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Deptford market report SE8 4, London

The SE8 4 (Deptford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,365 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SE8 4 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: a typical SE8 4 (London) home changed hands for £450,000 in 2026 (median of 31 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier), with the mean at £479,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,890 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,365 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

SE8 4 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.

The going rate for a home in SE8 4

The 2026 median for SE8 4 is £450,000, taken from 31 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £479,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

SE8 4 prices by floor area

Measured by floor area, the last five years of SE8 4 sales average about £6,890 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.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SE8 4 trades 58% above the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical SE8 4 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 276%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2016 (+40.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−23.4%). 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

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.

The turnover behind the prices

The register shows 31 SE8 4 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 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.

Reading the SE8 4 market

This is a thin market: 31 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 SE8 district median, SE8 4 sits 11% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.

Rents around SE8 4

The local authority for SE8 4 is Lewisham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.

Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,821 a month is £21,852 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.

Asked and answered: SE8 4 (Deptford)

Will SE8 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 27% over five years in cash and flat 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 you could buy in SE8 now

What another bedroom costs in SE

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the SE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in SE8

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SE8, one report each:

Zoom out to the full SE8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SE8 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in SE8 4: what the record supports

Take it further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SE8 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every SE8 4 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.

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.