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Earl's Court market report SW5, London
The standing SW5 (Earl's Court) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,930 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW5 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SW5 (London) came in at £863,000, out of 48 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £1,088,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,990 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,930 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SW5 is the postcode district covering Earl's Court 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 SW5 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 SW5 homes really sell for
The SW5 median stands at £863,000 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £1,088,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in SW5
The last five years of sales put SW5 at roughly £12,990 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SW5 sits 203% above the national market.
SW5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £863,000 | £863,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £820,000 | £839,609 | 155 |
| 2024 | £867,000 | £921,799 | 176 |
| 2023 | £955,000 | £1,049,312 | 184 |
| 2022 | £1,000,000 | £1,172,614 | 165 |
| 2021 | £925,000 | £1,171,169 | 178 |
| 2020 | £930,000 | £1,206,694 | 113 |
| 2019 | £800,000 | £1,048,609 | 107 |
| 2018 | £845,000 | £1,126,401 | 112 |
| 2017 | £940,000 | £1,282,066 | 138 |
| 2016 | £930,000 | £1,301,079 | 161 |
| 2015 | £955,200 | £1,349,698 | 214 |
| 2014 | £920,900 | £1,306,458 | 289 |
| 2013 | £870,000 | £1,251,843 | 297 |
| 2012 | £782,500 | £1,151,742 | 236 |
| 2011 | £600,000 | £905,769 | 322 |
| 2010 | £670,000 | £1,050,733 | 292 |
| 2009 | £586,000 | £942,000 | 215 |
| 2008 | £550,000 | £901,566 | 207 |
| 2007 | £480,000 | £814,214 | 511 |
| 2006 | £435,000 | £755,104 | 468 |
| 2005 | £375,000 | £667,349 | 375 |
| 2004 | £370,000 | £671,992 | 417 |
| 2003 | £320,000 | £589,518 | 354 |
| 2002 | £345,000 | £649,115 | 535 |
| 2001 | £313,800 | £603,264 | 470 |
| 2000 | £287,500 | £564,219 | 516 |
| 1999 | £245,000 | £488,272 | 629 |
| 1998 | £195,000 | £393,621 | 505 |
| 1997 | £180,000 | £369,144 | 613 |
| 1996 | £154,000 | £324,779 | 543 |
| 1995 | £140,000 | £304,338 | 385 |
In cash terms the typical SW5 home went from £140,000 in 1995 to £863,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 184%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2015, and today's median remains roughly 36% under it: a 2015 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW5 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 2012 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.7% | −4.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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, 93% of the typed total.
Median by property type, SW5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £267,500 (1999) | – | 11 |
| Terraced | £1,475,000 (2025) | – | 662 |
| Flats | £843,800 | 44 | 9,210 |
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 101 sales completed in SW5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 456 sales a year before the financial crisis and 146 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.
The shape of the SW5 market
Only 101 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around SW5
SW5 falls under Kensington and Chelsea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,591 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £2,567 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £5,497, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Kensington and Chelsea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£3,591 a month is £43,092 a year, which against the £863,000 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.
Asked and answered: SW5 (Earl's Court)
How much did a house sell for in SW5 (Earl's Court)?
Are property prices falling in SW5 (Earl's Court)?
Is SW5 (Earl's Court) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SW5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
SW5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SW5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 29 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the SW5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Warwick Mansions, Cromwell Crescent, London, Greater London, SW5, London
- Old Brompton Road, London
- Coleherne Mansions, 228-230 Old Brompton Road, London
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SW5 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SW5 ranks 9 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SW5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SW5 0 | £1,430,000 | 19 |
| SW5 9 | £795,000 | 29 |
How SW5 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 (this report) | £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% |
| SW19 | £555,000 | -15% |
Selling a home in SW5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SW5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SW5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SW5 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.