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Greater London

The London property market

The UK’s largest and most fragmented market — value swings street by street.

London is not one market but hundreds. A budget that buys a one-bed flat in zone 2 buys a family house an hour out, and prices can double across a single borough boundary. That is why a city-wide average means little here — the only number worth acting on is the one for your exact postcode.

Typical sold price

£275,000

Range £182,000–£556,500 · 750 real sales

HM Land Registry data across E1, N1, SE1. Scroll for the full data dashboard.

The data, honestly

London property data dashboard

Every figure here is real and sourced — no estimates, no made-up “valuations”. Each panel updates on its source's own schedule and shows an honest note when data is temporarily unavailable.

Typical sold price

£275,000

Middle 80% from £182,000 to £556,500

Sample

750

real sales

Based on real HM Land Registry sales across E1, N1, SE1. Updated on the HM Land Registry cadence.

Council tax (Band D)

£1,050

Westminster · 2026-27

Bands range £700 (A) to £2,099 (H). Check a band

Reported crime

4366

incidents within ~1 mile · 2026-05

  • other theft932
  • theft from the person824
  • violent crime679

Flood warnings

None

No warnings or alerts in force (~15km)

Live status, not long-term risk. Check long-term risk

Typical EPC band

C

most common across 80 nearby certificates

An area pattern from registered certificates — never a specific home's rating.

Area profile

On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 8 of 10 — where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.

Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · data.police.uk · Environment Agency · MHCLG · English Indices of Deprivation

Sold prices by postcode

Full postcode reports

Every free check for a London postcode in one place — sold prices plus crime, flood, council tax, planning and schools.

Neighbourhoods to know

Where London buyers and investors look

E8

Hackney

Period terraces and strong owner-occupier demand in the east.

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SE15

Peckham

Regeneration story with younger-buyer momentum.

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SW9

Brixton

Well-connected zone 2 with mixed Victorian stock.

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N16

Stoke Newington

Family-favoured north London village feel.

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The market in context

Understanding London

Because London is so internally varied, headline “London” figures are almost meaningless for a real decision. Two streets in the same postcode district can sit in different price worlds depending on the station, the school catchment and the housing stock. Always pull the sold prices for the specific outward you are looking at rather than relying on a borough or city number.

The capital’s scale also means liquidity is high: there is almost always a buyer at the right price, which matters if you need a quick or certain sale. The flip side is high transaction costs — stamp duty bites hardest here — so the maths on a fast or below-market sale is different from the rest of the country.

For investors, yields are typically lower than the North while the depth of rental demand is unmatched. Whatever your strategy, treat the live data below as the starting point and verify everything at street level before committing.

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London property guides

Honest, practical guidance for every situation — nine in-depth guides, each anchored in London's real local data and our free tools.

Sell your house fast in London“Sell fast” can mean a genuine cash purchase in two weeks or a well-priced open-market sale in two months. The right answer depends on how much speed you actually need and how much value you are willing to trade for it. Here is the honest version — no pressure, no inflated promises — anchored in real London sold prices.House prices & market in LondonWhat is actually selling in London, and for how much? This page is built on real HM Land Registry transactions — not portal “estimates” or asking prices — so you can see the typical price, the realistic range and which way the market has been moving.Selling an inherited property in LondonSelling a home you have inherited in London comes with a few extra steps — probate, tax and an empty property to look after — but none of them need to be overwhelming. Here is a calm, honest walk-through, with real local data so you can value the property properly.Selling during divorce in LondonThe family home is usually the largest asset in a separation, and decisions about it are easier when both people are working from the same honest numbers. This is a practical, neutral guide to the options in London — with real local data to ground the conversation.Selling a leasehold flat in LondonLeasehold flats sell perfectly well — but the lease itself can make or break the deal. Knowing your lease length, ground rent and service charges before you market in London puts you in control and prevents nasty surprises late in the process.Selling with tenants in situ in LondonAs a London landlord you have a genuine choice: sell with the tenants in situ to another investor, or sell with vacant possession to the wider market. Each route has a different buyer, timeline and price — here is how to decide.Selling a problem property in LondonSome homes are hard to sell through the usual channels — subsidence, a short lease, structural issues, damp, non-standard construction, or simply uninhabitable. They are not unsellable; they just need the right route and an honest price. Here is how to approach it in London.Best areas to live in London“Best” depends on what you need — schools, a commute, nightlife, value, or peace and quiet. Rather than hand you a ranked list that ignores your priorities, this guide explains the London neighbourhoods to know and gives you the live data to compare them on what matters to you.Buy-to-let & yields in LondonLondon attracts plenty of investor interest, but “is it a good buy-to-let city?” is the wrong question — the right one is “does this specific deal work?”. Here is what drives London's rental market and how to underwrite a purchase honestly, with live local prices to start from.

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Questions, answered

Selling and buying in London: your questions

How do I find out what homes in London actually sold for?
Every completed sale in England and Wales is recorded by HM Land Registry, and we surface those real figures — not estimates — for E1 and the other London districts on our sold-prices pages. You see the price each property genuinely changed hands for, with the sample size behind any median, so you are reading the market as it actually traded rather than an algorithm's guess.
Are online “instant valuations” for London accurate?
Treat them as a starting point, not a fact. An instant valuation is a model's estimate, and two tools will happily disagree by tens of thousands of pounds on the same London home. We deliberately never show a single made-up number — instead we show the real sold prices nearby and the honest range around them, which is the figure buyers, surveyors and cash purchasers actually work from.
How quickly can I sell a house in London?
It depends entirely on the route. A genuine cash purchase can complete in two to three weeks but pays below market value for that certainty; a well-priced open-market sale in London usually takes longer but nets the most; auction sits in between with a fixed timetable. Our “sell your house fast” guide for London walks through the real trade-offs without the pressure.
What does it cost to sell a home in London?
Expect estate-agent fees, conveyancing, an EPC and any early-repayment charge on your mortgage; a cash or auction sale trades some of that for a lower headline price. Our free cost-of-selling and stamp-duty tools let you put real London numbers in and see what you would actually walk away with.
Which London neighbourhoods should I look at?
Hackney, Peckham, Brixton and Stoke Newington each behave differently on price and demand, which is why we link every London district straight to its own sold-price page rather than quoting one city-wide average. Read each area at outward-code level — E1, N1, SE1 and the rest — to see where value and competition really sit.
Is the data on this London page an estimate?
No. Every hard figure on this page comes from a named public source — HM Land Registry for sold prices, the council for tax bands, the police and Environment Agency for crime and flood risk, and the official register for EPC ratings. When a source is briefly unavailable we say so plainly and show the rest, rather than filling the gap with a number we invented.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · postcodes.io / ONS · data.police.uk · Environment Agency · MHCLG council tax · English Indices of Deprivation (England). All figures are real and attributed — never estimates. About Your Property Check.

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