A typical Peckham home sells for about £540,000, and what that buys depends on whether you get your own front door. Flats come in well under it. Terraced houses come in well over it. Semis barely turn up at all, and when one does the price starts with a one.
The Land Registry recorded 465 sales in the year to May 2026, with a typical price of about £540,000. Flats made up the bulk of them, 301 sales at about £445,000. Terraced houses went for about £847,000 across 143 sales, and semi-detached houses for about £1,195,000, with only 20 changing hands all year. Spotting a semi for sale in Peckham is closer to birdwatching than house-hunting.
Prices have barely moved. The UK house price index for the area rose about 0.9% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £579,000, and the index for flats on their own showed no change at all over the same year. Nobody should build a strategy around nine-tenths of a percent. Flats ended the year exactly where they started, which for anyone who spent that year saving a deposit is the best line on the page.
Council tax is gentler than the prices suggest. Band B is the most common band in Peckham, and about 40% of homes sit in bands A or B. Southwark's band D bill is about £1,967 a year, the easiest figure to hold against your current one. The district's mix of bands tells you little about any one flat, so look up that flat's own band on the Valuation Office Agency's list while the offer is still a conversation.
Renting is the other way in, and Southwark sets the benchmark: typical private rent across the borough is about £2,400 a month as of April 2026, up about 1.3% on a year earlier. By size, the borough averages about £1,815 for a one-bed, £2,273 for a two-bed, £2,641 for a three-bed and £3,494 for four bedrooms or more. These are means from the Office for National Statistics' rent index for all of Southwark, and they cover streets dearer and cheaper than Peckham's. No studio or room figure is published.
Then the income side. The Office for National Statistics modelled average household income in Peckham at about £68,000 gross, before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, and at about £49,000 once tax comes off. Both figures are averaged across the district's neighbourhoods, and both are now a few years old. On those numbers a flat is a stretch, and a terrace needs help from somewhere other than a payslip.
Measured by space, the typical sale went for about £8,200 a square metre over the same year, on a typical floor area of about 92 square metres. That covers about 58% of sales, the ones that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, so the rest are missing from it. It is still the most useful number to hold against a listing whose floor plan measures the hallway twice.
The homes themselves are small and medium. In the 2021 Census about 28% of households had one bedroom, about 34% had two, about 26% had three and about 12% had four or more. The two-bed is Peckham's standard unit, and that is the size most buyers here will be bidding against each other for.
For London it lands in the middle: flats are within reach of a good household income with a deposit behind it, and houses belong to people who already owned one.