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House prices per square metre in SW12
£9,170median per m²High confidence
95% CI £8,900–£9,460 per m² · n = 351 matched sales
The median sold price in SW12 (Balham, London) is £9,170 per square metre (£852 per ft²), based on 351 matched sales in the 12 months to August 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 +0.9% a year in cash terms, or −2.5% a year after inflation.
Map of 379 sales in SW12 in the last 12 months; median £9,170 per square metre. Full details are in the sold-prices table below.
Prices in SW12
Tenure
Median price per m²
£9,170
n = 351 matched sales
Median sale price
£700,000
n = 379 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 £9,170/m² with a 95% CI of £8,900 to £9,460 and a middle 60% running £7,840 to £10,600. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 £7,840
- p80 £10,600
- 95% CI £8,900–£9,460
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 | £9,670/m² | n = 98 |
| Flat | £8,890/m² | n = 234 |
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Tenure
£697,000
Middle 60% (p20–p80): £596,000–£806,000
76 m² at the median £/m² across all tenures · n = 351 matched sales (last 12 months)
Sold prices (last 12 months)
30 sales
Property type
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20/08/26 | 4 Balham New Road, London | £837,500 | Terraced | Freehold | £11,200 | |
| 17/08/26 | 129 Larch Close, London | £410,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £5,860 | |
| 14/08/26 | 63 Honeybrook Road, London | £1,325,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £8,600 | |
| 14/08/26 | 31 Hillgate Place, London | £485,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,800 | |
| 07/08/26 | 215 Cavendish Road, London | £962,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £9,620 | |
| 07/08/26 | 32 Linnet Mews, London | £685,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £12,200 | |
| 07/08/26 | 14 Linnet Mews, London | £682,700 | Terraced | Freehold | £9,890 | |
| 06/08/26 | 36 Ormeley Road, London | £1,485,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £8,790 | |
| 05/08/26 | Flat 1 51 Cavendish Road, London | £275,629 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 03/08/26 | 15A Burnbury Road, London | £705,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £8,810 | |
| 03/08/26 | Flat 47 Thurleigh Court Nightingale Lane, London | £380,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £6,550 | |
| 03/08/26 | Flat 50 Rokeby House Lochinvar Street, London | £318,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £6,910 | |
| 31/07/26 | Flat A 145 Ravenslea Road, London | £750,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,490 | |
| 31/07/26 | Flat 1 192 Bedford Hill, London | £700,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £10,300 | |
| 31/07/26 | First Floor Flat 24 Ramsden Road, London | £435,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 31/07/26 | Flat 1 134 Bedford Hill, London | £365,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £7,450 | |
| 30/07/26 | First Floor Flat 116 Cavendish Road, London | £559,500 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,170 | |
| 30/07/26 | 67B Laitwood Road, London | £446,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £8,920 | |
| 29/07/26 | 12 Hydethorpe Road, London | £1,290,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £8,900 | |
| 28/07/26 | Flat 1 Macgregor House Thornton Road, London | £400,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £4,820 |
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Head to head: SW12 vs SW17 · all comparisons · league tables
Ranked here: 24th of 1,664 in most expensive postcode districts in England & Wales · 24th of 199 in most expensive postcode districts in London
Nearby districts
Median price per square metre in the nearest districts.
- SW4 · Clapham£8,840/m² median
- SW17 · Tooting£7,940/m² median
- SW2 · Streatham Hill£7,120/m² median
- SW11 · Battersea£9,260/m² median
- SW16 · Streatham£6,120/m² median
- SW18 · Earlsfield£8,600/m² median
- SE24 · Herne Hill£8,580/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 0.9% 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 August 2026 (registrations lag sales by 2–8 weeks) · updated August 2026 · how these figures are made
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