
| 2021 | £408,700 | £517,467 | 419 |
| 2020 | £387,800 | £503,179 | 310 |
| 2019 | £387,000 | £507,264 | 392 |
| 2018 | £369,500 | £492,550 | 330 |
| 2017 | £374,000 | £510,098 | 336 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 345 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 423 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 513 |
| 2013 | £232,500 | £334,544 | 356 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 361 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 287 |
| 2010 | £208,000 | £326,198 | 221 |
| 2009 | £192,500 | £309,445 | 209 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 276 |
| 2007 | £192,500 | £326,534 | 568 |
| 2006 | £183,000 | £317,665 | 541 |
| 2005 | £158,800 | £282,600 | 476 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 544 |
| 2003 | £146,200 | £269,336 | 494 |
| 2002 | £122,500 | £230,483 | 633 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 713 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 584 |
| 1999 | £66,500 | £132,531 | 614 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 492 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 527 |
| 1996 | £50,200 | £105,870 | 416 |
| 1995 | £49,200 | £106,953 | 317 |
In cash terms the typical SE20 home went from £49,200 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 260%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SE20 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 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 66% of the typed total. In 2008, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £450,000 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, SE20
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 | £450,000 (2008) | – | 57 |
| Semi-detached | £527,500 | 8 | 1,080 |
| Terraced | £570,000 | 33 | 3,316 |
| Flats | £335,000 | 73 | 8,500 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 232 SE20 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 569 sales a year before the financial crisis and 264 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.
The shape of the SE20 market
Among the 28 measurable districts of its area, SE20 ranks 27 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around SE20
For renting purposes SE20 sits in Bromley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,675 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,304 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,915, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bromley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £385,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,675 a month (£20,100 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
Common questions on SE20 (Anerley)
Are property prices falling in SE20 (Anerley)?
Is SE20 (Anerley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE20 (Anerley)?
Will SE20 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in SE20 today
Everything above is what homes in SE20 sold for. The live side of the market holds 29 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the SE20 median sold price.
39% 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 SE20 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SE: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SE area, from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SE20 ranks 22 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.
Five-year change in the median, SE area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SE20, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE20 7 | £447,800 | 66 |
| SE20 8 | £350,000 | 48 |
How SE20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SE area, and SE20 itself, which ranks 27 of 28 by median price:
| 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% |
| SE20 (this report) | £385,000 | -6% |
Thinking of selling in SE20? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SE20's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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See every individual SE20 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.
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.