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Brixton Hill market report SW2 1, London

The SW2 1 (Brixton Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,207 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW2 1 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the 2026 median for SW2 1 (London) is £541,000, from 36 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £574,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,207 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

A postcode sector like SW2 1 is a single group of streets within SW2 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

SW2 1 sold prices: where the market stands

In the SW2 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £541,000, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £574,200, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.

SW2 1 prices by floor area

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SW2 1 costs about £7,930 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, SW2 1 runs 90% above it.

In cash terms the typical SW2 1 home went from £62,100 in 1995 to £541,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 301%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2013 (+46.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−17.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.

How many homes change hands in SW2 1

SW2 1 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.

What kind of market SW2 1 is

Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW2 1 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 SW2 1

SW2 1 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,882 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,725, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

Set against the £541,000 median sold price, £2,527 a month is £30,324 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.

SW2 1 (Brixton Hill): the questions that come up

Are SW2 1 prices heading up or down?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.

On the market in SW2 today

What another bedroom costs in SW

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the SW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in SW2

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW2, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full SW2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW2 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in SW2 1: what the record supports

Go deeper

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW2 1. Free after a one click sign in.

See every individual SW2 1 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.

Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.