Albert Square, London house prices are built from 218 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 16 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £230,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +30.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.0%.
Median price paid
£230,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+30.8%
Change in real terms
-4.0%
Median per m²
£4,207
HM Land Registry218 sales46 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Albert Square, London prices moved
The chart tracks the median Albert Square, London house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £76,500 | £169,866 |
| 2000s | 9 | £213,000 | £388,023 |
| 2010s | 6 | £342,500 | £482,925 |
| 2020s | 2 | £628,000 | £641,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for Albert Square, London is £700,000 in 2021; the lowest is £57,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £73,000 to £628,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £162,094, so the real change over the whole record is +307.7% — about +4.97% 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: +30.8% in cash against -4.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 16 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £789,000 | £789,000 |
| 24 | 2 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| Ground Floor Flat 28 | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,200,000 | £1,200,000 |
| 20 | 31 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £1,200,000 | £1,226,087 |
| 61c | 26 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 40 | 31 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £628,000 | £660,806 |
| 38 | 31 May 2024 | Terraced | £830,000 | £873,358 |
| 84 | 31 May 2024 | Terraced | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| Flat 4 10 | 9 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £471,390 | £496,015 |
| 26 | 8 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £2,350,000 | £2,472,761 |
| Flat 5 10 | 23 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £486,207 |
| 9a | 7 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £311,000 | £336,023 |
| 61b | 19 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £410,000 | £442,989 |
| 29 | 7 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| 1 | 4 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| Flat 4 13 | 25 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| 52 | 1 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £510,000 | £590,879 |
| 76a | 17 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 15 | 1 Sep 2021 | Detached | £3,250,000 | £4,106,183 |
| 24 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £2,200,000 | £2,779,570 |
| Third Floor Flat 33 | 18 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| 3 | 21 May 2021 | Terraced | £758,000 | £957,688 |
| Flat 3 23 | 3 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £630,000 | £795,968 |
| Flat 1 13 | 2 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £660,000 | £833,871 |
| Flat 1 23 | 8 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £740,000 | £934,946 |
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 Square, London values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 Albert Square | £87,500 (1999) | £789,000 (2026) | +8.5% | +5.7% |
| 24 Albert Square | £535,000 (1997) | £525,000 (2026) | -0.1% | -2.6% |
| 61C Albert Square | £120,000 (2006) | £410,000 (2025) | +6.7% | +3.6% |
| 40 Albert Square | £223,000 (2004) | £628,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.4% |
| 26 Albert Square | £280,000 (1997) | £2,350,000 (2024) | +8.2% | +5.4% |
| 9A Albert Square | £81,000 (2001) | £311,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 4 13 Albert Square | £230,000 (2001) | £600,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.1% |
| 76A Albert Square | £117,000 (2001) | £360,000 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 15 Albert Square | £280,000 (2012) | £3,250,000 (2021) | +31.3% | +28.9% |
| THIRD FLOOR FLAT 33 Albert Square | £139,000 (2001) | £425,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 3 Albert Square | £150,000 (2001) | £758,000 (2021) | +8.4% | +6.1% |
| FLAT 3 23 Albert Square | £135,000 (1998) | £630,000 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Albert Square, 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 | 112 | 51.4% | £232,000 | £30,000 – £1,200,000 |
| Terraced | 98 | 45.0% | £223,000 | £37,500 – £2,350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 3.2% | £220,000 | £95,000 – £512,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.5% | £3,250,000 | £3,250,000 – £3,250,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Albert Square, London
115 of the sales on record are leasehold and 103 freehold — 52.8% 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 £232,000 and the median freehold sale £225,000 — a gap of -3.0%. 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 | 115 | 52.8% | £232,000 |
| Freehold | 103 | 47.2% | £225,000 |
| New build | 11 | 5.0% | £225,000 |
| Existing home | 207 | 95.0% | £230,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -2.4%. 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 12 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 Square, 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 £230,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.16% 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 SW8, 1,563 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 338 violent, 65 burglary, 53 vehicle-related and 333 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 9.4 times busier.
Against the 317,654 residents the 2021 census counted in Lambeth, that is 4.92 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 Square, 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.
8 state and independent schools have a SW8 postcode: 8 primary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyvil Primary School and Resource Bases for Speech, Language and Communication Needs, and Autism | Primary | Foundation school | 439 |
| Heathbrook Primary School | Primary | Community school | 339 |
| Ashmole Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| Herbert Morrison Primary School | Primary | Community school | 208 |
| St George's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 207 |
| St Stephen's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 199 |
| St Mary's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 194 |
| Griffin Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 155 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Nine Elms Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.4 km |
| Nine Elms Underground Station | Tram | 0.4 km |
| Battersea Power Station Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Battersea Power Station Underground Station | Tram | 0.8 km |
Section 09
How Albert Square, London compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Albert Square, London sits above that national figure — +46.0%.
Within London the street ranks 14166 of 21431 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-19.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,207 per square metre, across 46 of the 218 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 £30,000 to £3,250,000. 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.
Albert Square, 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
- Queenstown Road£428,000 median
- St George Wharf£548,975 median
- Wandsworth Road£436,000 median
- South Lambeth Road£237,500 median
- Exchange Gardens£697,125 median
- Ingelow Road£309,000 median
- Albion Avenue£253,400 median
- Richborne Terrace£294,375 median
- Lansdowne Way£205,000 median
- Fentiman Road£430,000 median
- Bondway£1,190,000 median
- Nine Elms Lane£390,000 median
- Killyon Road£330,000 median
- Priory Grove£271,525 median
- Carnation Way£1,400,600 median
- Tennyson Street£357,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 24 Albert Square6 sales
- 26 Albert Square6 sales
- THIRD FLOOR FLAT, 33 Albert Square6 sales
- 16 Albert Square5 sales
- 82 Albert Square4 sales
- FLAT 3, 23 Albert Square4 sales
- FLAT 1, 13 Albert Square4 sales
- FLAT 1, 23 Albert Square4 sales
- 30 Albert Square4 sales
- FLAT 2, 13 Albert Square4 sales
- 7 Albert Square4 sales
- FLAT 1, 10 Albert Square4 sales
- 21A Albert Square4 sales
- 37 Albert Square4 sales
- 2A Albert Square4 sales
- THIRD FLOOR FLAT, 30 Albert Square4 sales
- 22 Albert Square4 sales
- 40 Albert Square3 sales
- 9A Albert Square3 sales
- 5 Albert Square3 sales
- FLAT 2, 10 Albert Square3 sales
- 2B Albert Square3 sales
- THIRD FLOOR FLAT, 6 Albert Square3 sales
- 11A Albert Square3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Albert Square, London?
The median price paid in Albert Square, London across every sale on the register is £230,000. 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 Square, London?
218 sales are on record for Albert Square, London, the most recent completing on 16 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Albert Square, London house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.8% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Albert Square, London house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £700,000, set in 2021. 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 Square, London?
£4,207 per square metre, from the 46 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 16 Apr 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 Square, 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.