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West Norwood market report SE27 9, London
The SE27 9 (West Norwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,714 registered sales in SE27 9 (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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 43 registered 2026 sales put the SE27 9 (London) median at £536,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £566,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,980 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,714 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SE27 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SE27 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SE27 9 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.
Today's SE27 9 prices, from the sold record
In the SE27 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £536,000, from 43 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £566,900, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
SE27 9 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SE27 9 sales average about £6,980 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SE27 9 88% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SE27 9 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 | £536,000 | £536,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £536,500 | £549,329 | 124 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 132 |
| 2023 | £521,500 | £573,001 | 88 |
| 2022 | £512,200 | £600,613 | 142 |
| 2021 | £497,800 | £630,279 | 160 |
| 2020 | £485,000 | £629,298 | 98 |
| 2019 | £441,200 | £578,308 | 102 |
| 2018 | £413,500 | £551,203 | 126 |
| 2017 | £468,200 | £638,578 | 102 |
| 2016 | £450,000 | £629,554 | 129 |
| 2015 | £375,000 | £529,875 | 161 |
| 2014 | £366,200 | £519,519 | 172 |
| 2013 | £290,000 | £417,281 | 169 |
| 2012 | £291,000 | £428,316 | 109 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 115 |
| 2010 | £244,200 | £382,968 | 104 |
| 2009 | £236,500 | £380,176 | 89 |
| 2008 | £249,500 | £408,983 | 98 |
| 2007 | £235,900 | £400,152 | 202 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 200 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 190 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 201 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 197 |
| 2002 | £157,000 | £295,394 | 231 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 212 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 192 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 209 |
| 1998 | £76,800 | £155,026 | 202 |
| 1997 | £71,300 | £146,222 | 186 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 128 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical SE27 9 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £536,000 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 348%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SE27 9 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 2001 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SE27 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.1% | −2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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, 43 sales completed in SE27 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 203 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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 SE27 9 market
This is a thin market: 43 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. 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.
Rents around SE27 9
SE27 9 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,882 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,725 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lambeth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £536,000 median sold price, £2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
What people ask about SE27 9 (West Norwood)
Is SE27 9 (West Norwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE27 9 (West Norwood)?
Are property prices falling in SE27 9 (West Norwood)?
Are SE27 9 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SE27's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 89 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE27 district, not just SE27 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 44% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Yeoman Close, West Norwood, London
- Norwood High Street, London, London
- Hamilton Road, West Dulwich, London
"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 SE27 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.
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
The spread across the SE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in SE27
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SE27, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE27 0 | £552,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full SE27 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE27 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SE27 9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SE27 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE27 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE27 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SE27 9.
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The live map plots every individual SE27 9 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.
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.