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Catford market report SE6 3, London
The SE6 3 (Catford) 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: 3,435 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE6 3 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 27 registered 2026 sales put the SE6 3 (London) median at £385,000, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £395,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,240 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,435 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SE6 3 is one sector of SE6 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SE6 3 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.
SE6 3 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in SE6 3 and the middle price, the median, is £385,000. The mean lands at £395,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in SE6 3
Per square metre, SE6 3 homes have averaged around £5,240 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SE6 3 35% above the national figure.
A typical SE6 3 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 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £408,500 | £418,268 | 75 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 63 |
| 2023 | £362,500 | £398,299 | 52 |
| 2022 | £367,500 | £430,936 | 78 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 97 |
| 2020 | £367,500 | £476,839 | 52 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 59 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 65 |
| 2017 | £349,500 | £476,683 | 104 |
| 2016 | £312,000 | £436,491 | 99 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 71 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 100 |
| 2013 | £222,000 | £319,436 | 107 |
| 2012 | £205,500 | £302,470 | 66 |
| 2011 | £196,500 | £296,639 | 78 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 50 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 48 |
| 2008 | £205,500 | £336,858 | 93 |
| 2007 | £201,800 | £342,309 | 226 |
| 2006 | £177,500 | £308,117 | 193 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 143 |
| 2004 | £163,200 | £296,403 | 156 |
| 2003 | £157,000 | £289,232 | 165 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 217 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 181 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 140 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 132 |
| 1998 | £65,600 | £132,418 | 150 |
| 1997 | £53,200 | £109,102 | 158 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 105 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical SE6 3 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 254%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% 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 3 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 (+32.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.8%). 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) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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
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 register shows 27 SE6 3 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 178 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
Rents around SE6 3
The local authority for SE6 3 is Lewisham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £385,000 median sold price, £1,821 a month is £21,852 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.
The shape of the SE6 3 market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SE6 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the SE6 district median, SE6 3 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
SE6 3 (Catford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SE6 3 (Catford)?
Is SE6 3 (Catford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE6 3 (Catford)?
Where do SE6 3 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 22% 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.
On the market in SE6 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 39 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE6 district, not just SE6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Silver Birch Close, London
- Bromley Road, Catford, London, SE6, London
- South Park Crescent, London, SE6 1JS, London
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SE6 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SE prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the SE area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SE area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SE6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SE6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE6 1 | £487,500 | 62 |
| SE6 2 | £410,000 | 49 |
| 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.
Selling in SE6 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SE6 3'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.
Estate agents working SE6 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE6 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE6 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SE6 3 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.
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.