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Streatham market report SW16 4, London
The SW16 4 (Streatham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,062 registered sales in SW16 4 (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: 31 registered 2026 sales put the SW16 4 (London) median at £450,000, up 0% on five years earlier, with a mean of £437,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,240 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,062 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SW16 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW16 (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 SW16 4 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 a home in SW16 4 sells for
31 sales were registered in SW16 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £450,000. The mean works out at £437,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in SW16 4
A square metre of SW16 4 home has cost about £5,240 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SW16 4 runs 58% above it.
The price of a typical SW16 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £515,000 | £527,315 | 101 |
| 2024 | £470,000 | £499,707 | 85 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 86 |
| 2022 | £486,800 | £570,829 | 118 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 125 |
| 2020 | £430,000 | £557,934 | 75 |
| 2019 | £440,000 | £576,735 | 110 |
| 2018 | £430,000 | £573,198 | 99 |
| 2017 | £405,000 | £552,379 | 116 |
| 2016 | £413,000 | £577,791 | 135 |
| 2015 | £363,000 | £512,919 | 169 |
| 2014 | £315,000 | £446,883 | 155 |
| 2013 | £288,500 | £415,123 | 120 |
| 2012 | £248,800 | £366,203 | 106 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 98 |
| 2010 | £226,000 | £354,426 | 77 |
| 2009 | £214,500 | £344,811 | 64 |
| 2008 | £246,000 | £403,246 | 113 |
| 2007 | £248,900 | £422,204 | 256 |
| 2006 | £230,500 | £400,119 | 328 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 196 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 259 |
| 2003 | £197,000 | £362,922 | 223 |
| 2002 | £171,800 | £323,240 | 271 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 308 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 207 |
| 1999 | £114,200 | £227,595 | 251 |
| 1998 | £93,500 | £188,736 | 207 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 235 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 173 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 165 |
In cash terms the typical SW16 4 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 200%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SW16 4 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 (+22.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SW16 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.6% | −14.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SW16 4 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 256 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 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.
What tenants pay around SW16 4
The local authority for SW16 4 is Croydon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,572 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,256 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,654, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Croydon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,572 a month is £18,864 a year, which against the £450,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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 SW16 4 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW16 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SW16, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about SW16 4 (Streatham)
How much did a house sell for in SW16 4 (Streatham)?
Are property prices falling in SW16 4 (Streatham)?
Is SW16 4 (Streatham) a good place to buy a house?
Will SW16 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
What you could buy in SW16 now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SW16 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 SW
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SW area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SW area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SW16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW16 1 | £487,500 | 56 |
| SW16 2 | £475,000 | 97 |
| SW16 3 | £739,000 | 18 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SW16 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SW16 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW16 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW16 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW16 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SW16 4 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.