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Brixton market report SW9 8, London
The SW9 8 (Brixton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,460 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SW9 8 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SW9 8 (London) sold for £485,000 in 2026, the median of 21 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £632,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,340 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,460 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SW9 8 is one sector of SW9 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SW9 8 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.
The going rate for a home in SW9 8
Across 21 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SW9 8 home went for £485,000. The mean is £632,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in SW9 8
Per square metre, SW9 8 homes have averaged around £7,340 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SW9 8 sits 70% above the national market.
SW9 8'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £485,000 | £485,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 40 |
| 2024 | £491,200 | £522,247 | 38 |
| 2023 | £505,000 | £554,872 | 40 |
| 2022 | £507,500 | £595,102 | 62 |
| 2021 | £480,000 | £607,742 | 48 |
| 2020 | £470,000 | £609,835 | 27 |
| 2019 | £505,000 | £661,934 | 66 |
| 2018 | £485,000 | £646,514 | 81 |
| 2017 | £495,000 | £675,130 | 41 |
| 2016 | £435,000 | £608,569 | 44 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 37 |
| 2014 | £408,000 | £578,819 | 41 |
| 2013 | £335,000 | £482,032 | 154 |
| 2012 | £267,500 | £393,727 | 30 |
| 2011 | £247,500 | £373,630 | 23 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 23 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 21 |
| 2008 | £270,000 | £442,587 | 25 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 55 |
| 2006 | £210,200 | £364,880 | 62 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 45 |
| 2004 | £191,500 | £347,801 | 67 |
| 2003 | £197,500 | £363,843 | 32 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 54 |
| 2001 | £119,500 | £229,733 | 58 |
| 2000 | £128,000 | £251,200 | 39 |
| 1999 | £137,500 | £274,030 | 44 |
| 1998 | £92,500 | £186,718 | 50 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 33 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 33 |
| 1995 | £58,600 | £127,387 | 26 |
In cash terms the typical SW9 8 home went from £58,600 in 1995 to £485,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 281%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SW9 8 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 (+87.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−18.1%). 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) | −1.0% | −3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 21 sales completed in SW9 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 52 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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 SW9 8 is
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SW9 8 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 SW9 8
SW9 8 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£2,527 a month is £30,324 a year, which against the £485,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.3%. 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: SW9 8 (Brixton)
How much did a house sell for in SW9 8 (Brixton)?
Are property prices falling in SW9 8 (Brixton)?
Is SW9 8 (Brixton) a good place to buy a house?
Will SW9 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
What is for sale in SW9 right now
The live side of the market holds 40 homes at the moment, listed by 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SW9 district, not just SW9 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
43% 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" 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 SW9 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.
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%) |
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. 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.
SW area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SW9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SW9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW9 0 | £533,800 | 38 |
| SW9 6 | £431,200 | 22 |
| SW9 7 | £455,000 | 16 |
| SW9 9 | £500,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full SW9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SW9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SW9 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW9 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW9 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW9 8 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 SW9 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SW9 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SW9 8 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.
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.