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Deptford market report SE8 3, London
The standing SE8 3 (Deptford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,972 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE8 3 (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the middle 2026 sale in SE8 3 (London) came in at £425,000, out of 32 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £470,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,640 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,972 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SE8 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SE8 (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 SE8 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.
The going rate for a home in SE8 3
32 sales were registered in SE8 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £425,000. The mean works out at £470,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SE8 3
The last five years of sales put SE8 3 at roughly £6,640 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SE8 3 sits 49% above the national market.
SE8 3's median sold price, 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 93 |
| 2024 | £441,300 | £469,193 | 79 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 62 |
| 2022 | £396,200 | £464,590 | 82 |
| 2021 | £457,000 | £578,621 | 91 |
| 2020 | £480,000 | £622,810 | 151 |
| 2019 | £440,000 | £576,735 | 89 |
| 2018 | £450,400 | £600,392 | 278 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 113 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 99 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 131 |
| 2014 | £385,000 | £546,190 | 196 |
| 2013 | £350,000 | £503,615 | 223 |
| 2012 | £257,500 | £379,008 | 212 |
| 2011 | £277,000 | £418,163 | 161 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 90 |
| 2009 | £258,800 | £416,023 | 38 |
| 2008 | £238,800 | £391,444 | 50 |
| 2007 | £249,500 | £423,221 | 144 |
| 2006 | £257,000 | £446,119 | 305 |
| 2005 | £197,800 | £352,004 | 100 |
| 2004 | £216,000 | £392,298 | 144 |
| 2003 | £179,200 | £330,130 | 92 |
| 2002 | £231,500 | £435,565 | 312 |
| 2001 | £219,000 | £421,016 | 205 |
| 2000 | £186,500 | £366,006 | 97 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 209 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 31 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 22 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 18 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 23 |
In cash terms the typical SE8 3 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 255%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SE8 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 1999 (+109.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−32.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SE8 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in SE8 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 175 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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 SE8 3
SE8 3 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.
Against the £425,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,821 a month (£21,852 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
How SE8 3 trades
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SE8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about SE8 3 (Deptford)
Is SE8 3 (Deptford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE8 3 (Deptford)?
Are property prices falling in SE8 3 (Deptford)?
Will SE8 3 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
SE8's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 52 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SE8 district, not just SE8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 SE8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SE prices by size
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
SE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SE8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SE8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE8 4 | £450,000 | 31 |
| SE8 5 | £370,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full SE8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SE8 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE8 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE8 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE8 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SE8 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SE8 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE8 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.