Wimbledon still home to highest house price premium of all Grand Slam venues

Wimbledon is back to its brilliant best this year after last year’s tournament was restricted by the pandemic, and ahead of the tennis’s greatest tournament, research from London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, reveals that Wimbledon continues to dominate its Grand Slam counterparts in the housing market as well as on the court. 

Benham and Reeves has analysed house prices and price growth across the four Grand Slam venues – Melbourne, Australia; Paris, France; New York City, USA, and London, England. 

The research shows that the French Open aces the rest when it comes to having the most expensive Grand Slam homes in the current market. The tournament is played in Paris’s 16th Arrondissement where the average house price is an impressive £735,001. 

SW19 in London, the famous home of Wimbledon, serves up an average house price of £694,407 while Flushing Meadows in Queens, NYC, home of the US Open, commands an average price of £494,358. Prices surrounding the Australian Open’s Melbourne Park venue average out at £320,740, the most affordable of the lot. 

In terms of local house price growth in the past year, it’s the US Open that takes the glory with growth of 27.6%, followed by Wimbledon (12.6%), the French Open (9%), and the Australian Open (8.6%). 

However, Wimbledon easily remains the most prestigious Grand Slam location in the world when it comes to the premium paid for properties in the surrounding area. Homes in the SW19 postcode are, on average, 23% more expensive than those in the wider borough of Merton – the cash equivalent of £129,658. 

The only other tournament to boast a positive local house price premium is the French Open with prices in Paris’s 16th Arrondissement 7.9% higher than the overall city average. 

Meanwhile, house prices surrounding both the US and Australian Opens are significantly cheaper than the wider surrounding areas. In Flushing Meadows, prices are -5.1% less than those in wider Queens, while prices in Richmond/Southbank, home of Melbourne Park, are -32.5% less than the wider Melbourne City average.  

Director of Benham and Reeves, Marc von Grundherr, commented:

“No other tennis Grand Slam venue carries the prestige of Wimbledon and so it goes without saying that no other surrounding property market carries the same price premiums. 

The London property market hasn’t performed at the same level as the rest of the UK during the pandemic property market boom and so top line values in SW19 are perhaps a little muted. But despite this, buyers continue to pay above and beyond to live within arm’s reach of the world’s most famous and respected tennis venue.”

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