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University of the Arts market report SW1P 3, London
The standing SW1P 3 (University of the Arts) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 821 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SW1P 3 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 5 registered 2026 sales put the SW1P 3 (London) median at £805,000, down 30% on five years earlier, with a mean of £876,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £20,090 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 821 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SW1P 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW1P (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 SW1P 3 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 SW1P 3
The SW1P 3 median stands at £805,000 for 2026, built from 5 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £876,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SW1P 3
The last five years of sales put SW1P 3 at roughly £20,090 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, SW1P 3 sits 182% above the national market.
SW1P 3's median sold price, 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 | £805,000 | £805,000 | 5 |
| 2025 | £900,000 | £921,522 | 25 |
| 2024 | £1,537,500 | £1,634,678 | 9 |
| 2023 | £2,240,300 | £2,461,543 | 88 |
| 2022 | £1,680,000 | £1,969,992 | 93 |
| 2021 | £1,150,000 | £1,456,048 | 13 |
| 2020 | £925,000 | £1,200,207 | 13 |
| 2019 | £1,055,000 | £1,382,853 | 7 |
| 2018 | £1,465,000 | £1,952,873 | 15 |
| 2017 | £1,650,000 | £2,250,434 | 8 |
| 2016 | £1,205,000 | £1,685,807 | 18 |
| 2015 | £1,350,000 | £1,907,550 | 26 |
| 2014 | £1,300,000 | £1,844,277 | 21 |
| 2013 | £805,000 | £1,158,315 | 20 |
| 2012 | £1,000,000 | £1,471,875 | 21 |
| 2011 | £862,500 | £1,302,043 | 32 |
| 2010 | £670,000 | £1,050,733 | 17 |
| 2009 | £618,000 | £993,440 | 13 |
| 2008 | £611,000 | £1,001,558 | 9 |
| 2007 | £612,500 | £1,038,971 | 18 |
| 2006 | £545,000 | £946,050 | 173 |
| 2005 | £485,000 | £863,105 | 13 |
| 2004 | £466,800 | £847,800 | 14 |
| 2003 | £335,000 | £617,151 | 9 |
| 2002 | £345,000 | £649,115 | 25 |
| 2001 | £495,200 | £951,997 | 14 |
| 2000 | £385,000 | £755,563 | 56 |
| 1999 | £252,500 | £503,219 | 18 |
| 1998 | £164,500 | £332,055 | 4 |
| 1997 | £184,000 | £377,347 | 7 |
| 1996 | £180,000 | £379,612 | 11 |
| 1995 | £282,500 | £614,112 | 6 |
In cash terms the typical SW1P 3 home went from £282,500 in 1995 to £805,000 in 2026, roughly 2.8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 31%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 67% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW1P 3 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 2014 (+61.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−41.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SW1P 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.6% | −12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.9% | −11.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −4.0% | −7.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in SW1P 3
How many homes change hands
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 5 SW1P 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 44 sales a year recently, against 40 a year before 2008. 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 SW1P 3
For renting purposes SW1P 3 sits in Westminster. The ONS average private rent there is £3,163 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £2,517 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £5,378, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £805,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market SW1P 3 is
Only 5 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW1P 3 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. Against the SW1P district median, SW1P 3 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on SW1P 3 (University of the Arts)
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What people search before landing on SW1P 3 (University of the Arts)
To the person who searched property valuation in sw1p
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £805,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Where do SW1P 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 30% over five years in cash but down 45% 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 you could buy in SW1P now
This is what you could actually buy today: 62 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW1P district, not just SW1P 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 SW1P 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SW: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SW area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SW1P
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SW1P's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1P 1 | £828,000 | 9 |
| SW1P 2 | £573,800 | 12 |
| SW1P 4 | £675,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full SW1P district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW1P compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW1P 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1P 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW1P 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW1P 3 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 SW1P 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SW1P 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW1P 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SW1P 3 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.