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Wandsworth Town market report SW18, London
The standing SW18 (Wandsworth Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 46,339 HM Land Registry entries for SW18 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SW18 (London) home changed hands for £615,000 in 2026 (median of 374 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £773,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,550 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 46,339 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district SW18 covering Wandsworth Town, Southfields, Earlsfield sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SW18 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 SW18
The SW18 median stands at £615,000 for 2026, built from 374 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £773,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in SW18
A square metre of SW18 home has cost about £8,550 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SW18 116% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SW18 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £615,000 | £615,000 | 374 |
| 2025 | £635,800 | £651,004 | 1,176 |
| 2024 | £625,000 | £664,503 | 1,223 |
| 2023 | £625,000 | £686,722 | 1,055 |
| 2022 | £645,000 | £756,336 | 1,359 |
| 2021 | £625,000 | £791,331 | 1,652 |
| 2020 | £630,000 | £817,438 | 1,112 |
| 2019 | £601,800 | £788,816 | 1,215 |
| 2018 | £590,000 | £786,481 | 1,220 |
| 2017 | £633,000 | £863,348 | 1,005 |
| 2016 | £642,000 | £898,164 | 1,261 |
| 2015 | £550,000 | £777,150 | 1,565 |
| 2014 | £541,000 | £767,503 | 1,511 |
| 2013 | £475,000 | £683,478 | 1,726 |
| 2012 | £443,000 | £652,041 | 1,378 |
| 2011 | £410,000 | £618,942 | 1,247 |
| 2010 | £385,000 | £603,779 | 1,240 |
| 2009 | £350,000 | £562,628 | 1,062 |
| 2008 | £375,000 | £614,704 | 902 |
| 2007 | £360,000 | £610,660 | 2,009 |
| 2006 | £330,000 | £572,838 | 2,225 |
| 2005 | £304,100 | £541,175 | 1,790 |
| 2004 | £277,500 | £503,994 | 1,861 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 1,424 |
| 2002 | £246,600 | £463,976 | 1,938 |
| 2001 | £212,500 | £408,520 | 1,860 |
| 2000 | £189,000 | £370,913 | 1,635 |
| 1999 | £165,000 | £328,836 | 2,157 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 1,542 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 1,822 |
| 1996 | £92,000 | £194,024 | 1,520 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 1,273 |
In cash terms the typical SW18 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £615,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 221%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW18 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 (+32.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−6.8%). 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) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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, 63% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £2,305,000 against £525,000 for a flat, 4.4 times the price.
Median by property type, SW18
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 | £2,305,000 (2025) | – | 524 |
| Semi-detached | £1,500,000 | 19 | 2,487 |
| Terraced | £1,095,000 | 85 | 14,003 |
| Flats | £525,000 | 268 | 29,323 |
How many homes change hands in SW18
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 886 SW18 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 1,843 sales a year before the financial crisis and 1,037 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.
The rental side of SW18
For renting purposes SW18 sits in Wandsworth. The ONS average private rent there is £2,599 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £615,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,599 a month (£31,188 a year) works out at a 5.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
SW18 (Wandsworth Town): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SW18 (Wandsworth Town)?
Are property prices falling in SW18 (Wandsworth Town)?
Is SW18 (Wandsworth Town) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to SW18 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SW18 right now
Everything above is what homes in SW18 sold for. The live side of the market holds 269 homes at the moment, listed by 16 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the SW18 median sold price.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SW prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SW area. 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%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SW18 ranks 6 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.
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.
Inside SW18, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW18 1 | £562,500 | 89 |
| SW18 2 | £618,000 | 63 |
| SW18 3 | £707,500 | 90 |
| SW18 4 | £525,000 | 65 |
| SW18 5 | £700,000 | 67 |
How SW18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SW area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £615,000 | -2% |
| SW15 | £600,000 | -3% |
| SW17 | £585,000 | -1% |
| SW4 | £555,000 | -13% |
| SW8 | £555,000 | -9% |
| SW19 | £555,000 | -15% |
Thinking of selling in SW18? 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 SW18, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW18's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW18 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SW18.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW18 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW18 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.
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.