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Empress Street, SE17

Sold prices, £/m² and street profile from HM Land Registry records.

Median sold price
£189,000
all recorded sales
Recorded sales
8
Distinct homes
6
Price range
£55,000£340,000
Sales recorded
2002 → 2022
first to latest sale
The street in brief

Empress Street is a street almost entirely of flats. Homes here typically change hands around £189,000 — roughly 65% below the SE17 norm. Recent sales are too thin to call a trend for the street itself; SE17 prices as a whole have been easing. With 8 sales across 6 homes since 2002, homes here come to market only rarely.

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Empress Street prices over time

Median sold price on the street by year, from 8 HM Land Registry records. Years with no recorded sales are left blank rather than joined up.

This street — yearly medianSE17 district trend
£0£200k£400k£600k£800k200520102015202020252002: £55,000 median · 1 sale2006: £142,500 median · 1 sale2007: £187,000 median · 1 sale2011: £150,000 median · 1 sale2014: £191,000 median · 1 sale2015: £255,000 median · 1 sale2017: £340,000 median · 1 sale2022: £330,000 median · 1 sale

Median sold price by year vs the SE17 district trend. Street medians on thin years reflect few sales — hover a dot for the exact figure.

How Empress Street compares

Empress Street against the SE17 district's busiest streets, the district itself, and the official UK House Price Index for the wider area.

Hewson Way£810k · 89
Walworth Road£747k · 132
Deacon Street£716k · 266
Manor Place£670k · 44
Heygate Street£653k · 88
Danson Mews£600k · 117
Walworth Square£568k · 44
Amelia Street£540k · 67
Angel Lane£518k · 68
Empress Street£189k · 8*

Median sold price and sale count over the last 8years for the district's busiest streets. *This street's figures cover all recorded sales (fewer than 3 in the last 8 years).

This street
£189,000
median · all recorded sales
SE17 district
£546,000
median · last 8 years · street -65%
England
£291,445
average price (UK House Price Index), Apr 2026 · +3.9% in 12 months

Empress Street's £189,000 median sits about 65% below SE17's £546,000.

Street and SE17 figures are medians of HM Land Registry sales; the England figures are the UK House Price Index mix-adjusted average — a different basis, so compare direction rather than levels between the two.

Every recorded sale on Empress Street

Individual transactions as recorded by HM Land Registry, newest first.

DateAddressTypeNew buildPrice
24 Jan 202347 · SE17 3HHnon-standardFlat£260,000
9 Sept 202221 · SE17 3HHFlat£330,000
18 Jan 201717 · SE17 3HHFlat£340,000
30 Jun 201573 · SE17 3HHFlat£255,000
27 Nov 201437 · SE17 3HHFlat£191,000
21 Dec 201139 · SE17 3HHFlat£150,000
7 Sept 200717 · SE17 3HHFlat£187,000
20 Nov 200623 · SE17 3HHFlat£142,500
8 May 200223 · SE17 3HHFlat£55,000

Sales marked non-standardare Land Registry “additional price paid” entries — bulk purchases, repossessions, right-to-buy and similar transfers. They're listed for completeness but excluded from every median and comparison figure on this page.

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More streets in SE17

Sold-price profiles for nearby streets, and the wider SE17 area guide.

Deacon StreetHeygate StreetWalworth RoadElephant RoadAmelia StreetCrampton StreetRodney RoadHewson WaySteedman StreetDoddington GroveSayer StreetEast Street
SE17 house prices & area guide →

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, including the UK House Price Index. EPC data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures summarise recorded sales on the street and are not a valuation of any individual home.