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Earl's Court market report SW5 9, London

The SW5 9 (Earl's Court) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,028 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW5 9 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the typical home in SW5 9 (London) sold for £795,000 in 2026, the median of 29 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £816,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,028 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

SW5 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW5 (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 SW5 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.

£795,0002026 median sold price
£11,650/m²5-year average per m²
-4%change over five years, cash
29homes sold, last 12 months
5.4%gross yield, estimated

SW5 9 sold prices: where the market stands

The 2026 median for SW5 9 is £795,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £816,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.

House prices per square metre in SW5 9

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SW5 9 costs about £11,650 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SW5 9 trades 179% above the country as a whole.

SW5 9's median sold price, 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.

Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
£500k£1.00M£1.50M£2M1995200020052010201520202026 1995: £121,500 at the time · £264,122 in today's money · 178 sales1996: £121,200 at the time · £255,605 in today's money · 216 sales1997: £150,000 at the time · £307,620 in today's money · 297 sales1998: £164,000 at the time · £331,046 in today's money · 231 sales1999: £200,000 at the time · £398,590 in today's money · 304 sales2000: £244,000 at the time · £478,850 in today's money · 260 sales2001: £280,000 at the time · £538,286 in today's money · 241 sales2002: £311,800 at the time · £586,649 in today's money · 302 sales2003: £300,000 at the time · £552,673 in today's money · 199 sales2004: £330,000 at the time · £599,344 in today's money · 207 sales2005: £326,500 at the time · £581,038 in today's money · 198 sales2006: £375,000 at the time · £650,952 in today's money · 247 sales2007: £405,300 at the time · £687,502 in today's money · 297 sales2008: £465,500 at the time · £763,053 in today's money · 104 sales2009: £460,000 at the time · £739,454 in today's money · 97 sales2010: £560,000 at the time · £878,224 in today's money · 153 sales2011: £515,000 at the time · £777,452 in today's money · 183 sales2012: £650,000 at the time · £956,719 in today's money · 121 sales2013: £706,000 at the time · £1,015,864 in today's money · 159 sales2014: £795,000 at the time · £1,127,846 in today's money · 155 sales2015: £805,000 at the time · £1,137,465 in today's money · 104 sales2016: £795,000 at the time · £1,112,213 in today's money · 81 sales2017: £781,500 at the time · £1,065,888 in today's money · 70 sales2018: £685,000 at the time · £913,118 in today's money · 55 sales2019: £750,000 at the time · £983,071 in today's money · 57 sales2020: £775,000 at the time · £1,005,579 in today's money · 55 sales2021: £825,000 at the time · £1,044,556 in today's money · 81 sales2022: £855,000 at the time · £1,002,585 in today's money · 72 sales2023: £903,900 at the time · £993,165 in today's money · 92 sales2024: £735,000 at the time · £781,456 in today's money · 101 sales2025: £731,200 at the time · £748,685 in today's money · 82 sales2026: £795,000 at the time · £795,000 in today's money · 29 sales
See this chart as a table
YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2026£795,000£795,00029
2025£731,200£748,68582
2024£735,000£781,456101
2023£903,900£993,16592
2022£855,000£1,002,58572
2021£825,000£1,044,55681
2020£775,000£1,005,57955
2019£750,000£983,07157
2018£685,000£913,11855
2017£781,500£1,065,88870
2016£795,000£1,112,21381
2015£805,000£1,137,465104
2014£795,000£1,127,846155
2013£706,000£1,015,864159
2012£650,000£956,719121
2011£515,000£777,452183
2010£560,000£878,224153
2009£460,000£739,45497
2008£465,500£763,053104
2007£405,300£687,502297
2006£375,000£650,952247
2005£326,500£581,038198
2004£330,000£599,344207
2003£300,000£552,673199
2002£311,800£586,649302
2001£280,000£538,286241
2000£244,000£478,850260
1999£200,000£398,590304
1998£164,000£331,046231
1997£150,000£307,620297
1996£121,200£255,605216
1995£121,500£264,122178

In cash terms the typical SW5 9 home went from £121,500 in 1995 to £795,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 201%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2015, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2015 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

