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Wandsworth Town market report SW18 1, London
The SW18 1 (Wandsworth Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 11,207 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW18 1 (London) 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: the middle 2026 sale in SW18 1 (London) came in at £562,500, out of 89 registered, down 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £646,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,270 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 11,207 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SW18 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW18 (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 SW18 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.
What SW18 1 homes really sell for
Across 89 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SW18 1 home went for £562,500. The mean is £646,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in SW18 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SW18 1 sales average about £8,270 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SW18 1 runs 97% above it.
A typical SW18 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 | £562,500 | £562,500 | 89 |
| 2025 | £590,000 | £604,109 | 299 |
| 2024 | £595,000 | £632,607 | 305 |
| 2023 | £575,000 | £631,785 | 258 |
| 2022 | £585,000 | £685,979 | 345 |
| 2021 | £610,000 | £772,339 | 359 |
| 2020 | £600,000 | £778,512 | 316 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 365 |
| 2018 | £578,600 | £771,285 | 404 |
| 2017 | £697,500 | £951,320 | 256 |
| 2016 | £735,000 | £1,028,272 | 382 |
| 2015 | £575,000 | £812,475 | 442 |
| 2014 | £565,000 | £801,551 | 445 |
| 2013 | £502,500 | £723,047 | 550 |
| 2012 | £472,200 | £695,019 | 380 |
| 2011 | £430,000 | £649,135 | 269 |
| 2010 | £425,000 | £666,509 | 266 |
| 2009 | £385,000 | £618,891 | 183 |
| 2008 | £475,000 | £778,625 | 262 |
| 2007 | £402,000 | £681,904 | 475 |
| 2006 | £395,000 | £685,670 | 670 |
| 2005 | £390,000 | £694,043 | 460 |
| 2004 | £340,600 | £618,596 | 458 |
| 2003 | £267,000 | £491,879 | 241 |
| 2002 | £280,000 | £526,818 | 468 |
| 2001 | £260,000 | £499,837 | 397 |
| 2000 | £210,000 | £412,125 | 415 |
| 1999 | £176,200 | £351,157 | 402 |
| 1998 | £138,000 | £278,563 | 251 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 336 |
| 1996 | £110,500 | £233,040 | 276 |
| 1995 | £95,000 | £206,515 | 183 |
In cash terms the typical SW18 1 home went from £95,000 in 1995 to £562,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 45% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW18 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 2016 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.9%). 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) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.6% | −5.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in SW18 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.
SW18 1 recorded 89 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 448 sales a year before the financial crisis and 259 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.
Reading the SW18 1 market
Within SW18, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around SW18 1
The local authority for SW18 1 is Wandsworth, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,599 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,911 a month here against £3,782 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wandsworth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,599 a month is £31,188 a year, which against the £562,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. 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.
SW18 1 (Wandsworth Town): the questions that come up
Is SW18 1 (Wandsworth Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW18 1 (Wandsworth Town)?
Are property prices falling in SW18 1 (Wandsworth Town)?
Will SW18 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in SW18 now
Turning to what is actually available: 269 homes on the market right now, from 16 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW18 district, not just SW18 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 SW18 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SW prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the SW area, straight 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. 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.
SW area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SW18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SW18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW18 2 | £618,000 | 63 |
| SW18 3 | £707,500 | 90 |
| SW18 4 | £525,000 | 65 |
| SW18 5 | £700,000 | 67 |
Zoom out to the full SW18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SW18 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW18 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW18 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW18 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SW18 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SW18 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW18 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW18 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.