SE18 house prices are built from 29,142 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £192,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +24.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -11.1%.
Median price paid
£192,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+24.1%
Change in real terms
-11.1%
Median per m²
£2,662
HM Land Registry29,142 sales7,667 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SE18 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SE18 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £53,000 | £117,685 |
| 2000s | 10 | £164,995 | £300,572 |
| 2010s | 10 | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 2020s | 7 | £420,000 | £429,130 |
The highest yearly median on record for SE18 is £444,712 in 2022; the lowest is £49,775 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,000 to £410,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,244, so the real change over the whole record is +262.0% — about +4.24% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +24.1% in cash against -11.1% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Marmadon Road | 25 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| FLAT 1202 AXELL HOUSE, 41 Wellington Street | 17 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £415,000 |
| 27 Sladedale Road | 15 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 254 Shooters Hill Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £680,000 | £680,000 |
| 17 Coxwell Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £462,500 | £462,500 |
| 95 Sladedale Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| FLAT 103 WAREHOUSE COURT No 1 Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| FLAT 1301 NORTON HOUSE Duke of Wellington Avenue | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 46 Ankerdine Crescent | 9 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| 35 Sladedale Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 53 Benares Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| FLAT 502 AXELL HOUSE, 41 Wellington Street | 2 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £297,500 | £297,500 |
| 8 Brewery Road | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| FLAT 307 7 Windsor Square | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 39 Kentmere Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 9 Orissa Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| FLAT 43 GREENHILL COURT Greenhill Terrace | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 3 Brent Road | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| 33 Philimore Close | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £465,000 |
| FLAT 194 BUILDING 22 Cadogan Road | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| FLAT 13 UNION HOUSE, 11 Bunton Street | 27 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 11 Welton Road | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £474,995 | £474,995 |
| 1 Gunning Street | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £347,500 | £347,500 |
| 46 Benares Road | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £266,500 | £266,500 |
| 31 Ingledew Road | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £470,000 | £470,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to SE18 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Marmadon Road | £187,500 (2008) | £400,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 1202 AXELL HOUSE, 41 Wellington Street | £551,000 (2019) | £415,000 (2026) | -4.0% | -7.6% |
| 27 Sladedale Road | £48,000 (1998) | £365,000 (2026) | +7.5% | +4.8% |
| 95 Sladedale Road | £59,995 (1998) | £420,000 (2026) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| FLAT 103 WAREHOUSE COURT No 1 Street | £335,000 (2012) | £420,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| 17 Coxwell Road | £195,000 (2008) | £462,500 (2026) | +4.9% | +1.9% |
| 254 Shooters Hill Road | £420,000 (2017) | £680,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +1.9% |
| FLAT 1301 NORTON HOUSE Duke of Wellington Avenue | £650,000 (2019) | £500,000 (2026) | -3.7% | -7.3% |
| 46 Ankerdine Crescent | £67,995 (1996) | £420,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 35 Sladedale Road | £64,000 (1999) | £350,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| FLAT 502 AXELL HOUSE, 41 Wellington Street | £275,748 (2019) | £297,500 (2026) | +1.1% | -2.7% |
| 53 Benares Road | £117,000 (2001) | £480,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SE18 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 14,238 | 48.9% | £220,000 | £9,000 – £1,400,000 |
| Terraced | 12,425 | 42.6% | £173,000 | £2,500 – £1,400,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,116 | 7.3% | £204,000 | £18,000 – £1,318,500 |
| Detached | 363 | 1.2% | £265,000 | £500 – £1,100,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SE18
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 10,543 certificates cover SE18, and their median floor area is 69 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -9.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 69 m² | about 743 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 51 m² | about 549 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 87 m² | about 936 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 36.4% | 3,837 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 1.4% | 147 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SE18
14,423 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14,719 freehold — 49.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £220,000 and the median freehold sale £177,500 — a gap of -19.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 14,423 | 49.5% | £220,000 |
| Freehold | 14,719 | 50.5% | £177,500 |
| New build | 5,259 | 18.0% | £305,000 |
| Existing home | 23,883 | 82.0% | £176,250 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +73.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 2,483 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in SE18
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Greenwich, 58.7% of 147,149 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 528 | 0.4% |
| B | 35,559 | 24.2% |
| C | 50,316 | 34.2% |
| D | 44,687 | 30.4% |
| E | 13,302 | 9.0% |
| F | 2,124 | 1.4% |
| G | 633 | 0.4% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Greenwich at £1,967 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,541 for a one-bedroom home and £2,210 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £192,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.26% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SE18, 892 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 319 violent, 40 burglary, 50 vehicle-related and 182 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.3 times busier.
Against the 289,068 residents the 2021 census counted in Greenwich, that is 3.09 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around SE18
The 2021 census counted 289,068 residents in Greenwich across 114,051 households. 43.3% of those households own their home and 56.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a SE18 postcode: 18 primary, 2 secondary, 1 all-through, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through School | All-through | Voluntary aided school | 1,624 |
| Plumstead Manor School | Secondary | Community school | 1,413 |
| Plumcroft Primary School | Primary | Community school | 1,056 |
| Bannockburn Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 879 |
| Foxfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 666 |
| Ark Greenwich Free School | Secondary | Free schools | 615 |
| South Rise Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 508 |
| Conway Primary School | Primary | Community school | 430 |
| Cardwell Primary School | Primary | Community school | 423 |
| Timbercroft Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 363 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Woolwich Arsenal Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Woolwich Arsenal DLR Station | Metro or underground | 0.7 km |
| Woolwich Arsenal DLR Station | Metro or underground | 0.7 km |
| Woolwich Arsenal DLR | Tram | 0.7 km |
Section 09
How SE18 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SE18 sits above that national figure — +22.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,662 per square metre, across 7,667 of the 29,142 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £500 to £1,400,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
SE18 sits in Greenwich, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Greenwich at 12.0 times median local earnings of £38,128 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside SE18
- SE18 1£152,000 median
- SE18 2£170,000 median
- SE18 3£185,000 median
- SE18 4£189,950 median
- SE18 5£149,000 median
- SE18 6£340,000 median
- SE18 7£158,200 median
The closest districts
- DA163.2 km · £209,500
- SE34.0 km · £300,000
- E164.1 km · £265,000
- SE94.5 km · £217,500
- E64.9 km · £160,000
- SE105.0 km · £390,000
- DA155.1 km · £222,000
- DA75.5 km · £225,000
This district mostly covers London.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SE18?
The median price paid in SE18 across every sale on the register is £192,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in SE18?
29,142 sales are on record for SE18, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SE18 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +24.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -11.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SE18 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £444,712, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in SE18?
£2,662 per square metre, from the 7,667 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “SE18 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.