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Clapham market report SW4 8, London
The SW4 8 (Clapham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,008 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW4 8 (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 SW4 8 (London) is £607,500, from 24 registered sales, down 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £852,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,630 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,008 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SW4 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW4 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SW4 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.
SW4 8 sold prices: where the market stands
24 sales were registered in SW4 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £607,500. The mean works out at £852,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in SW4 8
Per square metre, SW4 8 homes have averaged around £7,630 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SW4 8 113% above the national figure.
The price of a typical SW4 8 home, 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 | £607,500 | £607,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £482,500 | £494,038 | 76 |
| 2024 | £543,000 | £577,321 | 65 |
| 2023 | £585,000 | £642,772 | 54 |
| 2022 | £540,000 | £633,212 | 81 |
| 2021 | £710,000 | £898,952 | 94 |
| 2020 | £520,000 | £674,711 | 69 |
| 2019 | £540,500 | £708,466 | 92 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 72 |
| 2017 | £549,500 | £749,463 | 62 |
| 2016 | £525,000 | £734,480 | 81 |
| 2015 | £485,000 | £685,305 | 88 |
| 2014 | £451,500 | £640,532 | 82 |
| 2013 | £385,000 | £553,977 | 124 |
| 2012 | £355,000 | £522,516 | 116 |
| 2011 | £335,000 | £505,721 | 83 |
| 2010 | £315,000 | £494,001 | 91 |
| 2009 | £280,000 | £450,102 | 59 |
| 2008 | £272,500 | £446,685 | 54 |
| 2007 | £332,000 | £563,164 | 119 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 169 |
| 2005 | £229,500 | £408,418 | 118 |
| 2004 | £226,000 | £410,460 | 118 |
| 2003 | £219,500 | £404,372 | 134 |
| 2002 | £208,000 | £391,350 | 152 |
| 2001 | £175,000 | £336,429 | 111 |
| 2000 | £168,500 | £330,681 | 120 |
| 1999 | £129,000 | £257,090 | 119 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 86 |
| 1997 | £89,000 | £182,521 | 125 |
| 1996 | £92,500 | £195,078 | 102 |
| 1995 | £69,200 | £150,430 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical SW4 8 home went from £69,200 in 1995 to £607,500 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 304%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW4 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 2021 (+36.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−23.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +25.9% | +23.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.1% | −7.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
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.
Sales activity in SW4 8
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in SW4 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 130 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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 SW4 8
SW4 8 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.
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 £607,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
How SW4 8 trades
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW4 8 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. Against the SW4 district median, SW4 8 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: SW4 8 (Clapham)
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What happens to SW4 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in SW4 now
The live side of the market holds 112 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW4 district, not just SW4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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 SW4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SW
Real sold prices by size across the SW area, straight 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%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 SW4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW4 0 | £560,000 | 26 |
| SW4 6 | £518,500 | 38 |
| SW4 7 | £515,000 | 45 |
| SW4 9 | £800,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full SW4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW4 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW4 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW4 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW4 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SW4 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW4 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SW4 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.