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University of the Arts market report SW1P, London
The standing SW1P (University of the Arts) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,090 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW1P (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for SW1P (London) is £675,000, from 46 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £828,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £13,760 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,090 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SW1P is the postcode district covering University of the Arts 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 SW1P 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
The SW1P median stands at £675,000 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £828,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in SW1P
The last five years of sales put SW1P at roughly £13,760 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 sits 137% above the national market.
SW1P's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £675,000 | £675,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £850,000 | £870,326 | 165 |
| 2024 | £865,000 | £919,673 | 141 |
| 2023 | £1,267,500 | £1,392,673 | 235 |
| 2022 | £1,135,000 | £1,330,917 | 227 |
| 2021 | £715,000 | £905,282 | 156 |
| 2020 | £846,200 | £1,097,962 | 82 |
| 2019 | £830,000 | £1,087,931 | 121 |
| 2018 | £975,000 | £1,299,693 | 111 |
| 2017 | £1,300,000 | £1,773,069 | 289 |
| 2016 | £1,327,400 | £1,857,046 | 354 |
| 2015 | £1,070,000 | £1,511,910 | 263 |
| 2014 | £1,062,500 | £1,507,342 | 318 |
| 2013 | £694,200 | £998,885 | 202 |
| 2012 | £700,000 | £1,030,313 | 199 |
| 2011 | £625,000 | £943,510 | 220 |
| 2010 | £580,000 | £909,589 | 246 |
| 2009 | £500,000 | £803,754 | 177 |
| 2008 | £500,000 | £819,606 | 198 |
| 2007 | £495,000 | £839,658 | 317 |
| 2006 | £490,000 | £850,577 | 507 |
| 2005 | £380,000 | £676,247 | 480 |
| 2004 | £315,000 | £572,102 | 269 |
| 2003 | £360,000 | £663,207 | 344 |
| 2002 | £315,000 | £592,670 | 274 |
| 2001 | £270,000 | £519,061 | 227 |
| 2000 | £287,500 | £564,219 | 384 |
| 1999 | £266,000 | £530,124 | 484 |
| 1998 | £205,000 | £413,807 | 270 |
| 1997 | £178,000 | £365,042 | 345 |
| 1996 | £135,000 | £284,709 | 227 |
| 1995 | £151,500 | £329,338 | 212 |
In cash terms the typical SW1P home went from £151,500 in 1995 to £675,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 105%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 64% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW1P 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 2022 (+58.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−31.8%). 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, 97% of the typed total. In 1997, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £232,500 against £170,000 for a flat, a 37% premium.
Median by property type, SW1P
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 | £232,500 (1997) | – | 6 |
| Terraced | £3,000,000 (2025) | – | 222 |
| Flats | £675,000 | 45 | 7,808 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.6% | −22.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −6.5% | −9.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 103 SW1P 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 350 sales a year before the financial crisis and 163 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.
Reading the SW1P market
This is a thin market: 103 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around SW1P
For renting purposes SW1P 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.
£3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, which against the £675,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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.
Common questions on SW1P (University of the Arts)
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What happens to SW1P prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SW1P's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SW1P sold for. The live side of the market holds 62 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 59% above the SW1P median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in SW: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SW area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
SW1P ranks 8 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.
Winners and losers across the SW area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SW1P, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SW1P 1 | £828,000 | 9 |
| SW1P 2 | £573,800 | 12 |
| SW1P 3 | £805,000 | 5 |
| SW1P 4 | £675,000 | 20 |
How SW1P 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in SW1P? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1P, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW1P shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW1P 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.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW1P. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SW1P 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.