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University of the Arts market report SW1P 4, London
The SW1P 4 (University of the Arts) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,913 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW1P 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 20 registered 2026 sales put the SW1P 4 (London) median at £675,000, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £746,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,600 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,913 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SW1P 4 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 4 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 SW1P 4 homes really sell for
Take the 20 registered 2026 sales in SW1P 4 and the middle price, the median, is £675,000. The mean lands at £746,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SW1P 4
A square metre of SW1P 4 home has cost about £11,600 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SW1P 4 137% above the national figure.
SW1P 4's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £675,000 | £675,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £800,000 | £819,130 | 73 |
| 2024 | £650,000 | £691,084 | 69 |
| 2023 | £702,500 | £771,876 | 70 |
| 2022 | £740,000 | £867,734 | 71 |
| 2021 | £622,500 | £788,165 | 76 |
| 2020 | £730,000 | £947,190 | 39 |
| 2019 | £715,000 | £937,194 | 63 |
| 2018 | £717,500 | £956,441 | 44 |
| 2017 | £1,347,900 | £1,838,400 | 188 |
| 2016 | £1,764,000 | £2,467,853 | 259 |
| 2015 | £947,500 | £1,338,818 | 124 |
| 2014 | £687,500 | £975,339 | 97 |
| 2013 | £635,000 | £913,702 | 107 |
| 2012 | £567,500 | £835,289 | 102 |
| 2011 | £548,500 | £828,024 | 106 |
| 2010 | £495,000 | £776,287 | 119 |
| 2009 | £437,500 | £703,285 | 90 |
| 2008 | £405,000 | £663,881 | 80 |
| 2007 | £433,600 | £735,506 | 156 |
| 2006 | £375,000 | £650,952 | 206 |
| 2005 | £363,800 | £647,417 | 252 |
| 2004 | £275,000 | £499,454 | 152 |
| 2003 | £365,000 | £672,419 | 252 |
| 2002 | £290,000 | £545,632 | 137 |
| 2001 | £237,500 | £456,582 | 108 |
| 2000 | £235,000 | £461,188 | 193 |
| 1999 | £224,000 | £446,420 | 196 |
| 1998 | £190,000 | £383,529 | 159 |
| 1997 | £125,000 | £256,350 | 144 |
| 1996 | £86,200 | £181,792 | 98 |
| 1995 | £87,500 | £190,212 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical SW1P 4 home went from £87,500 in 1995 to £675,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 255%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 73% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SW1P 4 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 (+86.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−46.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.6% | −17.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −9.2% | −12.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SW1P 4
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in SW1P 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How SW1P 4 trades
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW1P 4 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.
The rental side of SW1P 4
The local authority for SW1P 4 is Westminster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £675,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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.
Asked and answered: SW1P 4 (University of the Arts)
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Are SW1P 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What you could buy in SW1P now
The live side of the market holds 62 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW1P district, not just SW1P 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SW1P 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SW: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SW area, straight 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%) |
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.
SW area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 3 | £805,000 | 5 |
Zoom out to the full SW1P district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW1P compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW1P 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1P 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW1P 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW1P 4 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 SW1P 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW1P 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW1P 4 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.