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Southwark is an inner-London borough on the south bank of the Thames. Average sold prices across Southwark sit at £572,455 on the HM Land Registry House Price Index, 97.4% above the England average of £289,946 yet barely 3.6% above the wider London figure of £552,655. That places Southwark firmly in inner-London pricing without the prime premium of the boroughs to the west, and the gap between its cheapest postcode and its dearest tells the real story: SE16 at a £473,663 asking price sits next to SE1 at £714,030, two very different markets inside one borough. The local population grew 6.71% between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, from 288,283 to 307,637 residents.

What separates Southwark from most inner-London boroughs is the shape of its recent price history. The borough reached an all-time high of £622,328 in December 2020 and has since drifted back to £572,455, about 8.0% below that peak, leaving the market essentially flat over five years and down over ten. For an investor that reframes the borough: the capital-growth engine has stalled, so the income return and the sharp split between the riverside flats and the southern Dulwich houses matter more than a rising tide ever did. Top gross yields reach 6.0% in SE16, while the Dulwich postcodes yield closer to 4.1%.

This guide covers the London Borough of Southwark (ONS code E09000028) across postcodes SE1, SE5, SE15, SE16, SE17, SE21, and SE22. Southwark runs south from the Thames at Borough and Bankside through Walworth, Camberwell and Peckham down to Dulwich, sharing borders with Lambeth to the west and Lewisham to the south-east.

Article updated: June 2026

Why Invest in Southwark?

Southwark added 19,354 residents between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, a 6.71% rise from 288,283 to 307,637, slightly ahead of the 6.3% England and Wales average. The borough packs a lot into a narrow strip running south from the river: the cultural draw of Bankside and Borough at the top, the dense residential and student markets of Walworth and Camberwell through the middle, and the leafy owner-occupier streets of Dulwich at the bottom. That range is what gives Southwark its two-tier character, and it runs through every table in this guide.

The local employment rate of 72.1% sits below both the London figure of 74.9% and the Great Britain figure of 75.6%, and unemployment runs at 9.5%, higher than most inner-London boroughs. Those numbers reflect a population that mixes high-earning professionals near the river with large social-rented communities in Walworth, Peckham and the Aylesbury area. For a landlord, the practical read is that tenant demand here is broad rather than uniform, spanning City and Canary Wharf commuters, students, and benefit-supported households, with the balance shifting sharply from one postcode to the next.

Median gross weekly earnings for Southwark residents are £936.20, which works out at £48,681 a year. That is above the London median of £892.60 a week and well clear of the Great Britain figure of £752.40. Those above-average wages help explain how the borough sustains rents that run from £2,172 a month in Peckham up to £2,920 in the SE1 riverside postcode, even where the headline employment rate lags. The University of the Arts London campus at Elephant & Castle and King's College sites at Denmark Hill add a steady student and graduate layer to that demand.

Southwark Economic Summary

• Population: 307,637 (2021 Census). Growth of 6.71% from 2011.
• Median annual salary: £48,681 (local), £46,415 (London), £39,125 (Great Britain)
• Employment rate: 72.1% (local), 74.9% (London), 75.6% (Great Britain)
• Unemployment rate: 9.5% (local)
• Key employment sectors: Professional and financial services, health, education, culture and hospitality, public administration

Source: ONS Census 2021, Nomis Labour Market Profile (ASHE 2025, residence-based earnings)

Regeneration and Investment in Southwark

Southwark holds three of inner London's largest regeneration programmes at once: Canada Water, the Old Kent Road Opportunity Area, and Elephant & Castle, between them planned to deliver well over 25,000 new homes. The investment is concentrated in the riverside and central postcodes, which is also where the recent price correction has been deepest, so the new supply lands in the part of the borough an income investor needs to read most carefully.

