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London market report SW1E
The SW1E (London) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 755 HM Land Registry entries for SW1E (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.
Covers registered sales to April 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 1 registered 2026 sales put the SW1E (London) median at £761,900, down 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £761,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £16,200 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 755 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district SW1E 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 SW1E 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 SW1E homes really sell for
1 sales were registered in SW1E in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £761,900. The mean works out at £761,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in SW1E
The last five years of sales put SW1E at roughly £16,200 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SW1E sits 167% above the national market.
A typical SW1E home, priced year by year (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 | £761,900 | £761,900 | 1 |
| 2025 | £950,000 | £972,717 | 11 |
| 2024 | £2,325,000 | £2,471,953 | 17 |
| 2023 | £1,809,200 | £1,987,869 | 30 |
| 2022 | £1,425,000 | £1,670,975 | 18 |
| 2021 | £818,000 | £1,035,694 | 13 |
| 2020 | £1,850,000 | £2,400,413 | 12 |
| 2019 | £1,237,500 | £1,622,066 | 14 |
| 2018 | £1,825,000 | £2,432,759 | 23 |
| 2017 | £1,450,000 | £1,977,654 | 27 |
| 2016 | £2,300,000 | £3,217,723 | 19 |
| 2015 | £1,041,400 | £1,471,498 | 70 |
| 2014 | £1,129,200 | £1,601,967 | 28 |
| 2013 | £1,010,000 | £1,453,289 | 16 |
| 2012 | £1,276,800 | £1,879,290 | 56 |
| 2011 | £1,085,900 | £1,639,291 | 28 |
| 2010 | £725,000 | £1,136,987 | 14 |
| 2009 | £655,000 | £1,052,918 | 9 |
| 2008 | £762,500 | £1,249,898 | 16 |
| 2007 | £705,000 | £1,195,876 | 22 |
| 2006 | £782,500 | £1,358,320 | 60 |
| 2005 | £492,400 | £876,274 | 88 |
| 2004 | £323,000 | £586,631 | 14 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 13 |
| 2002 | £385,000 | £724,374 | 11 |
| 2001 | £239,000 | £459,465 | 17 |
| 2000 | £195,500 | £383,669 | 10 |
| 1999 | £215,000 | £428,484 | 23 |
| 1998 | £167,000 | £337,101 | 19 |
| 1997 | £126,500 | £259,426 | 32 |
| 1996 | £110,000 | £231,985 | 14 |
| 1995 | £147,000 | £319,555 | 10 |
In cash terms the typical SW1E home went from £147,000 in 1995 to £761,900 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 138%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 76% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW1E 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 (+120.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−59.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 98% of the typed total.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £2,950,000 (2012) | – | 16 |
| Flats | £937,500 (2025) | – | 687 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.8% | −21.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −10.5% | −13.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.1% | −2.8% |
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.
Sales activity in SW1E
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in SW1E. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 29 sales a year before the financial crisis and 15 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.
What homes rent for around SW1E
The local authority for SW1E 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.
£3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, which against the £761,900 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.
How SW1E trades
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW1E 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.
SW1E (London): the questions that come up
Is SW1E (London) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW1E (London)?
Are property prices falling in SW1E (London)?
Are SW1E prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
SW1E's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SW1E sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 3 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 136% above the SW1E median sold price.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every SW1E 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SW1E ranks 10 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SW1E, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SW1E 5 | £761,900 | 1 |
| SW1E 6 | £1,187,500 | 6 |
How SW1E 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in SW1E? 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 SW1E, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW1E's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW1E 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 SW1E.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW1E already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SW1E sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.