Albert Embankment, London house prices are built from 1,243 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £595,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -4.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -31.5%.
Median price paid
£595,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-4.3%
Change in real terms
-31.5%
Median per m²
£6,471
HM Land Registry1,243 sales268 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How Albert Embankment, London prices moved
The chart tracks the median Albert Embankment, London house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 2 | £630,000 | £1,398,898 |
| 2000s | 10 | £420,000 | £765,116 |
| 2010s | 10 | £675,000 | £951,750 |
| 2020s | 7 | £1,075,000 | £1,098,370 |
The highest yearly median on record for Albert Embankment, London is £1,955,000 in 2017; the lowest is £327,500 in 2004. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £740,000 to £550,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £1,605,231, so the real change over the whole record is -65.7% — about -3.51% 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: -4.3% in cash against -31.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 172 9 | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| Apartment 15 24 | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £560,000 | £560,000 |
| Flat 122 9 | 31 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £455,000 | £455,000 |
| Flat 87 9 | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £750,000 | £750,000 |
| Flat 177 9 | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £467,500 | £467,500 |
| Apartment 81 27 | 3 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,810,000 | £1,810,000 |
| Apartment 26 23 | 28 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £540,000 | £540,000 |
| Flat 198 9 | 26 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £560,000 | £560,000 |
| Flat 191 9 | 17 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| Flat 146 9 | 17 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| Apartment 41 24 | 20 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,380,000 | £1,410,000 |
| Apartment 104 27 | 9 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £460,000 | £470,000 |
| Flat 86 9 | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,840,000 | £1,880,000 |
| Flat B86 Parliament View Apartments, 1 | 17 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,075,000 | £1,098,370 |
| Apartment 11 30 | 12 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,400,000 | £1,430,435 |
| Apartment 72 27 | 28 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £700,000 | £715,217 |
| Apartment 33 30 | 25 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £3,180,000 | £3,249,130 |
| Apartment 45 23 | 23 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,825,000 | £1,864,674 |
| Apartment 26 27 | 10 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| Flat A13 Parliament View Apartments, 1 | 2 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £850,000 | £868,478 |
| Apartment 70 24 | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £975,000 | £996,196 |
| Apartment 65 24 | 26 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £830,000 | £848,043 |
| Apartment 2 27 | 1 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £690,000 | £705,000 |
| Flat A18 Parliament View Apartments, 1 | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £845,000 | £863,370 |
| Flat 17 9 | 27 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £423,000 | £432,196 |
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 Albert Embankment, London values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 172 9 Albert Embankment | £315,000 (2004) | £450,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| APARTMENT 15 24 Albert Embankment | £646,800 (2018) | £560,000 (2026) | -1.8% | -5.2% |
| FLAT 122 9 Albert Embankment | £307,500 (2004) | £455,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.0% |
| FLAT 177 9 Albert Embankment | £325,000 (2004) | £467,500 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.1% |
| FLAT 87 9 Albert Embankment | £565,000 (2003) | £750,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.5% |
| APARTMENT 81 27 Albert Embankment | £2,470,000 (2020) | £1,810,000 (2026) | -5.0% | -9.1% |
| APARTMENT 26 23 Albert Embankment | £739,900 (2018) | £540,000 (2026) | -3.9% | -7.3% |
| FLAT 198 9 Albert Embankment | £350,000 (2004) | £560,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 191 9 Albert Embankment | £295,000 (2004) | £475,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 146 9 Albert Embankment | £385,000 (2004) | £500,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| APARTMENT 41 24 Albert Embankment | £1,568,000 (2018) | £1,380,000 (2025) | -1.8% | -5.5% |
| FLAT 86 9 Albert Embankment | £1,035,000 (2002) | £1,840,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Albert Embankment, London 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 | 1,242 | 99.9% | £595,000 | £126,875 – £16,950,975 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.1% | £970,000 | £970,000 – £970,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Albert Embankment, London
1,242 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1 freehold — 99.9% 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 £595,000 and the median freehold sale £362,000 — a gap of -39.2%. 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 | 1,242 | 99.9% | £595,000 |
| Freehold | 1 | 0.1% | £362,000 |
| New build | 568 | 45.7% | £525,000 |
| Existing home | 675 | 54.3% | £675,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -22.2%. 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 166 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 Albert Embankment, London
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lambeth, 50.9% of 200,414 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 170 | 0.1% |
| B | 23,068 | 11.5% |
| C | 78,676 | 39.3% |
| D | 72,310 | 36.1% |
| E | 21,635 | 10.8% |
| F | 3,403 | 1.7% |
| G | 1,152 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lambeth at £2,523 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,880 for a one-bedroom home and £2,680 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £595,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.09% 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 SE1, 2,581 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 481 violent, 95 burglary, 60 vehicle-related and 377 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 15.5 times busier.