• Canada Water Masterplan (Under construction, up to 4,184 homes): British Land and AustralianSuper are delivering a 53-acre town centre on the SE16 dock basin in a 50:50 joint venture with Southwark Council, with up to 4,184 new homes (35% affordable), around 2.5 million square feet of workspace, a new high street, a leisure centre and a public park. The first phase has already topped out. For SE16 this is the single largest source of new flats and new employment in the borough. Updates at Southwark Council.
• Old Kent Road Opportunity Area (Long-term, around 20,000 homes): The Mayor of London has designated the Old Kent Road corridor an opportunity area planned for roughly 20,000 new homes over the coming decades, contingent in its later phases on the proposed Bakerloo line extension from Elephant & Castle with new tube stations along the route. The first phase supports up to 9,500 homes, with the balance tied to the rail upgrade. This sits behind SE15 and SE1 and would reshape transport access across the eastern half of the borough. Details at London City Hall.
• Elephant & Castle and Elephant Park (Active, around 3,000 homes): Lendlease's Elephant Park is the centrepiece of a long-running £4 billion programme remaking the Elephant & Castle district in SE17 and SE1, delivering around 3,000 new homes and a new central London park. A further town-centre scheme adds 485 homes alongside a major upgrade to the Underground station that makes provision for the Bakerloo line extension, plus a new University of the Arts London campus. Updates at Southwark Council.

Southwark Property Market Analysis

Average property prices in Southwark have risen 630.6% since January 1995, from £78,355 to £572,455. The sections below trace that path through the borough's actual cycles, then break down current postcode-level data for sold prices, price per square foot, asking prices, growth trends, and monthly transaction volumes.

When was the last house price crash in Southwark?

Southwark's sold prices are recorded by HM Land Registry at borough level under ONS code E09000028, and the House Price Index runs from January 1995 to the latest reading in April 2026, covering 31 years of market cycles. The borough's path differs from the national one in a way that matters: its sharpest recent move was not the 2008 crash but a pandemic-era boom and the slow give-back that followed.

The 1995 to 2007 climb: Southwark started at £78,355 in January 1995. Inner-London demand carried it past £176,926 by December 2000 and £259,753 by December 2005. The pre-crash market topped out at £354,862 in December 2007, more than four times its 1995 level.

2008 to 2009, the financial crisis: Prices fell from the December 2007 peak of £354,862 to a trough of £290,218 in May 2009, a drop of 18.2% over 17 months, with the worst year-on-year reading at -16.2% in June 2009. Southwark's decline tracked the wider London and England falls of around 18%, with the riverside flat market taking the heaviest hit.

Recovery, 2009 to 2011: The bounce came fast. Prices climbed back through 2010 and passed the December 2007 pre-crash peak by February 2011, when the average reached £361,082. That recovery took just over three years, far quicker than the eight-and-a-half years many regional markets needed, because inner-London demand returned first.

2012 to 2016, the post-crisis surge: This was Southwark's strongest stretch. Prices ran from £401,488 in December 2012 to £447,861 by December 2013, with annual growth above 11%, and reached £588,479 by December 2016. The borough roughly doubled across four years as buyers and investors poured into the regenerating riverside and central postcodes.

2017 to 2019, the plateau: Growth stalled. The average barely moved from £586,997 in December 2019 against the £588,479 of three years earlier, as stamp duty changes and Brexit uncertainty cooled the prime end of inner London.

2020, the all-time high: The stamp duty holiday lifted prices to £591,135 by June 2020 and on to an all-time high of £622,328 in December 2020. That December 2020 peak remains the highest reading in the borough's 31-year record.

2021 to present, the give-back: Since that high the market has eased rather than crashed. Prices slipped to £597,779 by September 2022, dropped to £565,336 by December 2023 as mortgage rates rose, and have settled at £572,455 by April 2026. That leaves Southwark about 8.0% below its December 2020 peak, roughly flat over five years and slightly lower over ten.

Long-term growth summary:

• 5 years (April 2021 to April 2026): 0.9% growth (£567,605 to £572,455)
• 10 years (April 2016 to April 2026): -3.7% (£594,187 to £572,455)
• 15 years (April 2011 to April 2026): 63.6% growth (£349,912 to £572,455)
• 20 years (April 2006 to April 2026): 115.1% growth (£266,154 to £572,455)
• 30 years (January 1995 to April 2026): 630.6% growth (£78,355 to £572,455)

The shape of those numbers is the key to Southwark today. The 30-year and 20-year returns are strong, but the five-year and ten-year readings are flat to slightly negative, which sets the borough apart from inner-London markets still grinding higher. An investor who bought at the December 2020 high is sitting about 8.0% down on the Land Registry average, while one who bought before 2016 holds a large gain. The income return and the postcode split, not a rising market, carry the case here.

