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Streatham market report SW16 1, London
The SW16 1 (Streatham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,935 registered sales in SW16 1 (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: the typical home in SW16 1 (London) sold for £487,500 in 2026, the median of 56 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £632,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,935 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SW16 1 is a single group of streets within SW16 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SW16 1 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.
SW16 1 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 56 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SW16 1 home went for £487,500. The mean is £632,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
SW16 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SW16 1 at roughly £6,630 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SW16 1 runs 71% above it.
A typical SW16 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £487,500 | £487,500 | 56 |
| 2025 | £438,500 | £448,986 | 164 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 129 |
| 2023 | £460,000 | £505,428 | 123 |
| 2022 | £465,000 | £545,266 | 139 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 175 |
| 2020 | £453,500 | £588,426 | 126 |
| 2019 | £392,700 | £514,736 | 116 |
| 2018 | £427,500 | £569,866 | 122 |
| 2017 | £408,000 | £556,471 | 135 |
| 2016 | £390,000 | £545,614 | 144 |
| 2015 | £345,000 | £487,485 | 254 |
| 2014 | £351,000 | £497,955 | 205 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 193 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 146 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 140 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 120 |
| 2009 | £214,800 | £345,293 | 98 |
| 2008 | £215,500 | £353,250 | 90 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 278 |
| 2006 | £227,000 | £394,043 | 283 |
| 2005 | £186,200 | £331,361 | 204 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 254 |
| 2003 | £159,500 | £293,838 | 240 |
| 2002 | £138,000 | £259,646 | 269 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 289 |
| 2000 | £108,200 | £212,343 | 278 |
| 1999 | £81,800 | £163,023 | 300 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 247 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 261 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 197 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical SW16 1 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £487,500 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 353%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW16 1 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 1999 (+36.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.8%). 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) | +11.2% | +8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in SW16 1
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SW16 1 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 262 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around SW16 1
The local authority for SW16 1 is Lambeth, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,882 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,725, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Lambeth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £487,500 median sold price, £2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, a gross yield of 6.2%: 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.
Reading the SW16 1 market
This is a thin market: 56 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.
What people ask about SW16 1 (Streatham)
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What happens to SW16 1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in SW16 today
Turning to what is actually available: 525 homes on the market right now, from 14 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW16 district, not just SW16 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Becmead Avenue, London, SW16
- 124b Greyhound Lane, London, London
- Veronica Gardens, Streatham Vale, 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 SW16 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SW: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SW area, straight 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 | — | — | £1,050,000 | £1,797,500 (+71%) | £2,600,000 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £478,500 | £645,000 (+35%) | £850,000 (+32%) | £1,200,000 (+41%) | £1,800,000 (+50%) |
| Terraced | £535,000 | £685,000 (+28%) | £850,000 (+24%) | £1,210,000 (+42%) | £1,680,000 (+39%) |
| Flat | £428,000 | £590,000 (+38%) | £900,000 (+53%) | £1,850,000 (+106%) | £3,700,000 (+100%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SW area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SW16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SW16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW16 2 | £475,000 | 97 |
| SW16 3 | £739,000 | 18 |
| SW16 4 | £450,000 | 31 |
| SW16 5 | £502,500 | 70 |
| SW16 6 | £495,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full SW16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW16 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW16 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW16 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW16 1 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 SW16 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW16 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SW16 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.