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London market report SW1X
The standing SW1X (London) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,357 HM Land Registry entries for SW1X (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to June 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SW1X (London) home changed hands for £3,600,000 in 2026 (median of 15 registered sales, up 64% on five years earlier), with the mean at £4,579,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £20,870 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,357 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SW1X is a postcode district in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SW1X 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 SW1X
Take the 15 registered 2026 sales in SW1X and the middle price, the median, is £3,600,000. The mean lands at £4,579,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in SW1X
Per square metre, SW1X homes have averaged around £20,870 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SW1X runs 1163% above it.
A typical SW1X home, priced year by year (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 | £3,600,000 | £3,600,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £2,550,000 | £2,610,978 | 85 |
| 2024 | £2,740,000 | £2,913,183 | 98 |
| 2023 | £2,712,500 | £2,980,375 | 114 |
| 2022 | £2,737,500 | £3,210,031 | 115 |
| 2021 | £2,195,000 | £2,779,153 | 104 |
| 2020 | £2,600,000 | £3,373,554 | 73 |
| 2019 | £2,260,000 | £2,962,319 | 75 |
| 2018 | £2,825,000 | £3,765,778 | 53 |
| 2017 | £2,900,000 | £3,955,309 | 98 |
| 2016 | £2,543,500 | £3,558,382 | 74 |
| 2015 | £2,850,000 | £4,027,050 | 81 |
| 2014 | £3,000,000 | £4,256,024 | 146 |
| 2013 | £2,700,000 | £3,885,031 | 143 |
| 2012 | £2,306,200 | £3,394,438 | 136 |
| 2011 | £1,584,000 | £2,391,231 | 115 |
| 2010 | £1,350,000 | £2,117,148 | 123 |
| 2009 | £1,300,000 | £2,089,761 | 108 |
| 2008 | £1,225,000 | £2,008,034 | 126 |
| 2007 | £1,250,000 | £2,120,348 | 236 |
| 2006 | £945,000 | £1,640,399 | 280 |
| 2005 | £800,000 | £1,423,678 | 259 |
| 2004 | £783,500 | £1,422,989 | 264 |
| 2003 | £660,000 | £1,215,880 | 238 |
| 2002 | £750,000 | £1,411,119 | 337 |
| 2001 | £572,500 | £1,100,602 | 256 |
| 2000 | £512,500 | £1,005,781 | 312 |
| 1999 | £475,000 | £946,650 | 273 |
| 1998 | £400,000 | £807,429 | 236 |
| 1997 | £400,000 | £820,319 | 295 |
| 1996 | £319,500 | £673,811 | 260 |
| 1995 | £275,000 | £597,808 | 229 |
In cash terms the typical SW1X home went from £275,000 in 1995 to £3,600,000 in 2026, roughly 13 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 502%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2014, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2014 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW1X 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 2012 (+45.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−20.0%). 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) | +41.2% | +37.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +10.4% | +5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +6.9% | +4.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 82% of the typed total.
Median by property type, SW1X
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £6,250,000 | 6 | 953 |
| Flats | £1,550,000 | 9 | 4,364 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 63 SW1X 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 273 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around SW1X
The local authority for SW1X 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.
£3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, which against the £3,600,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 1.1%. 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.
The shape of the SW1X market
Only 63 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW1X 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. SW1X is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
What people ask about SW1X (London)
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 64% over five years in cash and up 30% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SW1X's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SW1X sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 52 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% below the SW1X median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 19% 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 SW1X 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SW
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%) |
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
SW1X ranks 1 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SW1X, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1X 0 | £3,600,000 | 7 |
| SW1X 7 | £1,550,000 | 1 |
| SW1X 8 | £5,388,800 | 4 |
| SW1X 9 | £5,400,000 | 3 |
How SW1X compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1X (this report) | £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 | £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 SW1X? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW1X, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW1X shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW1X sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual SW1X 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.