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Clapham market report SW4, London
The SW4 (Clapham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 22,055 registered sales in SW4 (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SW4 (London) sold for £555,000 in 2026, the median of 165 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £738,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,940 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 22,055 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district SW4 covering Clapham sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SW4 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 a home in SW4 sells for
In the SW4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £555,000, from 165 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £738,400, 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 SW4
A square metre of SW4 home has cost about £8,940 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SW4 trades 95% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SW4 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £555,000 | £555,000 | 165 |
| 2025 | £627,000 | £641,993 | 531 |
| 2024 | £640,000 | £680,451 | 527 |
| 2023 | £625,000 | £686,722 | 460 |
| 2022 | £655,000 | £768,062 | 573 |
| 2021 | £641,000 | £811,589 | 692 |
| 2020 | £612,500 | £794,731 | 469 |
| 2019 | £590,000 | £773,349 | 471 |
| 2018 | £620,000 | £826,472 | 453 |
| 2017 | £620,000 | £845,618 | 487 |
| 2016 | £600,000 | £839,406 | 493 |
| 2015 | £581,500 | £821,660 | 692 |
| 2014 | £567,500 | £805,098 | 667 |
| 2013 | £460,000 | £661,894 | 734 |
| 2012 | £410,000 | £603,469 | 775 |
| 2011 | £390,000 | £588,750 | 639 |
| 2010 | £375,000 | £588,097 | 613 |
| 2009 | £360,000 | £578,703 | 442 |
| 2008 | £356,500 | £584,379 | 421 |
| 2007 | £370,000 | £627,623 | 971 |
| 2006 | £305,000 | £529,441 | 1,059 |
| 2005 | £292,500 | £520,532 | 851 |
| 2004 | £260,000 | £472,211 | 828 |
| 2003 | £249,000 | £458,718 | 769 |
| 2002 | £241,500 | £454,380 | 925 |
| 2001 | £227,000 | £436,396 | 891 |
| 2000 | £200,000 | £392,500 | 956 |
| 1999 | £165,000 | £328,836 | 1,113 |
| 1998 | £138,400 | £279,370 | 860 |
| 1997 | £114,200 | £234,201 | 997 |
| 1996 | £92,000 | £194,024 | 901 |
| 1995 | £88,500 | £192,385 | 630 |
In cash terms the typical SW4 home went from £88,500 in 1995 to £555,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 188%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 34% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW4 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 1997 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 74% of the typed total. In 2021, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £2,050,000 against £557,500 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SW4
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 | £2,050,000 (2021) | – | 164 |
| Semi-detached | £1,891,100 | 13 | 978 |
| Terraced | £1,185,000 | 26 | 4,673 |
| Flats | £500,000 | 126 | 16,196 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.5% | −13.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.8% | −7.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.8% | −4.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 373 SW4 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 906 sales a year before the financial crisis and 451 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.
Rents around SW4
For renting purposes SW4 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 £555,000 median sold price, £2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
Reading the SW4 market
Among the 27 measurable districts of its area, SW4 ranks 22 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about SW4 (Clapham)
Are property prices falling in SW4 (Clapham)?
Is SW4 (Clapham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW4 (Clapham)?
What happens to SW4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 32% 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.
SW4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SW4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 112 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the SW4 median sold price.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SW prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SW area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SW4 ranks 17 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SW4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| SW4 9 | £800,000 | 32 |
How SW4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SW area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £555,000 | -13% |
| SW8 | £555,000 | -9% |
| SW19 | £555,000 | -15% |
Selling a home in SW4? 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 SW4'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.
Estate agents working SW4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SW4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.