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Catford market report SE6 4, London
The SE6 4 (Catford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,922 registered sales in SE6 4 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SE6 4 (London) home changed hands for £512,000 in 2026 (median of 51 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £521,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,170 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,922 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SE6 4 is a single group of streets within SE6 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SE6 4 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 SE6 4 homes really sell for
Across 51 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SE6 4 home went for £512,000. The mean is £521,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
SE6 4 prices by floor area
A square metre of SE6 4 home has cost about £6,170 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SE6 4 runs 80% above it.
A typical SE6 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £512,000 | £512,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 181 |
| 2024 | £441,500 | £469,405 | 147 |
| 2023 | £393,000 | £431,811 | 111 |
| 2022 | £435,500 | £510,673 | 192 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 189 |
| 2020 | £435,000 | £564,421 | 93 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 127 |
| 2018 | £391,600 | £522,010 | 210 |
| 2017 | £469,000 | £639,669 | 305 |
| 2016 | £373,500 | £522,530 | 196 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 284 |
| 2014 | £323,800 | £459,367 | 168 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 122 |
| 2012 | £247,500 | £364,289 | 122 |
| 2011 | £241,000 | £363,817 | 110 |
| 2010 | £218,500 | £342,664 | 100 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 98 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 115 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 257 |
| 2006 | £210,500 | £365,401 | 234 |
| 2005 | £193,000 | £343,462 | 211 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 260 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 245 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 254 |
| 2001 | £133,500 | £256,647 | 252 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 229 |
| 1999 | £86,000 | £171,394 | 257 |
| 1998 | £77,400 | £156,237 | 228 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 230 |
| 1996 | £58,800 | £124,007 | 194 |
| 1995 | £58,800 | £127,822 | 150 |
In cash terms the typical SE6 4 home went from £58,800 in 1995 to £512,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 301%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SE6 4 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 (+40.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.8% | +5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
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.
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.
SE6 4 recorded 51 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 243 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around SE6 4
SE6 4 falls under Lewisham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,821 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,450 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,705, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewisham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £512,000 median sold price, £1,821 a month is £21,852 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Reading the SE6 4 market
This is a thin market: 51 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. Against the SE6 district median, SE6 4 sits 14% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The questions people bring to SE6 4 (Catford)
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as SE6 4EF or SE6 4TS. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
Searches like house valuation catford
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £512,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: SE6 4 (Catford)
How much did a house sell for in SE6 4 (Catford)?
Are property prices falling in SE6 4 (Catford)?
Is SE6 4 (Catford) a good place to buy a house?
Will SE6 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
On the market in SE6 today
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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.
- Silver Birch Close, London
- Bromley Road, Catford, London, SE6, London
- South Park Crescent, London, SE6 1JS, 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 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.
What another bedroom costs in SE
Real sold prices by size across the SE area, straight 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
The spread across the SE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
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 3 | £385,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full SE6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SE6 4: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SE6 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE6 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE6 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SE6 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE6 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SE6 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE6 4 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.