SM1 house prices are built from 23,423 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £200,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +24.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.8%.
Median price paid
£200,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+24.5%
Change in real terms
-10.8%
Median per m²
£2,982
HM Land Registry23,423 sales5,636 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SM1 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SM1 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 | £69,000 | £153,213 |
| 2000s | 10 | £185,000 | £337,016 |
| 2010s | 10 | £267,000 | £376,470 |
| 2020s | 7 | £435,000 | £444,457 |
The highest yearly median on record for SM1 is £450,000 in 2025; the lowest is £63,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £63,000 to £417,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £139,890, so the real change over the whole record is +198.1% — about +3.59% 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: +24.5% in cash against -10.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69A St Albans Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 34A St James Avenue | 16 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 74A Waverley Avenue | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £490,000 | £490,000 |
| 20 Lymescote Gardens | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 111 Gander Green Lane | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
| 33 Orchard Way | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £546,001 | £546,001 |
| 26 Jeffs Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| FLAT 2 WESTMORLAND COURT Grennell Road | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 20 Princes Street | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £455,000 | £455,000 |
| 41 Beulah Road | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 8 Antrobus Close | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 30 Kirk Rise | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 260 Carshalton Road | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 119 Gander Green Lane | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £679,000 | £679,000 |
| FLAT 11 GREBE COURT Sandpiper Road | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £328,000 | £328,000 |
| FLAT 6 OLD MARKET COURT, 3 Crown Road | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 39 Farmington Avenue | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| FLAT 164 ASPECTS, 1 Throwley Way | 18 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| FLAT 7 MARSHALLS COURT Marshalls Road | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 181 Gander Green Lane | 14 May 2026 | Terraced | £595,000 | £595,000 |
| 12 Northpoint Close | 14 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 56 Robin Hood Lane | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £720,000 | £720,000 |
| FLAT 4 4 Sydney Road | 6 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £272,000 | £272,000 |
| 1 Coleridge Avenue | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 50 Robin Hood Lane | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £315,500 | £315,500 |
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 SM1 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69A St Albans Road | £56,500 (1995) | £325,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 20 Lymescote Gardens | £443,000 (2017) | £600,000 (2026) | +3.4% | -0.1% |
| 26 Jeffs Road | £140,000 (2001) | £420,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 2 WESTMORLAND COURT Grennell Road | £164,950 (2003) | £375,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| 33 Orchard Way | £331,500 (2015) | £546,001 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.4% |
| 111 Gander Green Lane | £295,000 (2006) | £660,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 20 Princes Street | £87,950 (1997) | £455,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 41 Beulah Road | £136,000 (2003) | £450,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 30 Kirk Rise | £57,500 (1998) | £240,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 8 Antrobus Close | £245,000 (2006) | £515,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 260 Carshalton Road | £250,000 (2005) | £575,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 119 Gander Green Lane | £290,600 (2012) | £679,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SM1 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 | 10,266 | 43.8% | £161,000 | £5,000 – £674,950 |
| Terraced | 6,684 | 28.5% | £220,000 | £15,000 – £916,000 |
| Semi-detached | 5,439 | 23.2% | £265,000 | £13,500 – £1,499,000 |
| Detached | 1,034 | 4.4% | £347,550 | £35,000 – £1,575,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SM1
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,858 certificates cover SM1, and their median floor area is 67 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -11.8%. 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 | 67 m² | about 721 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 51 m² | about 549 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 88 m² | about 947 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 37.2% | 2,178 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 2.7% | 156 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SM1
10,364 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13,059 freehold — 44.2% 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 £161,050 and the median freehold sale £245,000 — a gap of +52.1%. 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 | 10,364 | 44.2% | £161,050 |
| Freehold | 13,059 | 55.8% | £245,000 |
| New build | 1,364 | 5.8% | £210,000 |
| Existing home | 22,059 | 94.2% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +5.0%. 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 1,181 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 SM1
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Sutton, 45.1% of 96,316 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 307 | 0.3% |
| B | 8,693 | 9.0% |
| C | 34,407 | 35.7% |
| D | 35,140 | 36.5% |
| E | 14,116 | 14.7% |
| F | 2,990 | 3.1% |
| G | 663 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Sutton at £1,551 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,234 for a one-bedroom home and £1,891 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £200,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.31% 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 SM1, 488 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 173 violent, 21 burglary, 32 vehicle-related and 101 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.9 times busier.
Against the 209,639 residents the 2021 census counted in Sutton, that is 2.33 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 SM1
The 2021 census counted 209,639 residents in Sutton across 82,347 households. 65.5% of those households own their home and 34.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a SM1 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenshaw High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,977 |
| Sutton Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,061 |
| Manor Park Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 710 |
| Westbourne Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 656 |
| All Saints Benhilton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 462 |
| Robin Hood Junior School | Primary | Community school | 359 |
| Robin Hood Infants' School | Primary | Community school | 239 |
| Thomas Wall Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 98 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sutton (London) Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| West Sutton Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Sutton Common Rail Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Carshalton Beeches Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
Section 09
How SM1 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SM1 sits above that national figure — +27.0%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,982 per square metre, across 5,636 of the 23,423 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 £5,000 to £1,575,000. 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.
SM1 sits in Sutton, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Sutton at 11.4 times median local earnings of £39,874 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 SM1
The closest districts
- SM51.7 km · £211,000
- SM31.7 km · £245,000
- SM21.8 km · £205,000
- SM63.4 km · £203,500
- KT43.7 km · £259,995
- CR44.8 km · £173,000
- KT174.9 km · £295,000
- SW205.4 km · £320,000
This district mostly covers Sutton.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SM1?
The median price paid in SM1 across every sale on the register is £200,000. 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 SM1?
23,423 sales are on record for SM1, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SM1 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +24.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SM1 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £450,000, set in 2025. 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 SM1?
£2,982 per square metre, from the 5,636 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 18 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, “SM1 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.