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London market report SW1W 8
The SW1W 8 (London) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,892 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SW1W 8 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for SW1W 8 (London) is £1,147,500, from 12 registered sales, down 37% on five years earlier; the mean is £1,664,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £19,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,892 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SW1W 8 is one sector of SW1W (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SW1W 8 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 buyers actually paid in SW1W 8
The 2026 median for SW1W 8 is £1,147,500, taken from 12 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £1,664,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in SW1W 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SW1W 8 costs about £19,610 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SW1W 8 runs 303% above it.
A typical SW1W 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £1,147,500 | £1,147,500 | 12 |
| 2025 | £1,450,000 | £1,484,674 | 61 |
| 2024 | £2,100,000 | £2,232,731 | 77 |
| 2023 | £1,625,000 | £1,785,478 | 53 |
| 2022 | £2,116,100 | £2,481,369 | 72 |
| 2021 | £1,807,500 | £2,288,528 | 66 |
| 2020 | £1,260,000 | £1,634,876 | 61 |
| 2019 | £2,450,000 | £3,211,364 | 67 |
| 2018 | £1,150,000 | £1,532,972 | 43 |
| 2017 | £1,050,000 | £1,432,095 | 63 |
| 2016 | £1,302,500 | £1,822,210 | 64 |
| 2015 | £894,000 | £1,263,222 | 78 |
| 2014 | £1,070,000 | £1,517,982 | 85 |
| 2013 | £1,071,200 | £1,541,350 | 112 |
| 2012 | £907,500 | £1,335,727 | 112 |
| 2011 | £895,000 | £1,351,106 | 121 |
| 2010 | £717,800 | £1,125,695 | 103 |
| 2009 | £611,200 | £982,509 | 88 |
| 2008 | £700,000 | £1,147,448 | 55 |
| 2007 | £655,000 | £1,111,062 | 123 |
| 2006 | £497,000 | £862,729 | 288 |
| 2005 | £604,500 | £1,075,766 | 142 |
| 2004 | £455,000 | £826,369 | 90 |
| 2003 | £450,000 | £829,009 | 71 |
| 2002 | £480,000 | £903,116 | 82 |
| 2001 | £487,500 | £937,194 | 112 |
| 2000 | £372,500 | £731,031 | 106 |
| 1999 | £360,000 | £717,461 | 153 |
| 1998 | £250,000 | £504,643 | 78 |
| 1997 | £275,000 | £563,970 | 105 |
| 1996 | £247,500 | £521,966 | 88 |
| 1995 | £210,000 | £456,508 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical SW1W 8 home went from £210,000 in 1995 to £1,147,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 151%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 64% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW1W 8 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 2019 (+113.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−48.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SW1W 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.9% | −22.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.7% | −12.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.3% | −4.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SW1W 8 recorded 12 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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 rental side of SW1W 8
The local authority for SW1W 8 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.
Set against the £1,147,500 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
The shape of the SW1W 8 market
This is a thin market: 12 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. 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. Within SW1W, this sector trades 32% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about SW1W 8 (London)
Are property prices falling in SW1W 8 (London)?
Is SW1W 8 (London) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW1W 8 (London)?
Will SW1W 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 37% over five years in cash but down 50% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in SW1W right now
Turning to what is actually available: 44 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW1W district, not just SW1W 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% 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.
"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 SW1W 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SW prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SW area, 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%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SW area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SW1W
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW1W, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1W 0 | £1,875,000 | 1 |
| SW1W 9 | £2,225,000 | 9 |
Zoom out to the full SW1W district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW1W compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SW1W 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1W 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW1W 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW1W 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SW1W 8.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SW1W 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SW1W 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.