Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 121,705 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the SM postcode area (Sutton) 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 data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
SM is the postcode area centred on Sutton, taking in 7 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where SM sits
Click the map to open SM on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£437,500median sold price, 2026
+3%five-year change (cash)
2,167sales in the last 12 months
4.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in SM sells for
The 2026 median in SM is £437,500, from 592 registered sales; the mean, £469,100, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so SM trades 60% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SM home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£437,500
£437,500
592
2025
£460,000
£460,000
2,924
2024
£463,000
£480,767
2,929
2023
£440,500
£472,698
2,917
2022
£438,000
£501,610
3,627
2021
£425,000
£525,538
4,265
2020
£410,000
£519,559
2,869
2019
£399,200
£511,035
3,235
2018
£380,000
£494,717
3,160
2017
£370,000
£492,857
3,616
2016
£353,000
£482,317
3,755
2015
£325,000
£448,500
3,882
2014
£290,000
£401,807
3,893
2013
£250,000
£351,324
3,405
2012
£245,000
£352,188
2,924
2011
£236,000
£347,949
2,760
2010
£240,500
£368,357
2,721
2009
£215,000
£337,543
2,647
2008
£238,000
£381,021
2,583
2007
£238,000
£394,286
5,249
2006
£215,000
£364,496
5,252
2005
£205,000
£356,297
4,207
2004
£194,000
£344,113
4,951
2003
£180,000
£323,859
4,796
2002
£160,000
£294,008
5,479
2001
£135,000
£253,469
5,292
2000
£122,000
£233,833
4,758
1999
£101,500
£197,560
5,339
1998
£88,000
£173,486
4,796
1997
£76,500
£153,222
4,824
1996
£72,000
£148,299
4,376
1995
£70,000
£148,615
3,682
In cash terms the typical SM home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £437,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 194%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SM 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 (+20.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−4.9%
−4.9%
5 years (since 2021)
+0.6%
−3.6%
10 years (since 2016)
+2.2%
−1.0%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.6%
+0.9%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SM recorded 2,167 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 4,998 sales a year before the financial crisis and 2,598 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.
What homes rent for around SM
SM falls under Sutton, the local authority covering most of the SM area (parts fall under Merton and Reigate and Banstead, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,550 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,233 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,486, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sutton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £437,500 median sold price, £1,550 a month is £18,600 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Will SM prices rise from here?
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 17% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
The spread across the SM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SM area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every SM district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
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.