SE8 house prices are built from 11,047 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -6.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -33.1%.
Median price paid
£250,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-6.6%
Change in real terms
-33.1%
Median per m²
£4,081
HM Land Registry11,047 sales3,291 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SE8 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SE8 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 | £176,500 | £321,531 |
| 2010s | 10 | £330,000 | £465,300 |
| 2020s | 7 | £405,000 | £413,804 |
The highest yearly median on record for SE8 is £493,500 in 2017; the lowest is £43,995 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £43,995 to £385,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,690, so the real change over the whole record is +294.1% — about +4.52% 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: -6.6% in cash against -33.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Greenland Mews | 17 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 8 Wharf Street | 10 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £750,000 | £750,000 |
| 33 Alloa Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £815,000 | £815,000 |
| 15 Watsons Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| APARTMENT 20 DREW HOUSE, 21 Wharf Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £464,000 | £464,000 |
| 41 Bruford Court | 4 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £362,500 | £362,500 |
| 86 John Silkin Lane | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| FLAT 79 HAZELWOOD HOUSE Evelyn Street | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| FLAT 20 HOLDEN HOUSE Deptford Church Street | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £302,000 | £302,000 |
| 29 Glenville Grove | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 66 Rolt Street | 21 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £339,700 | £339,700 |
| 14 Clandon Street | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £745,000 | £745,000 |
| 67B Etta Street | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| FLAT 12.07 ARAGON TOWER George Beard Road | 11 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| FLAT 502 the CRESCENT, 2 Seager Place | 11 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| THE OLD WORKSHOP COTTAGE, 7 Tanners Hill | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
| FLAT 20 NEMUS APARTMENTS, 21 – 43 Bush Road | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| FLAT 63 KINGWOOD APARTMENTS, 31 Waterline Way | 6 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 20 Whidborne Close | 5 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 51 Cranbrook Road | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £753,000 | £753,000 |
| 25 Basevi Way | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £807,000 | £807,000 |
| 62 Croft Street | 30 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £611,005 | £611,005 |
| 17 Czar Street | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| FLAT 59 CORBIDGE COURT Glaisher Street | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 20 Lind Street | 27 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £703,000 | £703,000 |
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 SE8 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Greenland Mews | £375,000 (2024) | £365,000 (2026) | -1.3% | -3.8% |
| 8 Wharf Street | £552,500 (2014) | £750,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.5% |
| APARTMENT 20 DREW HOUSE, 21 Wharf Street | £345,000 (2014) | £464,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
| 33 Alloa Road | £290,000 (2006) | £815,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 15 Watsons Street | £76,000 (1998) | £500,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 41 Bruford Court | £216,000 (2004) | £362,500 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 86 John Silkin Lane | £159,950 (2003) | £375,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| FLAT 20 HOLDEN HOUSE Deptford Church Street | £117,000 (2004) | £302,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 29 Glenville Grove | £38,950 (1997) | £255,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| FLAT 79 HAZELWOOD HOUSE Evelyn Street | £217,500 (2008) | £315,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 66 Rolt Street | £280,000 (2017) | £339,700 (2026) | +2.2% | -1.3% |
| 14 Clandon Street | £670,000 (2023) | £745,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SE8 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 | 8,950 | 81.0% | £250,000 | £1,800 – £1,175,000 |
| Terraced | 1,916 | 17.3% | £250,000 | £6,560 – £1,395,000 |
| Semi-detached | 146 | 1.3% | £210,000 | £25,000 – £1,387,500 |
| Detached | 35 | 0.3% | £300,000 | £12,500 – £1,250,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SE8
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 7,571 certificates cover SE8, and their median floor area is 66 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -13.2%. 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 | 66 m² | about 710 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 50 m² | about 538 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 80 m² | about 861 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 40.6% | 3,072 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 0.6% | 48 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SE8
9,055 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1,992 freehold — 82.0% 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 £250,000 and the median freehold sale £252,500 — a gap of +1.0%. 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 | 9,055 | 82.0% | £250,000 |
| Freehold | 1,992 | 18.0% | £252,500 |
| New build | 2,959 | 26.8% | £337,300 |
| Existing home | 8,088 | 73.2% | £225,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +49.9%. 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 841 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 SE8
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 £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.44% 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 SE8, 989 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 297 violent, 44 burglary, 24 vehicle-related and 247 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.9 times busier.
Against the 289,068 residents the 2021 census counted in Greenwich, that is 3.42 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 SE8
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.
10 state and independent schools have a SE8 postcode: 8 primary, 2 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tidemill Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 427 |
| Ashmead Primary School | Primary | Community school | 390 |
| Deptford Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 217 |
| Grinling Gibbons Primary School | Primary | Community school | 208 |
| St Stephen's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 186 |
| Twin Oaks Primary School | Primary | Community school | 176 |
| Oak Gardens Primary School | Primary | Community school | 166 |
| Rachel McMillan Nursery School and Children's Centre | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 123 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 122 |
| Clyde Nursery School. | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 72 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Deptford Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| New Cross Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| New Cross ELL Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Masthouse Terrace Pier | Ferry | 0.8 km |
Section 09
How SE8 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SE8 sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,081 per square metre, across 3,291 of the 11,047 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 £1,800 to £1,395,000. 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.
SE8 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 SE8
The closest districts
- SE102.1 km · £390,000
- SE162.3 km · £250,000
- SE42.4 km · £235,000
- SE152.7 km · £250,000
- E142.8 km · £320,000
- SE132.8 km · £227,500
- E1W3.7 km · £327,500
- SE33.7 km · £300,000
This district mostly covers London.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SE8?
The median price paid in SE8 across every sale on the register is £250,000. 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 SE8?
11,047 sales are on record for SE8, the most recent completing on 17 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SE8 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -6.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -33.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SE8 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £493,500, set in 2017. 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 SE8?
£4,081 per square metre, from the 3,291 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 17 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, “SE8 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.