• All property types
• Detached
• Semi-detached
• Terraced
• Flats

Source: HM Land Registry House Price Index

• All property types
• Detached
• Semi-detached
• Terraced
• Flats

Source: HM Land Registry House Price Index

Sold House Prices in Southwark

The average sold price across all property types in Southwark is £572,455, which is 97.4% above the England average of £289,946 as of April 2026. The premium widens sharply with the size of the home: detached houses cost 265.8% more than the England average, while flats, the type most investors here actually buy, cost 119.4% more. That spread matters because Southwark is overwhelmingly a flat borough away from the Dulwich streets at the bottom.

Detached houses at £1,721,044 are 265.8% above the England average, but they are rare in Southwark and concentrate almost entirely in the Dulwich postcodes at the southern tip of the borough. The figure reflects a small, expensive slice of stock rather than anything most investors will buy, and detached values rose 1.2% over the year.

Semi-detached houses at £1,215,320 carry the widest premium of all four types at 321.7% above England. These are the larger Victorian and Edwardian houses of Dulwich and East Dulwich, owner-occupier family homes that trade rarely and posted the strongest annual growth in the borough at 1.6%.

Terraced houses at £834,935 sit 242.5% above the England average. Southwark's terraces run through Camberwell, Peckham and East Dulwich, the period family-house end of the market, and they grew 1.8% over the year, the only type rising faster than inflation.

Flats and maisonettes at £470,801 are 119.4% above England, the narrowest premium of the four and the part of the market that defines Southwark as an investment. Flats dominate the stock from Borough through to Walworth and Rotherhithe, so the all-property average of £572,455 sits much closer to the flat figure than to any house type. Flat values fell 2.2% over the year, which is why the headline all-types reading was negative while the houses ticked up.

Price Per Square Foot in Southwark

£152 per square foot separates Southwark's cheapest postcode from its dearest, with SE5 at £663 and SE1 at £815. Pricing by the square foot strips out how large the homes are and shows what the location itself commands, which in Southwark tracks distance from the river closely. SE1 on the South Bank tops the table, reflecting its position on the City and West End fringe.

SE5 at £663 per square foot is the most affordable space in the borough, covering Camberwell and Denmark Hill in the centre of Southwark. Based on 518 transactions analysed, its rate sits about 19% below SE1's, the trade-off being a less central position than the riverside postcodes.

SE1 at £815 per square foot tops the table from 755 transactions, with East Dulwich's SE22 next at £791. SE1 wraps the South Bank and Bankside directly across the river from the City, where small central flats command the highest rate per square foot in Southwark, while SE22's high figure reflects the premium that the East Dulwich house market carries for space.

For Sale Asking Prices in Southwark

SE16 at £473,663 and SE1 at £714,030 sit 50.7% apart, the full width of Southwark's asking-price range. The hierarchy splits the borough into a cheaper central and southern band and a dearer riverside-and-Dulwich band, with the Rotherhithe and Camberwell postcodes the most affordable. The mean asking price across all seven postcodes is £588,476.

SE16 at £473,663 is the cheapest way into the borough, covering Rotherhithe and the Bermondsey docks where the Canada Water scheme is adding thousands of new flats. It sits just below SE5 in Camberwell at £477,979, and the two are effectively the entry point for a buyer working to a budget. Both sit below the borough's Land Registry sold average of £572,455.

SE1 at £714,030 is the most expensive, the South Bank and Borough market of small central flats facing the City across the river. The £240,367 step from SE16 to SE1 buys a far more central postcode rather than more space, and the yield tables below show what that premium does to the income return.

House Price Growth in Southwark

SE21 leads Southwark's recent growth with a five-year return of 18.7%, while SE1 sits at the other extreme down 26.2% over the same period. The growth table is the clearest expression of the borough's split: the southern Dulwich postcodes have risen while the central riverside flat markets have corrected since their 2020 high.

SE21 (Dulwich) posted a five-year return of 18.7% alongside a 20.2% three-year gain and 8.2% over the past year, the only postcode rising consistently across all three windows. The leafy, house-heavy Dulwich market behaved differently from the rest of the borough, holding and building value while the flats corrected. SE17 (Walworth) shows the strongest five-year figure at 22.1%, lifted by the Elephant & Castle regeneration, but its -16.8% one-year reading flags how uneven that postcode has been.

