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Deptford market report SE8 5, London
The standing SE8 5 (Deptford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,732 registered sales in SE8 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SE8 5 (London) home changed hands for £370,000 in 2026 (median of 31 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £444,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,732 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SE8 5 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 5 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.
SE8 5 sold prices: where the market stands
31 sales were registered in SE8 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £370,000. The mean works out at £444,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in SE8 5
Per square metre, SE8 5 homes have averaged around £6,760 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SE8 5 sits 30% above the national market.
SE8 5's median sold price, 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 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £389,000 | £398,302 | 72 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 101 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 67 |
| 2022 | £407,500 | £477,840 | 104 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 136 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 78 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 117 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 63 |
| 2017 | £515,000 | £702,408 | 206 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 259 |
| 2015 | £390,000 | £551,070 | 315 |
| 2014 | £310,900 | £441,066 | 135 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 93 |
| 2012 | £209,000 | £307,622 | 56 |
| 2011 | £181,200 | £273,542 | 64 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 51 |
| 2009 | £204,000 | £327,932 | 74 |
| 2008 | £188,800 | £309,483 | 62 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 159 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 138 |
| 2005 | £168,000 | £298,972 | 99 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 158 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 113 |
| 2002 | £129,500 | £243,653 | 132 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 152 |
| 2000 | £93,000 | £182,513 | 137 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 146 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 111 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 96 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 68 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical SE8 5 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 291%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 47% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE8 5 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 2000 (+32.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−29.1%). 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) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.3% | −4.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SE8 5
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in SE8 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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.
The rental side of SE8 5
The local authority for SE8 5 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 £370,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.9%. 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.
The shape of the SE8 5 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SE8 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within SE8, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
SE8 5 (Deptford): the questions that come up
Is SE8 5 (Deptford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE8 5 (Deptford)?
Are property prices falling in SE8 5 (Deptford)?
Will SE8 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 SE8 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SE area, 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%) | — |
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.
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 SE8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SE8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE8 3 | £425,000 | 32 |
| SE8 4 | £450,000 | 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 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SE8 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE8 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE8 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SE8 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SE8 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SE8 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SE8 5 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.