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Wandsworth Town market report SW18 2, London
The SW18 2 (Wandsworth Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,728 registered sales in SW18 2 (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: a typical SW18 2 (London) home changed hands for £618,000 in 2026 (median of 63 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £773,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,620 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,728 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SW18 2 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 2 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 SW18 2
In the SW18 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £618,000, from 63 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £773,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SW18 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SW18 2 sales average about £8,620 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SW18 2 117% above the national figure.
A typical SW18 2 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 | £618,000 | £618,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £632,500 | £647,625 | 191 |
| 2024 | £585,000 | £621,975 | 190 |
| 2023 | £580,000 | £637,278 | 161 |
| 2022 | £600,000 | £703,568 | 215 |
| 2021 | £588,000 | £744,484 | 255 |
| 2020 | £595,000 | £772,025 | 149 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 144 |
| 2018 | £567,500 | £756,488 | 154 |
| 2017 | £580,000 | £791,062 | 121 |
| 2016 | £607,200 | £849,479 | 194 |
| 2015 | £550,000 | £777,150 | 207 |
| 2014 | £496,500 | £704,372 | 199 |
| 2013 | £425,000 | £611,533 | 257 |
| 2012 | £400,000 | £588,750 | 227 |
| 2011 | £400,000 | £603,846 | 213 |
| 2010 | £395,000 | £619,462 | 193 |
| 2009 | £400,000 | £643,003 | 183 |
| 2008 | £340,000 | £557,332 | 106 |
| 2007 | £350,000 | £593,697 | 389 |
| 2006 | £297,500 | £516,422 | 356 |
| 2005 | £261,200 | £464,831 | 280 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 287 |
| 2003 | £226,000 | £416,347 | 277 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 354 |
| 2001 | £194,200 | £373,340 | 332 |
| 2000 | £186,000 | £365,025 | 272 |
| 1999 | £156,500 | £311,896 | 537 |
| 1998 | £127,000 | £256,359 | 321 |
| 1997 | £112,500 | £230,715 | 384 |
| 1996 | £87,500 | £184,534 | 279 |
| 1995 | £88,100 | £191,516 | 238 |
In cash terms the typical SW18 2 home went from £88,100 in 1995 to £618,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 223%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW18 2 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 1997 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−4.5%). 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) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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 SW18 2
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 63 SW18 2 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 318 sales a year before the financial crisis and 164 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 SW18 2
SW18 2 falls under Wandsworth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,599 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,911 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,782 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £618,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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: SW18 2 (Wandsworth Town)
Are property prices falling in SW18 2 (Wandsworth Town)?
Is SW18 2 (Wandsworth Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW18 2 (Wandsworth Town)?
Where do SW18 2 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
SW18's current homes for sale
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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.
"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 SW18 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in SW
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SW area. 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%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SW18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SW18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW18 1 | £562,500 | 89 |
| 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 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW18 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW18 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW18 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SW18 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW18 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SW18 2 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.
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.