SW20 house prices are built from 17,393 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +21.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.1%.
Median price paid
£320,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+21.3%
Change in real terms
-13.1%
Median per m²
£4,000
HM Land Registry17,393 sales4,427 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How SW20 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SW20 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 | £105,000 | £233,150 |
| 2000s | 10 | £263,000 | £479,109 |
| 2010s | 10 | £528,725 | £745,502 |
| 2020s | 7 | £692,500 | £707,554 |
The highest yearly median on record for SW20 is £730,000 in 2025; the lowest is £88,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £88,000 to £697,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £195,402, so the real change over the whole record is +257.0% — about +4.19% 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: +21.3% in cash against -13.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 Spencer Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,705,000 | £1,705,000 |
| 38 Rothesay Avenue | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 75 Dorien Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £975,000 | £975,000 |
| 9 Panmuir Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £635,000 | £635,000 |
| 32 Edna Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £960,000 | £960,000 |
| FLAT 1 32 Stanton Road | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| 5 Greenview Drive | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 190 Cannon Hill Lane | 20 May 2026 | Terraced | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 29 Aston Road | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £654,000 | £654,000 |
| 69 Aston Road | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £730,000 | £730,000 |
| 82 Westway | 11 May 2026 | Terraced | £990,000 | £990,000 |
| 110 Parkway | 11 May 2026 | Terraced | £920,000 | £920,000 |
| 37 Bronson Road | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £721,250 | £721,250 |
| 89 Cottenham Park Road | 30 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £1,472,600 | £1,472,600 |
| 9 Savill Gardens | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| FLAT 51 MERTON MANSIONS Bushey Road | 24 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 56B Vernon Avenue | 23 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 8 Longmans Mews | 22 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £520,000 | £520,000 |
| FLAT 5 BRADBURY COURT Clifton Park Avenue | 22 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 49 Elm Walk | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £920,000 | £920,000 |
| FLAT 67 LANGHAM COURT Wyke Road | 15 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 69 Prince George's Avenue | 13 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £670,595 | £670,595 |
| 47 Abbott Avenue | 13 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 2 PAKENHAM HOUSE Atkinson Close | 10 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,365,000 | £1,365,000 |
| 42 St Catherine's Close | 9 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £430,000 | £430,000 |
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 SW20 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Cambridge Road | £255,000 (1995) | £700,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.7% |
| 43 Spencer Road | £116,000 (2001) | £1,705,000 (2026) | +11.4% | +8.4% |
| 38 Rothesay Avenue | £339,000 (2017) | £385,000 (2026) | +1.4% | -2.0% |
| 9 Panmuir Road | £86,000 (1995) | £635,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 75 Dorien Road | £580,000 (2022) | £975,000 (2026) | +13.9% | +9.8% |
| FLAT 1 32 Stanton Road | £74,500 (1997) | £485,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 32 Edna Road | £405,000 (2012) | £960,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.4% |
| 4 Meadway | £175,000 (1996) | £1,225,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 190 Cannon Hill Lane | £436,888 (2019) | £650,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +1.9% |
| 29 Aston Road | £170,000 (2001) | £654,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 69 Aston Road | £145,650 (1999) | £730,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 82 Westway | £185,000 (1999) | £990,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SW20 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 | 7,136 | 41.0% | £234,000 | £800 – £2,850,000 |
| Terraced | 6,182 | 35.5% | £368,000 | £300 – £2,950,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,857 | 16.4% | £405,000 | £990 – £5,000,000 |
| Detached | 1,218 | 7.0% | £950,000 | £22,770 – £11,000,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SW20
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,664 certificates cover SW20, and their median floor area is 80 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. 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 | 80 m² | about 861 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 56 m² | about 603 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 115 m² | about 1,238 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 28.1% | 1,031 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 11.2% | 409 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SW20
7,420 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9,973 freehold — 42.7% 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 £234,125 and the median freehold sale £425,000 — a gap of +81.5%. 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 | 7,420 | 42.7% | £234,125 |
| Freehold | 9,973 | 57.3% | £425,000 |
| New build | 862 | 5.0% | £355,000 |
| Existing home | 16,531 | 95.0% | £320,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +10.9%. 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 806 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 SW20
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Kingston upon Thames, 42.3% of 86,826 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 125 | 0.1% |
| B | 7,932 | 9.1% |
| C | 28,632 | 33.0% |
| D | 32,565 | 37.5% |
| E | 13,677 | 15.8% |
| F | 3,098 | 3.6% |
| G | 797 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Kingston upon Thames at £1,807 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,375 for a one-bedroom home and £2,148 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £320,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.78% 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 SW20, 189 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 57 violent, 10 burglary, 20 vehicle-related and 50 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 168,063 residents the 2021 census counted in Kingston upon Thames, that is 1.12 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 SW20
The 2021 census counted 168,063 residents in Kingston upon Thames across 65,628 households. 61.6% of those households own their home and 38.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a SW20 postcode: 5 primary, 3 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutlish School | Secondary | Voluntary controlled school | 1,471 |
| Ursuline High School Wimbledon | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,396 |
| Raynes Park High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,134 |
| Hollymount School | Primary | Community school | 445 |
| St John Fisher RC Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 413 |
| Joseph Hood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 314 |
| West Wimbledon Primary School | Primary | Community school | 261 |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Raynes Park Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Wimbledon Chase Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Dundonald Road Tram Stop | Metro or underground | 1.6 km |
| Dundonald Road Tram Stop | Tram | 1.6 km |
Section 09
How SW20 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SW20 sits above that national figure — +103.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,000 per square metre, across 4,427 of the 17,393 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 £300 to £11,000,000. 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.
SW20 sits in Kingston upon Thames, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Kingston upon Thames at 12.7 times median local earnings of £42,346 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 SW20
The closest districts
- SW192.3 km · £301,000
- KT32.4 km · £275,000
- KT43.8 km · £259,995
- KT24.4 km · £299,950
- SM34.5 km · £245,000
- CR44.8 km · £173,000
- SW174.9 km · £270,000
- SW155.1 km · £337,500
This district mostly covers London.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SW20?
The median price paid in SW20 across every sale on the register is £320,000. 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 SW20?
17,393 sales are on record for SW20, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SW20 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +21.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SW20 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £730,000, 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 SW20?
£4,000 per square metre, from the 4,427 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 12 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, “SW20 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.