Blackheath house prices,and what they mean.

The median existing home in Blackheath sold for £525,000 over the 12 months to July 2026, down on the year before, and 297 homes sold there in 2025. Covers the Royal Greenwich side of Blackheath. The Lewisham side is not yet included. Neighbourhood boundaries are informal: these figures cover the postcode sectors SE3 0, SE3 7, SE3 8.

Median sold price: £525,000; Existing homes, including flats
Change on the year: −6.9%; vs the previous 12 months
Homes sold: 297; in 2025
Sold above £500,000: 57%; England: 19%

By type of home

What each type sells for.

Median sold prices by property type in Blackheath, the 12 months to July 2026
Type	Median	Change	Sales
Detached houses	Too few sales	n/a	9
Semi-detached houses	£735,000	+5.0%	47
Terraced houses	£675,000	+1.1%	53
Flats and maisonettes	£410,000	−5.7%	111

Check the price range for one type of home. Half of existing homes sold went for between £408,000 and £750,000, and 52% were leasehold. Almost no new builds were sold.

Price spread

Where sales fall.

Under £150k1
£150k to £250k7
£250k to £350k26
£350k to £500k61
£500k to £750k68
£750k to £1m30
£1m+27

Ten years of prices

The median sold price, year by year.

Calendar years. Five-year change (2020 to 2025): +9.9%.

How it compares

Against the wider area.

Blackheath£525,000
Greenwich£452,500
England£295,000

Busiest months

January: 8% of sales
February: 8% of sales
March: 12% of sales
April: 6% of sales
May: 7% of sales
June: 8% of sales
July: 10% of sales
August: 9% of sales
September: 8% of sales
October: 8% of sales
November: 8% of sales
December: 7% of sales

Share of completed sales by month, 2022 to 2025. The three busiest months are highlighted.

What the numbers mean

Reading the Blackheath market, from both sides.

Figures tell you what has happened. What they mean for one home, and one decision, depends on the details.

If you are selling

Prices have eased

The median sold price in Blackheath is 6.9% lower than in the previous 12 months. When prices are softening, buyers compare more and negotiate harder, so the price a home launches at carries more weight than it does in a rising market.

Buyers with more at stake

With about one in 2 sales above £500,000, many buyers in Blackheath are borrowing large sums. Their lender's valuer has to agree with the price, so an asking price that runs ahead of local comparable sales can unravel weeks after an offer is accepted.

Why down-valuations happen

Fewer sales

297 homes sold in Blackheath in 2025, and sales of existing homes were 8.3% lower than in 2024. Fewer sales usually means buyers are taking longer to commit, which makes the first few weeks of a sale more important.

When sales complete

Completions in Blackheath have peaked in March, July and August over the last four years. Sales usually take a few months to complete, so those peaks reflect offers agreed well before.

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If you are buying

More room to negotiate

With the median price 6.9% below the previous year, sellers in Blackheath are meeting a more cautious market. That can create room to negotiate, but a lower price is only a good buy if the home stands up to a survey and the lender's valuation.

A higher-value market

About one in 2 sales in Blackheath is above £500,000, compared with 19% across England. At these prices a down-valuation or a survey issue moves the numbers by tens of thousands of pounds, which is when an independent view is worth having.

Down-valuations explained

Plenty of leasehold

52% of homes sold in Blackheath were leasehold, mostly flats. Lease length, service charges and ground rent all affect value and whether a lender will lend, so they deserve attention before an offer, not after.

A quieter market

Sales of existing homes in Blackheath fell by 8.3% between 2024 and 2025. A quieter market gives buyers more time and more choice, but it also means fewer recent comparable sales for a lender's valuer to rely on.

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Local knowledge

What Jon knows about these streets.

From Jon's years in London estate agency and branch management from 2000 onwards.

Greenwich and Blackheath (SE10 and SE3)

SE10 · SE3

Greenwich has three quite separate markets. Around the park and West Greenwich are Georgian and Victorian houses in conservation areas within the World Heritage Site, among the most sought-after homes in south-east London, where character and position command a premium and planning rules limit what owners can change. East Greenwich is mainly Victorian terraces, a step down in price but popular with families. Greenwich Peninsula is a large and still-growing district of new-build towers, so the leasehold, service charge and resale-against-new-build questions apply there.

Blackheath, straddling Greenwich and Lewisham, has the feel of a village around its heath, with substantial Victorian and Georgian houses and the well-known 1960s Span estates, which have a loyal following.

Transport ranges from the DLR, the Jubilee line at North Greenwich and mainline rail. Across the area, the gap between the best streets and the rest is wide, so area averages say less here than usual.

Jon's notes describe the character of an area and what tends to drive value there. The figures above show what the market is doing now.

Questions

Blackheath house prices: common questions.

What is the average house price in Blackheath?

The median sold price of an existing (second-hand) home in Blackheath over the 12 months to July 2026 was £525,000, based on 220 sales registered with HM Land Registry so far. Half of them went for between £408,000 and £750,000. New builds are counted separately, because they take much longer to be registered.

Are house prices in Blackheath going up or down?

The median sold price in Blackheath is −6.9% compared with the previous 12 months. Over five years (2020 to 2025), the median has changed by +9.9%. Averages move with the mix of homes sold, so a change of a few per cent can reflect which homes happened to sell as much as a change in values.

How much does a house cost in Blackheath?

Median sold prices in Blackheath over the 12 months to July 2026: semi-detached houses £735,000; terraced houses £675,000; flats and maisonettes £410,000.

How many homes sell in Blackheath each year?

297 homes sold in Blackheath in 2025, and sales of existing homes were −8.3% on 2024. These are standard open-market sales at full price; repossessions, sales to companies and buy-to-let purchases that Land Registry can identify are excluded.

Why might a home in Blackheath sell for more or less than these figures?

These are medians across every home sold, so they mix flats with large detached houses and plain homes with exceptional ones. A single home's value depends on what comparable homes nearby have sold for, its condition and the market at the time. Sales also take weeks or months to appear in Land Registry records (new builds up to a year), so the latest months are still filling in.

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