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South Lambeth market report SW8 4, London
The SW8 4 (South Lambeth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,535 registered sales in SW8 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 18 registered 2026 sales put the SW8 4 (London) median at £466,200, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £533,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,980 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,535 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SW8 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SW8 (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 SW8 4 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 SW8 4 homes really sell for
Across 18 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SW8 4 home went for £466,200. The mean is £533,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SW8 4
The last five years of sales put SW8 4 at roughly £7,980 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SW8 4 trades 64% above the country as a whole.
A typical SW8 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £466,200 | £466,200 | 18 |
| 2025 | £487,500 | £499,158 | 59 |
| 2024 | £457,000 | £485,885 | 53 |
| 2023 | £532,500 | £585,087 | 48 |
| 2022 | £455,000 | £533,539 | 54 |
| 2021 | £460,000 | £582,419 | 47 |
| 2020 | £435,000 | £564,421 | 41 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 83 |
| 2018 | £560,000 | £746,491 | 67 |
| 2017 | £560,000 | £763,784 | 49 |
| 2016 | £532,500 | £744,973 | 120 |
| 2015 | £480,000 | £678,240 | 84 |
| 2014 | £450,000 | £638,404 | 117 |
| 2013 | £440,000 | £633,116 | 141 |
| 2012 | £367,500 | £540,914 | 106 |
| 2011 | £435,000 | £656,683 | 138 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 103 |
| 2009 | £335,000 | £538,515 | 63 |
| 2008 | £310,000 | £508,155 | 257 |
| 2007 | £382,500 | £648,827 | 266 |
| 2006 | £340,000 | £590,197 | 329 |
| 2005 | £327,000 | £581,928 | 269 |
| 2004 | £357,500 | £649,290 | 174 |
| 2003 | £322,000 | £593,202 | 269 |
| 2002 | £215,000 | £404,521 | 119 |
| 2001 | £195,000 | £374,878 | 103 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 81 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 85 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 49 |
| 1997 | £74,500 | £152,784 | 56 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 59 |
| 1995 | £49,200 | £106,953 | 28 |
In cash terms the typical SW8 4 home went from £49,200 in 1995 to £466,200 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 336%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 41% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SW8 4 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 2001 (+77.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−27.5%). 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) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.3% | −4.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
Sales activity in SW8 4
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 18 SW8 4 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 201 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market SW8 4 is
This is a thin market: 18 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. Against the SW8 district median, SW8 4 sits 16% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around SW8 4
For renting purposes SW8 4 sits in Wandsworth. The ONS average private rent there is £2,599 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,911 a month here against £3,782 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wandsworth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,599 a month is £31,188 a year, which against the £466,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.7%. 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.
Asked and answered: SW8 4 (South Lambeth)
Is SW8 4 (South Lambeth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SW8 4 (South Lambeth)?
Are property prices falling in SW8 4 (South Lambeth)?
What happens to SW8 4 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SW8 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 109 homes on the market right now, from 18 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW8 district, not just SW8 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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 SW8 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. 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%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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 SW8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SW8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW8 1 | £630,000 | 24 |
| SW8 2 | £487,500 | 44 |
| SW8 3 | £605,000 | 31 |
| SW8 5 | £931,800 | 4 |
Zoom out to the full SW8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW8 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW8 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW8 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW8 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SW8 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SW8 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW8 4 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.