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Whitehall market report SW1A, London
The SW1A (Whitehall) house price history in full, 1995 to 2025, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 395 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW1A (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 recorded to September 2025; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2025 median for SW1A (London) is £1,765,000, from 12 registered sales, down 41% on five years earlier; the mean is £2,630,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £20,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 395 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SW1A is the postcode district covering Whitehall, Downing Street, Buckingham Palace in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SW1A 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 SW1A
12 sales were registered in SW1A in 2025, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £1,765,000. The mean works out at £2,630,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in SW1A
Per square metre, SW1A homes have averaged around £20,930 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SW1A trades 519% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SW1A home, 1995 to 2025
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | £1,765,000 | £1,807,207 | 12 |
| 2024 | £2,480,000 | £2,636,749 | 11 |
| 2023 | £5,930,000 | £6,515,622 | 34 |
| 2022 | £6,250,000 | £7,328,838 | 3 |
| 2021 | £2,350,000 | £2,975,403 | 5 |
| 2020 | £2,994,400 | £3,885,296 | 2 |
| 2019 | £6,617,500 | £8,673,959 | 4 |
| 2018 | £1,725,000 | £2,299,458 | 8 |
| 2017 | £3,275,000 | £4,466,771 | 10 |
| 2016 | £2,950,000 | £4,127,079 | 13 |
| 2015 | £2,850,000 | £4,027,050 | 13 |
| 2014 | £1,972,500 | £2,798,336 | 10 |
| 2013 | £1,625,000 | £2,338,213 | 13 |
| 2012 | £3,450,000 | £5,077,969 | 7 |
| 2011 | £1,752,000 | £2,644,846 | 7 |
| 2010 | £950,000 | £1,489,845 | 11 |
| 2009 | £720,000 | £1,157,406 | 13 |
| 2008 | £1,040,000 | £1,704,780 | 10 |
| 2007 | £580,000 | £983,842 | 16 |
| 2006 | £685,000 | £1,189,072 | 14 |
| 2005 | £670,000 | £1,192,330 | 10 |
| 2004 | £372,500 | £676,533 | 13 |
| 2003 | £655,000 | £1,206,669 | 18 |
| 2002 | £525,000 | £987,783 | 15 |
| 2001 | £395,000 | £759,367 | 19 |
| 2000 | £350,000 | £686,875 | 43 |
| 1999 | £325,000 | £647,708 | 14 |
| 1998 | £987,000 | £1,992,330 | 7 |
| 1997 | £277,500 | £569,097 | 24 |
| 1996 | £242,000 | £510,367 | 7 |
| 1995 | £200,000 | £434,769 | 9 |
In cash terms the typical SW1A home went from £200,000 in 1995 to £1,765,000 in 2025, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 306%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 79% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW1A 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 2019 (+283.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−67.1%). 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 2024) | −28.8% | −31.5% |
| 5 years (since 2020) | −10.0% | −14.2% |
| 10 years (since 2015) | −4.7% | −7.7% |
| 20 years (since 2005) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SW1A recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 19 sales a year before the financial crisis and 13 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.
The rental side of SW1A
The local authority for SW1A is Westminster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,517 a month here against £5,378 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £1,765,000 median purchase price, a rent of £3,163 a month (£37,956 a year) works out at a 2.2% 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.
What kind of market SW1A is
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW1A a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 27 measurable districts of its area, SW1A ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about SW1A (Whitehall)
How much did a house sell for in SW1A (Whitehall)?
Are property prices falling in SW1A (Whitehall)?
Is SW1A (Whitehall) a good place to buy a house?
Are SW1A prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 41% over five years in cash but down 55% 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 is for sale in SW1A right now
Everything above is what homes in SW1A sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 63% below the SW1A median sold price.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every SW1A 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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
SW1A ranks 27 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 SW1A, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1A 1 | £2,000,000 | 3 |
| SW1A 2 | £1,630,000 | 9 |
How SW1A 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 (this report) | £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% |
| SW19 | £555,000 | -15% |
Before you sell in SW1A: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1A, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW1A's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW1A sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual SW1A 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.