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London market report SW7 3
The standing SW7 3 (London) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,838 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW7 3 (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: 14 registered 2026 sales put the SW7 3 (London) median at £1,590,000, down 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £1,904,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £17,300 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,838 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SW7 3 is a single group of streets within SW7 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SW7 3 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 SW7 3 sells for
The 2026 median for SW7 3 is £1,590,000, taken from 14 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £1,904,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
SW7 3 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SW7 3 at roughly £17,300 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, SW7 3 sits 458% above the national market.
The price of a typical SW7 3 home, 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 | £1,590,000 | £1,590,000 | 14 |
| 2025 | £1,850,000 | £1,894,239 | 41 |
| 2024 | £1,500,000 | £1,594,808 | 53 |
| 2023 | £1,837,500 | £2,018,964 | 58 |
| 2022 | £1,823,800 | £2,138,614 | 54 |
| 2021 | £1,725,000 | £2,184,073 | 53 |
| 2020 | £1,600,000 | £2,076,033 | 43 |
| 2019 | £1,661,500 | £2,177,829 | 44 |
| 2018 | £1,950,000 | £2,599,387 | 39 |
| 2017 | £1,725,000 | £2,352,727 | 48 |
| 2016 | £1,745,000 | £2,441,272 | 44 |
| 2015 | £2,050,000 | £2,896,650 | 56 |
| 2014 | £1,999,500 | £2,836,640 | 62 |
| 2013 | £1,700,000 | £2,446,130 | 85 |
| 2012 | £1,450,000 | £2,134,219 | 79 |
| 2011 | £1,100,000 | £1,660,577 | 86 |
| 2010 | £950,000 | £1,489,845 | 86 |
| 2009 | £872,500 | £1,402,551 | 56 |
| 2008 | £1,025,000 | £1,680,191 | 56 |
| 2007 | £850,000 | £1,441,837 | 135 |
| 2006 | £703,200 | £1,220,665 | 138 |
| 2005 | £710,000 | £1,263,514 | 122 |
| 2004 | £650,000 | £1,180,527 | 150 |
| 2003 | £560,000 | £1,031,656 | 112 |
| 2002 | £690,000 | £1,298,229 | 127 |
| 2001 | £562,500 | £1,081,378 | 110 |
| 2000 | £450,000 | £883,125 | 141 |
| 1999 | £364,600 | £726,629 | 143 |
| 1998 | £385,000 | £777,150 | 128 |
| 1997 | £350,000 | £717,779 | 159 |
| 1996 | £250,000 | £527,239 | 179 |
| 1995 | £230,000 | £499,985 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical SW7 3 home went from £230,000 in 1995 to £1,590,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 218%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2015. The market now sits about 45% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW7 3 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 (+40.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2003 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SW7 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.1% | −16.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.9% | −4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 14 SW7 3 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 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 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 SW7 3 is
This is a thin market: 14 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. 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. Within SW7, this sector trades 36% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around SW7 3
For renting purposes SW7 3 sits in Kensington and Chelsea. The ONS average private rent there is £3,591 a month (May 2026). 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 £1,590,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.7%. 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.
What people search before landing on SW7 3 (London)
These are the recorded searches for the wider SW7 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
To the person who searched home valuation sw7
: 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 £1,590,000 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.
What people ask about SW7 3 (London)
How much did a house sell for in SW7 3 (London)?
Are property prices falling in SW7 3 (London)?
Is SW7 3 (London) a good place to buy a house?
Are SW7 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SW7's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 90 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW7 district, not just SW7 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
10% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 SW7 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in SW
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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in SW7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW7 1 | £2,200,000 | 11 |
| SW7 2 | £5,950,000 | 5 |
| SW7 4 | £795,000 | 22 |
| SW7 5 | £970,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full SW7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW7 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SW7 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SW7 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SW7 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SW7 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SW7 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SW7 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual SW7 3 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.
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.