SE1 (South Bank, Borough) sits at the bottom, down 26.2% over five years and 13.6% over three. The central small-flat market here, heavily exposed to investor and overseas buyers, has corrected hardest as that demand thinned after the 2020 peak, a reminder that the dearest postcode per square foot is not the same as the best recent performer.

Monthly Property Sales in Southwark

Southwark records around 169 sales a month across its seven postcodes, with SE15 (Peckham) the busiest at 41 and SE21 (Dulwich) the quietest at 8. Transaction volumes and turnover vary widely, which shapes how easily an investor can buy now or sell later.

SE15 is the busiest market at 41 sales a month on 9% turnover, the highest in the borough, a deep and liquid postcode covering Peckham and Nunhead. For a buyer, more transactions mean more choice and more comparable evidence on price; for a future seller, they point to an easier exit. SE1 is close behind on volume at 38 sales a month, but on just 3% turnover, because its much larger stock of flats means a smaller share changes hands each year.

SE21 in Dulwich is the quietest at 8 sales a month, a tightly held owner-occupier market where houses rarely come up. Low volume there cuts both ways: little choice for a buyer, but stock that holds its value, as the growth table shows. The selling-times section below sets out how those volumes translate into how long a sale actually takes.

How Long Properties Take to Sell in Southwark

SE15 (Peckham) is the only Southwark postcode that reads as a balanced market, clearing in about 338 days, while SE1 carries roughly 33 months of unsold stock at the current rate of sale. Days on market is the typical time a home is listed before it sells, and months of unsold stock measures how much for-sale supply is queued at the current pace. A headline yield says nothing about how long your money is tied up at the end, and in Southwark that exit cost runs from under a year to nearly three. The table is ranked fastest first.

SE15 in Peckham clears fastest at about 338 days and 11.1 months of supply, the only postcode that registers as balanced rather than a buyer's market, which fits its position as the borough's busiest. At the other end, SE1 carries 33.3 months of unsold stock and takes around 1,014 days to sell, three times SE15's exit time. For an investor the slow riverside postcodes mean real room to negotiate on the way in, but a long and costly wait whenever the time comes to sell, so the entry discount has to be weighed against the holding cost on exit.

What Type of Property Can You Buy in Southwark?

Flats dominate the riverside and central postcodes, from 88.0% of stock in SE1 down to 32.9% in Dulwich's SE21, where houses make up the majority instead. The mix is the single most important fact about Southwark for a buy-to-let investor: this is a flat market across most of the borough, with a genuine house market only at the Dulwich end. The figures below are drawn from 2021 Census records for each postcode.

SE1 and SE17 are almost entirely flats, at 88.0% and 84.6%, the dense central postcodes around Borough, Bankside and Elephant & Castle where purpose-built blocks and converted period buildings make up nearly all the stock. These are the single-let and professional-sharer postcodes, with very little for an investor chasing a house.

SE21 in Dulwich is the outlier, the only postcode where flats fall to a minority at 32.9%, with detached and semi-detached houses together making up 46.0% of the stock. East Dulwich's SE22 is a halfway market at 53.1% flats and 18.6% semi-detached. A buyer wanting a house in Southwark is effectively shopping in those two postcodes and competing with owner-occupier families for it.

Flats combine purpose-built blocks and converted units, and a small share of other dwelling types is left out, so rows may not total 100%.

Southwark Rental Market Analysis

Monthly rents in Southwark range from £2,172 in SE15 to £2,920 in SE1, with gross rental yields from 4.1% to 6.0% across the seven postcodes. For investors weighing whether buy to let is worth it in a high-value borough where prices have stalled, the income return carries more of the case than usual, and the sections below break down rents, yields and tenant affordability postcode by postcode. Browse current buy-to-let homes for sale across the capital.

Average Rent & Gross Rental Yields in Southwark

Gross rental yields in Southwark run from 4.1% in SE22 to 6.0% in SE16. The cheaper central postcodes deliver the higher yields and the dearer Dulwich postcodes the lower, the same inverse relationship between price and income that runs through most of inner London. SE16 pairs the borough's lowest asking price with a solid rent to top the table.

SE16 tops the yield table at 6.0%, the only postcode at or above 6%, pairing the borough's lowest asking price of £473,663 with a £2,366 monthly rent in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey. A 30% deposit there is £142,099, the lowest figure in Southwark. SE5 in Camberwell and SE17 in Walworth follow at 5.6%, the next two cheapest entries.

