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Brixton Hill market report SW2 4, London

The SW2 4 (Brixton Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,301 HM Land Registry entries for SW2 4 (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.

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

In short: 49 registered 2026 sales put the SW2 4 (London) median at £475,000, down 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £580,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,280 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,301 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

A postcode sector like SW2 4 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.

Today's SW2 4 prices, from the sold record

In the SW2 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £475,000, from 49 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £580,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

What a square metre costs in SW2 4

Measured by floor area, the last five years of SW2 4 sales average about £7,280 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.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SW2 4 sits 67% above the national market.

In cash terms the typical SW2 4 home went from £58,200 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 275%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2001 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−10.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

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

The register shows 49 SW2 4 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 279 sales a year before the financial crisis and 130 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.

The shape of the SW2 4 market

This is a thin market: 49 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. Against the SW2 district median, SW2 4 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.

Rents around SW2 4

SW2 4 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,882 a month here against £3,725 for four or more bedrooms.

Set against the £475,000 median sold price, £2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, a gross yield of 6.4%: 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.

Asked and answered: SW2 4 (Brixton Hill)

Are SW2 4 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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.

SW2's current homes for sale

Bedroom by bedroom: SW prices by size

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

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SW2's other sectors, each with its own report:

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

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Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW2 4. Free after a one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every SW2 4 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.

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.