Against the 317,654 residents the 2021 census counted in Lambeth, that is 8.13 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 Albert Embankment, London
The 2021 census counted 317,654 residents in Lambeth across 134,688 households. 34.8% of those households own their home and 65.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
24 state and independent schools have a SE1 postcode: 12 primary, 7 secondary, 3 16 plus, 1 all-through, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of London Academy (Southwark) | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,589 |
| Ark Globe Academy | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,272 |
| Haberdashers' Borough Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 983 |
| Ark Walworth Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 973 |
| Oasis Academy South Bank | Secondary | Free schools | 691 |
| St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 620 |
| London Nautical, City of London Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 510 |
| Charles Dickens Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 494 |
| Phoenix Primary School | Primary | Community school | 480 |
| Notre Dame Catholic Girls' School | Secondary | Academy converter | 354 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Borough Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.2 km |
| Borough Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.3 km |
| Borough Station | Tram | 0.3 km |
| London Bridge Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
Section 09
How Albert Embankment, London compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Albert Embankment, London sits above that national figure — +277.8%.
Within London the street ranks 2815 of 21431 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £285,000 (+108.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £6,471 per square metre, across 268 of the 1,243 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 £126,875 to £16,950,975. 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.
Albert Embankment, London sits in Lambeth, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lambeth at 11.1 times median local earnings of £48,690 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
Streets nearby
- Belvedere Road£270,000 median
- Grange Road£205,100 median
- Shad Thames£510,000 median
- Newington Causeway£165,000 median
- Westminster Bridge Road£320,000 median
- Park Street£680,000 median
- Walworth Road£395,625 median
- Old Kent Road£185,000 median
- Lynton Road£310,000 median
- Southwark Bridge Road£485,000 median
- Blackfriars Road£959,500 median
- Queen Elizabeth Street£270,000 median
- Mill Street£402,500 median
- Green Walk£405,000 median
- Providence Square£299,950 median
- Casson Square£1,020,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT C116, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment6 sales
- FLAT 18, 9 Albert Embankment5 sales
- FLAT 53, 9 Albert Embankment5 sales
- FLAT A16, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment5 sales
- FLAT 177, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 198, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT A13, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT B81, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT D166, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT C97, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT B48, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 105, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 10, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 179, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 17, PENINSULA HEIGHTS, 93 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT B58, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT C132, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT B71, PARLIAMENT VIEW APARTMENTS, 1 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 20, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 22, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 13, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 46, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 15, 9 Albert Embankment4 sales
- FLAT 172, 9 Albert Embankment3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Albert Embankment, London?
The median price paid in Albert Embankment, London across every sale on the register is £595,000. 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 Albert Embankment, London?
1,243 sales are on record for Albert Embankment, London, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Albert Embankment, London house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -4.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -31.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Albert Embankment, London house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,955,000, 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 Albert Embankment, London?
£6,471 per square metre, from the 268 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 22 May 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, “Albert Embankment, London 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.