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Clapham market report SW4 9, London
The standing SW4 9 (Clapham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,508 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW4 9 (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: 32 registered 2026 sales put the SW4 9 (London) median at £800,000, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £1,038,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £9,840 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,508 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SW4 9 is one sector of SW4 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SW4 9 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.
Today's SW4 9 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SW4 9 is £800,000, taken from 32 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £1,038,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
SW4 9 prices by floor area
Per square metre, SW4 9 homes have averaged around £9,840 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SW4 9 181% above the country at large.
SW4 9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £800,000 | £800,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £857,000 | £877,493 | 149 |
| 2024 | £925,000 | £983,465 | 167 |
| 2023 | £795,600 | £874,170 | 109 |
| 2022 | £845,000 | £990,859 | 143 |
| 2021 | £805,000 | £1,019,234 | 187 |
| 2020 | £705,800 | £915,790 | 152 |
| 2019 | £785,000 | £1,028,947 | 91 |
| 2018 | £750,000 | £999,764 | 91 |
| 2017 | £810,000 | £1,104,759 | 103 |
| 2016 | £755,000 | £1,056,252 | 97 |
| 2015 | £734,800 | £1,038,272 | 136 |
| 2014 | £667,500 | £946,965 | 138 |
| 2013 | £670,000 | £964,063 | 159 |
| 2012 | £500,000 | £735,938 | 172 |
| 2011 | £500,000 | £754,808 | 148 |
| 2010 | £499,800 | £783,815 | 171 |
| 2009 | £420,000 | £675,154 | 127 |
| 2008 | £435,000 | £713,057 | 110 |
| 2007 | £400,000 | £678,511 | 291 |
| 2006 | £390,000 | £676,990 | 267 |
| 2005 | £360,000 | £640,655 | 221 |
| 2004 | £325,000 | £590,263 | 196 |
| 2003 | £310,000 | £571,095 | 180 |
| 2002 | £300,000 | £564,447 | 223 |
| 2001 | £280,000 | £538,286 | 221 |
| 2000 | £250,000 | £490,625 | 193 |
| 1999 | £205,000 | £408,554 | 290 |
| 1998 | £173,000 | £349,213 | 247 |
| 1997 | £148,500 | £304,544 | 278 |
| 1996 | £120,000 | £253,075 | 239 |
| 1995 | £115,800 | £251,731 | 180 |
In cash terms the typical SW4 9 home went from £115,800 in 1995 to £800,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 218%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW4 9 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 2013 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−10.1%). 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) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SW4 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in SW4 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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 kind of market SW4 9 is
This is a thin market: 32 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the SW4 district median, SW4 9 sits 44% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around SW4 9
For renting purposes SW4 9 sits in Lambeth. The ONS average private rent there is £2,527 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £800,000 median sold price, £2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
SW4 9 (Clapham): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SW4 9 (Clapham)?
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Will SW4 9 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 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.
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 8 | £607,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full SW4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SW4 9? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SW4 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW4 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW4 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SW4 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SW4 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SW4 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual SW4 9 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.