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Brixton Hill market report SW2, London
The standing SW2 (Brixton Hill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 25,604 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SW2 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SW2 (London) is £520,800, from 230 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £589,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,500 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 25,604 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SW2 is the postcode district covering Brixton Hill, Streatham Hill in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SW2 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 SW2 homes really sell for
The SW2 median stands at £520,800 for 2026, built from 230 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £589,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SW2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SW2 sales average about £7,500 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 SW2 83% above the country at large.
A typical SW2 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 | £520,800 | £520,800 | 230 |
| 2025 | £535,000 | £547,793 | 676 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 664 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 600 |
| 2022 | £530,000 | £621,485 | 737 |
| 2021 | £526,500 | £666,617 | 869 |
| 2020 | £525,000 | £681,198 | 483 |
| 2019 | £500,000 | £655,380 | 621 |
| 2018 | £510,000 | £679,840 | 625 |
| 2017 | £500,000 | £681,950 | 719 |
| 2016 | £510,000 | £713,495 | 681 |
| 2015 | £445,000 | £628,785 | 768 |
| 2014 | £410,000 | £581,657 | 843 |
| 2013 | £340,000 | £489,226 | 893 |
| 2012 | £300,000 | £441,563 | 699 |
| 2011 | £275,100 | £415,295 | 680 |
| 2010 | £287,500 | £450,874 | 640 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 422 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 552 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 1,115 |
| 2006 | £229,500 | £398,383 | 1,263 |
| 2005 | £211,500 | £376,385 | 967 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 1,055 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 1,029 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 1,188 |
| 2001 | £162,000 | £311,437 | 1,151 |
| 2000 | £150,600 | £295,553 | 1,114 |
| 1999 | £114,000 | £227,196 | 1,086 |
| 1998 | £91,000 | £183,690 | 961 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 956 |
| 1996 | £62,500 | £131,810 | 712 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 605 |
In cash terms the typical SW2 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £520,800 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 280%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SW2 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 2000 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SW2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 71% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,140,000 against £450,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, SW2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £1,140,000 (2025) | – | 143 |
| Semi-detached | £1,000,000 | 14 | 1,522 |
| Terraced | £910,000 | 45 | 5,683 |
| Flats | £469,500 | 170 | 18,216 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SW2 recorded 486 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,110 sales a year before the financial crisis and 581 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 SW2 market
In its area's price order SW2 comes 25 of 27, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of SW2
SW2 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,882 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,725 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lambeth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, which against the £520,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.8%. 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.
Common questions on SW2 (Brixton Hill)
Are property prices falling in SW2 (Brixton Hill)?
Is SW2 (Brixton Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW2 (Brixton Hill)?
Where do SW2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SW2 now
Everything above is what homes in SW2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 208 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 23% below the SW2 median sold price.
48% 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SW2 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in SW: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SW area, from the Land Registry record. 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
SW2 ranks 4 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.
Five-year change in the median, SW area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SW2, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW2 1 | £541,000 | 36 |
| SW2 2 | £540,000 | 49 |
| SW2 3 | £534,500 | 54 |
| SW2 4 | £475,000 | 49 |
| SW2 5 | £521,900 | 42 |
How SW2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SW area, and SW2 itself, which ranks 25 of 27 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SW1X | £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% |
| SW2 (this report) | £520,800 | -1% |
Selling a home in SW2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SW2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every SW2 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.
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.