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House prices per square metre in SW12
95% CI £8,960–£9,440 per m² · n = 344 matched sales
The median sold price in SW12 (Balham, London) is £9,200 per square metre (£855 per ft²), based on 344 matched sales in the 12 months to July 2026, at a median sale price of £700,000. Over the 10 years to Q1 2026, the mix-adjusted median price per square metre changed by +0.8% a year in cash terms, or −2.5% a year after inflation.
Map of 378 sales in SW12 in the last 12 months; median £9,200 per square metre. Full details are in the sold-prices table below.
Prices in SW12
Median price per m²
£9,200
n = 344 matched sales
Median sale price
£700,000
n = 378 sales
How prices are spread in SW12
Distribution of £/m² for the matched resale sales in SW12 over the last 12 months. The median is £9,200/m² with a 95% CI of £8,960 to £9,440 and a middle 60% running £7,850 to £10,700. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 £7,850
- p80 £10,700
- 95% CI £8,960–£9,440
The individual sales appear here once SW12's sold-price file loads. The markers are the published statistics.
By property type
| Property type | Median £/m² | Matched sales |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £9,630/m² | n = 92 |
| Flat | £8,890/m² | n = 230 |
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£699,000
Middle 60% (p20–p80): £597,000–£813,000
76 m² at the median £/m² across all tenures · n = 344 matched sales (last 12 months)
Sold prices (last 12 months)
30 sales
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24/07/26 | Flat 1 176 Bedford Hill, London | £700,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £8,430 | |
| 17/07/26 | Ground Floor Flat 37 Cathles Road, London | £785,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £14,500 | |
| 17/07/26 | 36 Emmanuel Road, London | £735,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,070 | |
| 15/07/26 | Flat 21 Rokeby House Lochinvar Street, London | £402,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £5,430 | |
| 14/07/26 | 31 Fieldhouse Road, London | £915,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,200 | |
| 10/07/26 | 39 Scholars Road, London | £1,500,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £10,800 | |
| 10/07/26 | 22 Fieldhouse Road, London | £770,000 | Terraced | Leasehold | £9,750 | |
| 09/07/26 | 4 Hazelbourne Road, London | £780,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 08/07/26 | Flat 14 Audiology House, 45 Nightingale Lane, London | £640,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,400 | |
| 07/07/26 | Flat 2 129 Cavendish Road, London | £762,500 | Flat | Leasehold | £8,030 | |
| 06/07/26 | 69A Dinsmore Road, London | £755,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £7,330 | |
| 03/07/26 | 11 Calbourne Road, London | £1,850,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £10,100 | |
| 03/07/26 | 6 Anchor Mews, London | £890,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,780 | |
| 03/07/26 | 7 Old Dairy Mews, London | £879,675 | Terraced | Freehold | £9,880 | |
| 03/07/26 | 104 Boundaries Road, London | £610,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 03/07/26 | Flat C 156 Bedford Hill, London | £410,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,400 | |
| 02/07/26 | 17 Honeybrook Road, London | £925,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £7,840 | |
| 01/07/26 | 6 New Gothic Lodge, 1 Old Devonshire Road, London | £610,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £7,820 | |
| 01/07/26 | Flat C 6 Alderbrook Road, London | £517,775 | Flat | Leasehold | £15,200 | |
| 30/06/26 | 56 St James Terrace, London | £445,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,890 |
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Head to head: SW12 vs SW17 · all comparisons · league tables
Ranked here: 23rd of 1,662 in most expensive postcode districts in England & Wales · 23rd of 198 in most expensive postcode districts in London
Nearby districts
Median price per square metre in the nearest districts.
- SW4 · Clapham£8,780/m² median
- SW17 · Tooting£7,950/m² median
- SW2 · Streatham Hill£7,220/m² median
- SW11 · Battersea£9,250/m² median
- SW16 · Streatham£6,250/m² median
- SW18 · Earlsfield£8,660/m² median
- SE24 · Herne Hill£8,720/m² median
Each trend line is that district’s own quarterly median price per square metre, scaled to its own range: compare directions, not heights. Gaps are quarters with too few matched sales to publish a median.
Further reading
- Freehold and leasehold are different markets70% of matched sales here are leasehold
- Cash terms, real terms, and which to trustPrices here rose 0.8% a year in cash and fell 2.5% after inflation
- London price per square metre: where value still existsWhere value still exists across London
- How to compare two areas before you moveSame measure, same window, same tenure: how to do it honestly
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HM Land Registry sold prices to July 2026 (registrations lag sales by 2–8 weeks) · updated July 2026 · how these figures are made
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