Year-on-year change in the SW5 9 median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+50% -25% 0% 1996 · −0.2% on the year before1997 · +23.8% on the year before1998 · +9.3% on the year before1999 · +22.0% on the year before2000 · +22.0% on the year before2001 · +14.8% on the year before2002 · +11.4% on the year before2003 · −3.8% on the year before2004 · +10.0% on the year before2005 · −1.1% on the year before2006 · +14.9% on the year before2007 · +8.1% on the year before2008 · +14.9% on the year before2009 · −1.2% on the year before2010 · +21.7% on the year before2011 · −8.0% on the year before2012 · +26.2% on the year before2013 · +8.6% on the year before2014 · +12.6% on the year before2015 · +1.3% on the year before2016 · −1.2% on the year before2017 · −1.7% on the year before2018 · −12.3% on the year before2019 · +9.5% on the year before2020 · +3.3% on the year before2021 · +6.5% on the year before2022 · +3.6% on the year before2023 · +5.7% on the year before2024 · −18.7% on the year before2025 · −0.5% on the year before2026 · +8.7% on the year before200020052010201520202026

The strongest year on record here is 2012 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−18.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)+8.7%+6.2%
5 years (since 2021)−0.7%−5.3%
10 years (since 2016)0.0%−3.3%
20 years (since 2006)+3.8%+1.0%

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

Sales per year, counted

Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.

125250375500 1995: 178 sales1996: 216 sales1997: 297 sales1998: 231 sales1999: 304 sales2000: 260 sales2001: 241 sales2002: 302 sales2003: 199 sales2004: 207 sales2005: 198 sales2006: 247 sales2007: 297 sales2008: 104 sales2009: 97 sales2010: 153 sales2011: 183 sales2012: 121 sales2013: 159 sales2014: 155 sales2015: 104 sales2016: 81 sales2017: 70 sales2018: 55 sales2019: 57 sales2020: 55 sales2021: 81 sales2022: 72 sales2023: 92 sales2024: 101 sales2025: 82 sales2026: 29 sales1995200020052010201520202026

The register shows 29 SW5 9 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 244 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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.

Reading the SW5 9 market

Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW5 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SW5, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.

The rental side of SW5 9

For renting purposes SW5 9 sits in Kensington and Chelsea. The ONS average private rent there is £3,591 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £2,567 a month for a typical one-bed to £5,497 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

Average monthly rent by size, Kensington and Chelsea

ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.

1 bed: £2,567 a month£2,5671 bed2 bed: £3,335 a month£3,3352 bed3 bed: £3,959 a month£3,9593 bed4+ bed: £5,497 a month£5,4974+ bed

Set against the £795,000 median sold price, £3,591 a month is £43,092 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.

Common questions on SW5 9 (Earl's Court)

Is SW5 9 (Earl's Court) a good place to buy a house?
SW5 9 (Earl's Court) sold prices are down 4% over five years. This report weighs growth, affordability and volume against neighbouring areas using only recorded sales.
How much did a house sell for in SW5 9 (Earl's Court)?
Land Registry recorded 29 sales in SW5 9 (Earl's Court) in 2026, with a median sold price of £795,000. Every one is free to view at its exact address on the HomesIndex map.
Are property prices falling in SW5 9 (Earl's Court)?
In SW5 9 (Earl's Court) the median moved up 9% year on year; over five years it is down 4%. The full year-by-year table since 1995 is on this page.

Searches that land here, answered

To the person who searched home valuation sw5: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £795,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.

Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.

Where do SW5 9 prices go next?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

On the market in SW5 today

This is what you could actually buy today: 29 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.

These cover the whole SW5 district, not just SW5 9: live asking prices are collected per district.

£950,000Typical asking price now (SW5 district)
6 below what sold nearby7 in line with nearby sales7 above nearby sales9 well above nearby sales

21% 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 SW5 home for sale on the map →

Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.

What another bedroom costs in SW

The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SW area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.

Type1 bed2 bed3 bed4 bed5 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.

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 SW5

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW5, each linking to its own report:

SectorMedian (latest)Sales that year
SW5 0£1,430,00019

Zoom out to the full SW5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW5 compares with its neighbours.

Thinking of selling in SW5 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 SW5 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW5 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW5 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.

Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SW5 9.

Keep digging

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW5 9. Free after a one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every SW5 9 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.