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The western part of Sutton Common market report SM3 8, Sutton
The standing SM3 8 (The western part of Sutton Common) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,129 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SM3 8 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SM3 8 (Sutton) home changed hands for £525,000 in 2026 (median of 37 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £516,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,760 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,129 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SM3 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SM3 (Sutton). 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 SM3 8 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 SM3 8
Across 37 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SM3 8 home went for £525,000. The mean is £516,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in SM3 8
The last five years of sales put SM3 8 at roughly £5,760 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SM3 8 trades 84% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SM3 8 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £525,000 | £525,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £555,000 | £568,272 | 121 |
| 2024 | £542,500 | £576,789 | 92 |
| 2023 | £555,200 | £610,029 | 106 |
| 2022 | £510,000 | £598,033 | 119 |
| 2021 | £492,500 | £623,569 | 146 |
| 2020 | £502,500 | £652,004 | 102 |
| 2019 | £455,000 | £596,396 | 117 |
| 2018 | £460,000 | £613,189 | 109 |
| 2017 | £485,000 | £661,491 | 94 |
| 2016 | £437,000 | £611,367 | 126 |
| 2015 | £397,500 | £561,668 | 142 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 124 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 101 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 96 |
| 2011 | £310,000 | £467,981 | 103 |
| 2010 | £285,000 | £446,953 | 100 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 86 |
| 2008 | £282,500 | £463,077 | 116 |
| 2007 | £286,000 | £485,136 | 208 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 188 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 138 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 154 |
| 2003 | £224,500 | £413,583 | 158 |
| 2002 | £189,500 | £356,543 | 180 |
| 2001 | £157,800 | £303,362 | 168 |
| 2000 | £159,500 | £313,019 | 152 |
| 1999 | £118,000 | £235,168 | 183 |
| 1998 | £116,000 | £234,154 | 141 |
| 1997 | £90,800 | £186,212 | 144 |
| 1996 | £86,000 | £181,370 | 157 |
| 1995 | £79,500 | £172,821 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical SM3 8 home went from £79,500 in 1995 to £525,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 204%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SM3 8 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 (+35.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.4% | −7.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in SM3 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 168 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 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 tenants pay around SM3 8
SM3 8 falls under Sutton, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,550 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,233 a month here against £2,486 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sutton
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £525,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,550 a month (£18,600 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
The shape of the SM3 8 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SM3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on SM3 8 (The western part of Sutton Common)
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Where do SM3 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SM3 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 31 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SM3 district, not just SM3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 SM3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in SM
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SM area. 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 | — | £574,000 | £775,000 (+35%) | £1,030,000 (+33%) | £1,382,500 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £385,000 | £505,000 (+31%) | £610,000 (+21%) | £738,750 (+21%) | £884,000 (+20%) |
| Terraced | £400,000 | £460,000 (+15%) | £555,000 (+21%) | £655,000 (+18%) | — |
| Flat | £264,000 | £330,000 (+25%) | £420,000 (+27%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SM area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SM3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SM3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SM3 9 | £554,800 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full SM3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SM3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SM3 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SM3 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SM3 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SM3 8 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 SM3 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SM3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SM3 8 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.
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.