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Deptford market report SE8, London
The standing SE8 (Deptford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 11,087 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SE8 (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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SE8 (London) came in at £375,000, out of 109 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £456,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,780 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 11,087 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SE8 is the postcode district covering Deptford, Evelyn, St John's in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SE8 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 buyers actually paid in SE8
Across 109 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SE8 home went for £375,000. The mean is £456,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SE8
A square metre of SE8 home has cost about £6,780 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SE8 32% above the country at large.
SE8'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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 109 |
| 2025 | £406,500 | £416,221 | 256 |
| 2024 | £442,100 | £470,043 | 240 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 199 |
| 2022 | £398,400 | £467,169 | 254 |
| 2021 | £405,000 | £512,782 | 323 |
| 2020 | £442,500 | £574,153 | 292 |
| 2019 | £424,500 | £556,418 | 276 |
| 2018 | £426,200 | £568,133 | 425 |
| 2017 | £493,500 | £673,084 | 415 |
| 2016 | £412,000 | £576,392 | 590 |
| 2015 | £358,500 | £506,561 | 551 |
| 2014 | £330,000 | £468,163 | 449 |
| 2013 | £265,900 | £382,604 | 518 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 397 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 336 |
| 2010 | £242,000 | £379,518 | 195 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 153 |
| 2008 | £211,000 | £345,874 | 184 |
| 2007 | £212,500 | £360,459 | 433 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 575 |
| 2005 | £177,000 | £314,989 | 323 |
| 2004 | £176,800 | £321,103 | 484 |
| 2003 | £153,000 | £281,863 | 342 |
| 2002 | £171,200 | £322,111 | 609 |
| 2001 | £141,100 | £271,258 | 485 |
| 2000 | £94,000 | £184,475 | 390 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 527 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 229 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 184 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 127 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 217 |
In cash terms the typical SE8 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 292%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 44% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SE8 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 (+50.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−13.6%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 81% of the typed total.
Median by property type, SE8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £735,000 (2024) | – | 119 |
| Terraced | £630,000 | 27 | 1,925 |
| Flats | £355,000 | 80 | 8,980 |
What SE8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −7.7% | −9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −2.7% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.9% | −4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 186 SE8 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 455 sales a year before the financial crisis and 212 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
The local authority for SE8 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewisham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £375,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,821 a month (£21,852 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
Reading the SE8 market
Flats dominate what actually sells, at 71% of last year's transactions, and the headline median follows them. House buyers should lean on the type split above rather than the overall figure. 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. Among the 28 measurable districts of its area, SE8 ranks 27 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Common questions on SE8 (Deptford)
Are property prices falling in SE8 (Deptford)?
Is SE8 (Deptford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SE8 (Deptford)?
Where do SE8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SE8 today
Everything above is what homes in SE8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 17 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the SE8 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (186 in SE8), the 17 homes listed here amount to about 5 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Atlanta Building, Deals Gateway, DEPTFORD
- Deals Gateway, Lewisham
- The Drakes, 390 Evelyn Street, Deptford, 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 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.
Month by month: when SE8 sells
March is when SE8 changes hands most (12.0% of the 1,272 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 5.2%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 78 | 6.1% |
| February | 77 | 6.1% |
| March | 153 | 12.0% |
| April | 66 | 5.2% |
| May | 102 | 8.0% |
| June | 133 | 10.5% |
| July | 107 | 8.4% |
| August | 113 | 8.9% |
| September | 113 | 8.9% |
| October | 105 | 8.3% |
| November | 113 | 8.9% |
| December | 112 | 8.8% |
Bedroom by bedroom: SE prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SE area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £480,000 | — | £670,000 | £850,000 (+27%) | £1,276,500 (+50%) |
| Semi-detached | £375,000 | £475,000 (+27%) | £597,500 (+26%) | £815,000 (+36%) | £1,233,000 (+51%) |
| Terraced | £378,500 | £445,000 (+18%) | £580,000 (+30%) | £786,000 (+36%) | £960,000 (+22%) |
| Flat | £330,000 | £425,000 (+29%) | £530,000 (+25%) | £650,000 (+23%) | £785,000 (+21%) |
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
SE8 ranks 25 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SE8, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How SE8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SE area, and SE8 itself, which ranks 27 of 28 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SE21 | £730,000 | +7% |
| SE24 | £648,200 | -6% |
| SE22 | £642,500 | +0% |
| SE4 | £597,500 | +6% |
| SE27 | £562,500 | +7% |
| SE1 | £560,000 | -20% |
| SE15 | £520,000 | -2% |
| SE3 | £514,500 | +2% |
| SE5 | £500,000 | +6% |
| SE7 | £500,000 | +3% |
| SE10 | £500,000 | -15% |
| SE23 | £500,000 | +4% |
| SE17 | £483,000 | -3% |
| SE11 | £480,000 | -14% |
| SE26 | £480,000 | +4% |
| SE9 | £475,000 | +7% |
| SE12 | £460,000 | +2% |
| SE6 | £450,000 | +3% |
| SE16 | £450,000 | -3% |
| SE14 | £445,000 | -7% |
| SE19 | £430,000 | -4% |
| SE2 | £426,500 | +14% |
| SE13 | £421,000 | -2% |
| SE8 (this report) | £375,000 | -7% |
Selling a home in SE8? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SE8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SE8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual SE8 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.