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Streatham market report SW16, London
The standing SW16 (Streatham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 40,508 HM Land Registry entries for SW16 (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SW16 (London) came in at £497,000, out of 343 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £559,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,410 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 40,508 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SW16 is a postcode district covering Streatham, Streatham Common, Norbury in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SW16 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 SW16
Across 343 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SW16 home went for £497,000. The mean is £559,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SW16
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SW16 sales average about £6,410 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SW16 sits 74% above the national market.
SW16'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 | £497,000 | £497,000 | 343 |
| 2025 | £467,500 | £478,679 | 978 |
| 2024 | £477,500 | £507,681 | 908 |
| 2023 | £486,800 | £534,874 | 822 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 1,014 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 1,226 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 813 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 858 |
| 2018 | £435,000 | £579,863 | 843 |
| 2017 | £440,000 | £600,116 | 919 |
| 2016 | £425,000 | £594,579 | 1,101 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 1,449 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 1,468 |
| 2013 | £280,000 | £402,892 | 1,373 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 1,064 |
| 2011 | £240,800 | £363,515 | 790 |
| 2010 | £245,500 | £385,007 | 744 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 571 |
| 2008 | £243,000 | £398,328 | 753 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 1,922 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 1,987 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 1,548 |
| 2004 | £198,000 | £359,607 | 1,791 |
| 2003 | £184,000 | £338,973 | 1,761 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 2,027 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 1,813 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 1,686 |
| 1999 | £93,500 | £186,341 | 1,984 |
| 1998 | £84,000 | £169,560 | 1,673 |
| 1997 | £71,500 | £146,632 | 1,713 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 1,406 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 1,160 |
In cash terms the typical SW16 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £497,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 281%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW16 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 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.3%). 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) | +6.3% | +3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £950,000 against £397,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, SW16
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £950,000 | 5 | 940 |
| Semi-detached | £877,500 | 40 | 4,379 |
| Terraced | £600,000 | 105 | 13,314 |
| Flats | £397,000 | 193 | 21,875 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 753 SW16 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 1,817 sales a year before the financial crisis and 813 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.
The shape of the SW16 market
Among the 27 measurable districts of its area, SW16 ranks 26 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around SW16
SW16 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,882 a month here against £3,725 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lambeth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, which against the £497,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. 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.
Asked and answered: SW16 (Streatham)
How much did a house sell for in SW16 (Streatham)?
Are property prices falling in SW16 (Streatham)?
Is SW16 (Streatham) a good place to buy a house?
Are SW16 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
What is for sale in SW16 right now
Everything above is what homes in SW16 sold for. The live side of the market holds 525 homes at the moment, listed by 14 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the SW16 median sold price.
38% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Becmead Avenue, London, SW16
- 124b Greyhound Lane, London, London
- Veronica Gardens, Streatham Vale, London
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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
SW16 ranks 2 of 27 in the SW 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.
Five-year change in the median, SW area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SW16, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW16 1 | £487,500 | 56 |
| 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 |
How SW16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SW area, and SW16 itself, which ranks 26 of 27 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1X | £3,600,000 | +64% |
| SW1A | £1,765,000 | -41% |
| SW1W | £1,700,000 | -17% |
| SW7 | £1,170,000 | -26% |
| SW3 | £1,100,000 | -27% |
| SW1Y | £1,037,500 | -7% |
| SW13 | £1,005,000 | -20% |
| SW10 | £872,400 | -19% |
| SW5 | £863,000 | -7% |
| SW14 | £785,000 | -18% |
| SW1E | £761,900 | -7% |
| SW6 | £755,000 | -11% |
| SW11 | £695,000 | -10% |
| SW20 | £685,000 | -1% |
| SW1P | £675,000 | -6% |
| SW1V | £644,000 | -14% |
| SW1H | £630,000 | -41% |
| SW12 | £623,500 | -11% |
| SW18 | £615,000 | -2% |
| SW15 | £600,000 | -3% |
| SW17 | £585,000 | -1% |
| SW4 | £555,000 | -13% |
| SW8 | £555,000 | -9% |
| SW16 (this report) | £497,000 | +1% |
Before you sell in SW16: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW16, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW16 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW16 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.
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Two maps carry on from here: every SW16 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.
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.