A typical home in Camberwell sells for about £481,000, and the home in question is usually a flat. Flats go for around £430,000. Terraced houses cost about twice as much again. Houses barely come up at all. The headline price only stays reasonable because most of what sells is a set of rooms up a shared staircase.
The Land Registry recorded 308 sales in Camberwell in the year to May 2026, at a typical price of about £481,000. Flats made up 241 of them, at around £430,000. The 47 terraced houses went for about £915,000, the 15 semis for about £1,396,000 and the five detached houses for around £1,950,000. Five detached sales and fifteen semis in a whole year is barely a market. Most of Camberwell's buying is done one floor at a time.
The published house price index covering the area put the average at about £579,000 in May 2026, up 0.9% on a year earlier. That is a small rise, and nobody should get excited about it. Flats on the same index changed by 0% over the twelve months. The flat market spent the year holding its breath, and it is still holding it.
Council tax is gentler than the prices. Band B is the most common band, and about 40% of homes are in Band A or B. A Band D bill runs to about £1,967 a year and Band A to about £1,312, so the bill on a typical Camberwell flat is one of the few numbers here that will not make a buyer wince.
Renting in Camberwell is priced at Southwark level. The Office for National Statistics index puts a typical private rent across the borough at about £2,400 a month in April 2026, and that figure is an average across Southwark, not a median of the listings in Camberwell itself. By size, a one-bed averaged about £1,815 a month, a two-bed about £2,273, a three-bed about £2,641 and four bedrooms or more about £3,494. There is no reliable figure for studios or single rooms, so the published scale starts at a one-bed.
Household income here is modelled at about £73,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Against a £430,000 flat that is a stretch, though a manageable one for two earners with a deposit. Against a £915,000 terrace it is a different problem. On that income a flat means a long mortgage, and a house means a conversation with parents.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 45% of them, the median price was about £7,600 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 82 square metres. At that rate the hallway and the box room cost real money, and a floor plan with generous corridors is a floor plan someone else paid to heat. Flat buyers should ask for the sold prices in the same block, because the borough average says very little about one stairwell.
The bedroom mix matches the stock. At the 2021 census, about 28% of Camberwell households had one bedroom, 37% two, 23% three and 12% four or more. Two bedrooms is the most common size here, and a fourth bedroom is uncommon enough that a family who needs one will be competing with every other family who does.
Camberwell's prices are middling for this part of London. A flat is within reach of two decent incomes, and a house mostly belongs to buyers who arrived with equity from somewhere else.