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Catford market report SE6 1, London
The SE6 1 (Catford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,786 HM Land Registry entries for SE6 1 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 62 registered 2026 sales put the SE6 1 (London) median at £487,500, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £522,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,750 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,786 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SE6 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SE6 (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 SE6 1 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 SE6 1 sells for
The 2026 median for SE6 1 is £487,500, taken from 62 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £522,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
SE6 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of SE6 1 home has cost about £5,750 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 SE6 1 71% above the country at large.
A typical SE6 1 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 | £487,500 | £487,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £550,000 | £563,152 | 143 |
| 2024 | £580,000 | £616,659 | 137 |
| 2023 | £515,000 | £565,859 | 122 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 163 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 229 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 155 |
| 2019 | £477,500 | £625,888 | 155 |
| 2018 | £435,000 | £579,863 | 167 |
| 2017 | £440,000 | £600,116 | 160 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 169 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 219 |
| 2014 | £283,800 | £402,620 | 228 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 219 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 157 |
| 2011 | £211,000 | £318,529 | 156 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 165 |
| 2009 | £222,600 | £357,831 | 128 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 160 |
| 2007 | £228,000 | £386,752 | 411 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 395 |
| 2005 | £202,000 | £359,479 | 276 |
| 2004 | £190,800 | £346,530 | 381 |
| 2003 | £173,500 | £319,629 | 324 |
| 2002 | £148,100 | £278,649 | 406 |
| 2001 | £125,100 | £240,498 | 416 |
| 2000 | £116,000 | £227,650 | 379 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 372 |
| 1998 | £77,800 | £157,045 | 344 |
| 1997 | £64,400 | £132,071 | 402 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 322 |
| 1995 | £62,100 | £134,996 | 264 |
In cash terms the typical SE6 1 home went from £62,100 in 1995 to £487,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 261%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 23% 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 SE6 1 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 2015 (+33.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SE6 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.4% | −13.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 62 SE6 1 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 374 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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.
The rental side of SE6 1
SE6 1 falls under Lewisham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,821 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,450 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,705 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewisham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,821 a month is £21,852 a year, which against the £487,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How SE6 1 trades
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. Against the SE6 district median, SE6 1 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on SE6 1 (Catford)
How much did a house sell for in SE6 1 (Catford)?
Are property prices falling in SE6 1 (Catford)?
Is SE6 1 (Catford) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SE6 1 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in SE6 now
The live side of the market holds 39 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE6 district, not just SE6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Silver Birch Close, London
- Bromley Road, Catford, London, SE6, London
- South Park Crescent, London, SE6 1JS, 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 SE6 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SE
Real sold prices by size across the SE area, straight 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
SE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SE6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SE6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE6 2 | £410,000 | 49 |
| SE6 3 | £385,000 | 27 |
| SE6 4 | £512,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full SE6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SE6 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SE6 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE6 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE6 1 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 SE6 1.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every SE6 1 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.
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.