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between Vauxhall Bridge market report SW1V 3, London
The standing SW1V 3 (between Vauxhall Bridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,847 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW1V 3 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical SW1V 3 (London) home changed hands for £567,500 in 2026 (median of 15 registered sales, down 29% on five years earlier), with the mean at £699,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,847 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SW1V 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW1V (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 SW1V 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.
What a home in SW1V 3 sells for
In the SW1V 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £567,500, from 15 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £699,600, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
SW1V 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SW1V 3 sales average about £10,450 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SW1V 3 99% above the country at large.
SW1V 3'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £567,500 | £567,500 | 15 |
| 2025 | £605,000 | £619,467 | 48 |
| 2024 | £590,000 | £627,291 | 51 |
| 2023 | £585,000 | £642,772 | 35 |
| 2022 | £900,000 | £1,055,353 | 51 |
| 2021 | £800,000 | £1,012,903 | 59 |
| 2020 | £747,500 | £969,897 | 28 |
| 2019 | £575,000 | £753,687 | 39 |
| 2018 | £752,500 | £1,003,097 | 32 |
| 2017 | £625,000 | £852,437 | 43 |
| 2016 | £630,000 | £881,376 | 42 |
| 2015 | £571,800 | £807,953 | 58 |
| 2014 | £610,000 | £865,392 | 77 |
| 2013 | £475,000 | £683,478 | 101 |
| 2012 | £449,000 | £660,872 | 90 |
| 2011 | £450,000 | £679,327 | 71 |
| 2010 | £535,000 | £839,018 | 85 |
| 2009 | £390,000 | £626,928 | 55 |
| 2008 | £370,000 | £606,508 | 65 |
| 2007 | £380,000 | £644,586 | 135 |
| 2006 | £295,000 | £512,082 | 131 |
| 2005 | £261,000 | £464,475 | 100 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 146 |
| 2003 | £249,500 | £459,640 | 123 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 109 |
| 2001 | £272,500 | £523,867 | 145 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 135 |
| 1999 | £209,000 | £416,526 | 227 |
| 1998 | £139,000 | £280,581 | 171 |
| 1997 | £133,800 | £274,397 | 196 |
| 1996 | £92,500 | £195,078 | 103 |
| 1995 | £106,000 | £230,428 | 81 |
In cash terms the typical SW1V 3 home went from £106,000 in 1995 to £567,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 146%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 46% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW1V 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 1999 (+50.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−35.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −4.5% | −8.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.0% | −4.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 15 sales completed in SW1V 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 128 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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.
The shape of the SW1V 3 market
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW1V 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 SW1V district median, SW1V 3 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SW1V 3
SW1V 3 falls under Westminster, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £567,500 median purchase price, a rent of £3,163 a month (£37,956 a year) works out at a 6.7% 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.
Common questions on SW1V 3 (between Vauxhall Bridge)
How much did a house sell for in SW1V 3 (between Vauxhall Bridge)?
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Is SW1V 3 (between Vauxhall Bridge) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SW1V 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% 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.
On the market in SW1V today
The live side of the market holds 12 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW1V district, not just SW1V 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 8% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SW1V 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
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 | — | — | £852,750 | £1,211,000 (+42%) | £1,650,000 (+36%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £616,000 | £735,000 (+19%) | £962,500 (+31%) | £1,280,000 (+33%) |
| Terraced | £540,000 | £691,876 (+28%) | £867,500 (+25%) | £1,210,000 (+39%) | £1,605,071 (+33%) |
| Flat | £415,000 | £545,000 (+31%) | £800,000 (+47%) | £1,550,000 (+94%) | £3,200,000 (+106%) |
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 SW1V
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SW1V's other sectors, each with its own report:
Zoom out to the full SW1V district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW1V compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SW1V 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1V 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW1V 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW1V 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW1V 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW1V 3 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.