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West Norwood market report SE27, London
The SE27 (West 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: 10,276 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE27 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SE27 (London) sold for £550,000 in 2026, the median of 80 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £591,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,890 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 10,276 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SE27 is a postcode district covering West Norwood 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 SE27 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 SE27 homes really sell for
Take the 80 registered 2026 sales in SE27 and the middle price, the median, is £550,000. The mean lands at £591,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SE27
A square metre of SE27 home has cost about £6,890 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SE27 93% above the country at large.
SE27's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 80 |
| 2025 | £565,000 | £578,511 | 262 |
| 2024 | £513,500 | £545,956 | 260 |
| 2023 | £518,000 | £569,156 | 213 |
| 2022 | £517,500 | £606,828 | 284 |
| 2021 | £525,000 | £664,718 | 342 |
| 2020 | £490,000 | £635,785 | 214 |
| 2019 | £506,000 | £663,245 | 240 |
| 2018 | £445,000 | £593,193 | 255 |
| 2017 | £497,600 | £678,676 | 255 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 243 |
| 2015 | £420,000 | £593,460 | 323 |
| 2014 | £375,000 | £532,003 | 343 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 366 |
| 2012 | £280,000 | £412,125 | 250 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 246 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 214 |
| 2009 | £236,500 | £380,176 | 159 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 198 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 473 |
| 2006 | £212,000 | £368,005 | 460 |
| 2005 | £193,500 | £344,352 | 409 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 458 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 434 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 498 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 472 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 423 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 451 |
| 1998 | £76,500 | £154,421 | 435 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 437 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 329 |
| 1995 | £57,400 | £124,779 | 250 |
In cash terms the typical SE27 home went from £57,400 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 341%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE27 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 2000 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−10.6%). 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) | −2.7% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 51% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,200,000 against £395,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SE27
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 | £1,200,000 (2024) | – | 156 |
| Semi-detached | £890,500 | 7 | 1,403 |
| Terraced | £682,500 | 28 | 3,465 |
| Flats | £413,800 | 44 | 5,220 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 187 sales completed in SE27. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 453 sales a year before the financial crisis and 220 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.
What kind of market SE27 is
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. Among the 28 measurable districts of its area, SE27 ranks 6 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around SE27
The local authority for SE27 is Lambeth, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,882 a month here against £3,725 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lambeth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £550,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,527 a month (£30,324 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
What people ask about SE27 (West Norwood)
How much did a house sell for in SE27 (West Norwood)?
Are property prices falling in SE27 (West Norwood)?
Is SE27 (West Norwood) a good place to buy a house?
Will SE27 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 SE27 now
Everything above is what homes in SE27 sold for. The live side of the market holds 89 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 32% below the SE27 median sold price.
44% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Yeoman Close, West Norwood, London
- Norwood High Street, London, London
- Hamilton Road, West Dulwich, 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 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.
What another bedroom costs in SE
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SE area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
SE27 ranks 6 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SE27, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SE27 0 | £552,000 | 37 |
| SE27 9 | £536,000 | 43 |
How SE27 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 (this report) | £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 | £415,000 | +2% |
Before you sell in SE27: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE27's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE27 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SE27: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE27.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE27 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE27 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.