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Brixton market report SW9, London
The SW9 (Brixton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 15,022 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SW9 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SW9 (London) sold for £472,500 in 2026, the median of 134 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £557,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,900 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 15,022 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district SW9 covering Brixton, Stockwell sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SW9 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 buyers actually paid in SW9
Take the 134 registered 2026 sales in SW9 and the middle price, the median, is £472,500. The mean lands at £557,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
SW9 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in SW9 have sold for about £7,900 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SW9 runs 66% above it.
The price of a typical SW9 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £472,500 | £472,500 | 134 |
| 2025 | £510,000 | £522,196 | 414 |
| 2024 | £526,200 | £559,459 | 406 |
| 2023 | £518,000 | £569,156 | 365 |
| 2022 | £525,900 | £616,678 | 548 |
| 2021 | £525,000 | £664,718 | 581 |
| 2020 | £504,000 | £653,950 | 383 |
| 2019 | £475,000 | £622,611 | 337 |
| 2018 | £490,000 | £653,179 | 382 |
| 2017 | £475,000 | £647,852 | 433 |
| 2016 | £500,000 | £699,505 | 698 |
| 2015 | £472,500 | £667,643 | 476 |
| 2014 | £402,000 | £570,307 | 636 |
| 2013 | £342,000 | £492,104 | 704 |
| 2012 | £315,000 | £463,641 | 403 |
| 2011 | £309,000 | £466,471 | 381 |
| 2010 | £274,800 | £430,957 | 332 |
| 2009 | £265,000 | £425,990 | 243 |
| 2008 | £266,500 | £436,850 | 320 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 700 |
| 2006 | £246,600 | £428,066 | 698 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 484 |
| 2004 | £214,800 | £390,119 | 587 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 438 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 553 |
| 2001 | £173,400 | £333,353 | 505 |
| 2000 | £171,000 | £335,588 | 488 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 538 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 543 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 619 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 367 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 326 |
In cash terms the typical SW9 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £472,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 234%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SW9 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 2000 (+31.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 80% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £980,000 against £492,500 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SW9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £980,000 (2022) | – | 30 |
| Semi-detached | £1,272,500 (2025) | – | 331 |
| Terraced | £955,000 | 19 | 2,613 |
| Flats | £450,000 | 115 | 11,982 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.4% | −9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.1% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in SW9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 290 sales completed in SW9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 557 sales a year before the financial crisis and 373 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.
Rents around SW9
SW9 falls under Lambeth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,527 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,882 a month here against £3,725 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lambeth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £472,500 median purchase price, a rent of £2,527 a month (£30,324 a year) works out at a 6.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market SW9 is
SW9 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What people ask about SW9 (Brixton)
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What happens to SW9 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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.
SW9's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SW9 sold for. The live side of the market holds 40 homes at the moment, listed by 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the SW9 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 43% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 SW9 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
Real sold prices by size across the SW area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
SW9 ranks 14 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SW9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SW9 0 | £533,800 | 38 |
| SW9 6 | £431,200 | 22 |
| SW9 7 | £455,000 | 16 |
| SW9 8 | £485,000 | 21 |
| SW9 9 | £500,000 | 37 |
How SW9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SW area, and SW9 itself, which ranks 27 of 27 by median price:
| 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 | £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% |
| SW9 (this report) | £472,500 | -10% |
Thinking of selling in SW9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SW9, open the average prices map and zoom from the SW9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SW9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual SW9 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.
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.