Clapham Property Market Worth More Than Derwent London

The value of all the homes in Clapham (or SW4 to be precise) has risen by more than 324% in the past two decades, to £3.391bn, meaning its worth more than the stock listed company Derwent London, which is worth £3.306bn. Those Clapham homeowners and Buy-to-Let landlords who bought their homes twenty or more years ago have come out on top, adding thousands and thousands of pounds to the value of their own Clapham homes as the younger generation in Clapham continue to be priced out of the market. This is even more remarkable because, in those twenty years, we had the years of 2008 and 2009 following the global financial crisis, where we saw a short term drop in Clapham house prices of between 15% and 20% (depending on the type of property). And although there have been a number of consecutive years of growth in property values recently in Clapham it hasn’t been anywhere near the levels seen in the early 2000’s. Twenty years ago, the total value of Clapham property was worth