SE22 in East Dulwich sits at the bottom of the yield table at 4.1%, where a £650,883 asking price meets a £2,230 rent. The Dulwich postcodes hold their value as family-friendly areas, but the income return is compressed by purchase prices that the rent does not keep pace with, the trade-off for buying into the part of the borough that has grown rather than corrected.

Gross Rental Yield by Postcode

SE166.0%

SE55.6%

SE175.6%

SE14.9%

SE154.9%

SE214.2%

SE224.1%

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Is Southwark Rent High?

Southwark rents consume between 53.5% and 72.0% of the local median individual salary, well above the 30% affordability benchmark and a clear marker of how the borough's rental market is priced. The common rule of thumb is that rent should take around 30% of gross income. No Southwark postcode comes close to that on a single median salary, which tells you who actually rents here.

The median gross weekly salary in Southwark is £936.20, which works out at £4,057 per month or £48,681 per year. That sits above the London median of £892.60 a week and well clear of the Great Britain median of £752.40. Data from the Nomis Labour Market Profile (ASHE 2025).

These figures compare a one-bedroom-or-larger market rent against a single resident's median pay, so they read high by design. In practice Southwark's renters are mostly couples and sharers pooling two or more incomes, which is how a borough with rents above £2,100 a month sustains the demand it does. SE15 in Peckham at 53.5% is the most affordable on this measure, where the borough's lowest rent meets the same median salary.

How Big Is Southwark's Private Rented Sector?

The private rented sector is deepest in SE1 and SE16, where it accounts for 37.7% and 35.4% of households, and shallowest in Dulwich's SE21 at 17.9%. The share of homes already rented privately is a guide to how large and established the local tenant pool is, and across Southwark it sits alongside an unusually large social-rented sector, a legacy of the borough's extensive council estates. The table below shows household tenure by postcode.

SE1 and SE16 hold the largest private rented sectors at 37.7% and 35.4%, the riverside postcodes where renting is the default tenure for the City and Canary Wharf professionals who fill the new-build flats. A deep rented sector points to a tested, liquid lettings market rather than an untried one.

Social renting runs high across most of the borough, from 36.4% in SE16 up to 48.5% in Walworth's SE17, a legacy of Southwark's large council estates and far above the national norm. Dulwich is the exception, where outright ownership reaches 36.5% in SE21 and the private rented share drops to 17.9%, an owner-occupier market quite unlike the rest of the borough. That split is why tenant demand in Southwark is broad rather than uniform, shifting from professional renters near the river to a benefit-supported base further south.

Local Housing Allowance Rates in Southwark

All seven Southwark postcodes fall in the single Inner South East London Broad Rental Market Area, so the Local Housing Allowance rates are uniform across the borough, from £149.59 a week for a room to £604.11 for a four-bed. Local Housing Allowance is the most a tenant on housing support can claim towards rent, so for that part of the market it sets an effective floor. To check the figure for a specific address, use the government's official Local Housing Allowance calculator.

The two-bedroom rate of £356.71 a week works out at about £1,546 a month, well below Southwark's open-market rents of £2,172 to £2,920. A benefit-backed tenancy at the LHA rate therefore sits a long way under the borough's market rents, with the gap widest in the central riverside postcodes where rents are highest. Given Southwark's large social-rented and lower-income population, the LHA floor matters more here than in most inner-London boroughs, particularly in Walworth and Peckham. These rates are the June 2026 figures and are reset each April.

Buy-to-Let Considerations

Are House Prices High in Southwark? Price-to-Earnings Ratios

Buying in Southwark takes between 9.7 and 14.7 times the local median salary, with every postcode well above the national benchmark. This is based on the Nomis Labour Market Profile for Southwark, which puts the median gross annual income for residents at £48,681.

The national benchmark for price-to-earnings is 7.4x (England's average sold price of £289,946 divided by the Great Britain median annual salary of £39,125). No Southwark postcode comes close to that, which puts the whole borough firmly in expensive territory relative to local incomes, even before the deposit and purchase costs are added.

SE16 and SE5 are the most affordable on this measure at 9.7x and 9.8x, still well above the national 7.4x. Even the cheapest way into Rotherhithe or Camberwell takes nearly ten years of the local median salary, a reminder that Southwark buyers rarely rely on a single local wage.

