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Catford market report SE6, London
The SE6 (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: 22,697 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE6 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SE6 (London) home changed hands for £450,000 in 2026 (median of 189 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £489,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 22,697 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SE6 is a postcode district covering Catford, Bellingham, Rushey Green 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 SE6 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 sells for
Take the 189 registered 2026 sales in SE6 and the middle price, the median, is £450,000. The mean lands at £489,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SE6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SE6 sales average about £5,720 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SE6 sits 58% above the national market.
A typical SE6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 189 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 504 |
| 2024 | £445,000 | £473,126 | 439 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 381 |
| 2022 | £437,000 | £512,432 | 592 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 683 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 409 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 454 |
| 2018 | £392,000 | £522,543 | 555 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 686 |
| 2016 | £365,000 | £510,639 | 598 |
| 2015 | £334,000 | £471,942 | 750 |
| 2014 | £278,500 | £395,101 | 719 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 591 |
| 2012 | £232,000 | £341,475 | 447 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 433 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 397 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 353 |
| 2008 | £212,000 | £347,513 | 507 |
| 2007 | £215,500 | £365,548 | 1,156 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 1,085 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 850 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 1,072 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 974 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 1,172 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 1,117 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 1,046 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 1,068 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 950 |
| 1997 | £62,700 | £128,585 | 1,056 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 813 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 651 |
In cash terms the typical SE6 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 251%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SE6 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 (+22.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−6.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £650,000 against £333,500 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SE6
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 | £650,000 (2025) | – | 169 |
| Semi-detached | £645,000 | 22 | 3,050 |
| Terraced | £554,000 | 86 | 9,730 |
| Flats | £330,000 | 81 | 9,716 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in SE6
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 393 SE6 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 1,059 sales a year before the financial crisis and 421 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 tenants pay around SE6
The local authority for SE6 is Lewisham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,821 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,450 a month here against £2,705 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £450,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
What people ask about SE6 (Catford)
How much did a house sell for in SE6 (Catford)?
Are property prices falling in SE6 (Catford)?
Is SE6 (Catford) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SE6 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 is for sale in SE6 right now
Everything above is what homes in SE6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 39 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the SE6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in SE: the cost
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SE6 ranks 10 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.
SE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SE6, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE6 1 | £487,500 | 62 |
| SE6 2 | £410,000 | 49 |
| SE6 3 | £385,000 | 27 |
| SE6 4 | £512,000 | 51 |
How SE6 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 | £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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in SE6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE6, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SE6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE6 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.
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.