SE1 at 14.7x is the least affordable, with SE21 in Dulwich just behind at 14.5x. The two reach the same point by different routes: SE1 through the premium of small central flats by the river, SE21 through the value of the Dulwich house market. Both sit at the bottom of the yield table for the same reason, a purchase price the rent struggles to keep up with.

Deposit Requirements in Southwark

A 30% deposit on a buy-to-let in Southwark ranges from £142,099 in SE16 to £214,209 in SE1. The £72,110 gap between the cheapest and dearest deposit is itself larger than a full deposit in much of the country. For investors comparing Southwark with the rest of London, these deposits sit above the outer-London boroughs but below the prime western neighbours of Westminster and Kensington.

Beyond the deposit, the stamp duty calculation and other buy-to-let running costs add materially to the capital required, particularly at Southwark's price points where the surcharge on additional property runs into five figures on its own.

SE16 keeps the entry cost down at a £142,099 deposit, and SE5 is within about £1,300 of it. Rotherhithe and Camberwell are the practical starting point for an investor working to a budget, pairing the two lowest deposits with the joint-highest yields in the borough at 6.0% and 5.6%.

At the top, SE1 needs a £214,209 deposit, around £72,000 more than SE16, for a postcode that earns less per pound through the rent and takes by far the longest to sell. The extra deposit buys a riverside Borough address rather than a stronger investment return.

What the Southwark Data Tells Buy-to-Let Investors

In Southwark the cheapest postcodes are also the highest-yielding. SE16 (Rotherhithe, Bermondsey) carries the top yield at 6.0% and is also the cheapest way in, at a £473,663 asking price for an investment property in Southwark, and the most affordable against local earnings at 9.7 times income. A 30% deposit there is £142,099, the lowest in the borough, for a home renting at £2,366 a month, with the Canada Water scheme adding thousands of new flats and jobs on its doorstep.

The borough splits cleanly in two, and the data draws the line. The central and riverside flat postcodes, SE1, SE16 and SE17, run the higher yields but have corrected since 2020, with SE1 down 26.2% over five years. The southern Dulwich house postcodes, SE21 and SE22, run the lower yields but have grown, SE21 up 18.7% over five years. Income points north to Rotherhithe and Walworth; capital preservation points south to Dulwich.

The flat-dominated stock is the defining feature across most of the borough. Flats make up between 65.5% and 88.0% of homes in five of the seven postcodes, and the all-property sold average of £572,455 sits close to the flat figure of £470,801 rather than the far higher house prices. Only in Dulwich does a genuine house market exist, and that is where the recent capital growth has been.

Set against the rest of inner London, Southwark carries a high deposit and its prices have been broadly flat: roughly flat over five years and down over ten, and about 8.0% below its December 2020 high. Over those windows rental demand has stayed firm while capital values have moved little. With most postcodes registering as buyers' markets and SE1 carrying 33 months of unsold stock, there is room to negotiate on the way in, and the keenest prices tend to sit in below market value and off-market property channels rather than on the open portals.

How Southwark Compares

Southwark's mean asking price of £588,476 places it just above its inner-south-London neighbours Lambeth and Lewisham but below Wandsworth, while its top yield of 6.0% is the joint-highest of the four with Lewisham. The comparison below sets Southwark alongside three nearby boroughs, each with a different balance of price and income return. Mean asking price and mean monthly rent are simple averages across all postcodes with data, and top gross yield is the single highest postcode yield in each borough.

Southwark and Lambeth are near-identical on price, at £588,476 and £587,762, the two mid-table boroughs in this group, but Southwark edges ahead on both rent and top yield, reaching 6.0% against Lambeth's 5.6%. The two share a border and a profile: inner-south-London boroughs with deep rental demand, large social sectors, and a mix of riverside flats and leafier southern streets.

Lewisham matches Southwark's 6.0% top yield from a much lower £490,640 average, making it the cheaper route to the same headline income return, while Wandsworth is the most expensive at £663,635 and the lowest-yielding at 5.3%, the prime south-west London trade-off of higher prices and stronger demand for less income. For investors prioritising yield from a smaller deposit, Lewisham makes the case; for those wanting Southwark's central position and regeneration pipeline, the premium over Lewisham buys it. For a data-driven comparison across the whole country, see our best places to invest in buy-to-let guide.

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