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Whitechapel market report E1 2, London
The standing E1 2 (Whitechapel) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,046 sales registered with HM Land Registry in E1 2 (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 7 registered 2026 sales put the E1 2 (London) median at £475,000, down 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £451,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,460 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,046 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
E1 2 is one sector of E1 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where E1 2 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What E1 2 homes really sell for
7 sales were registered in E1 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £475,000. The mean works out at £451,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in E1 2
By floor space, homes in E1 2 have sold for about £7,460 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving E1 2 67% above the national figure.
E1 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 7 |
| 2025 | £400,200 | £409,770 | 39 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 47 |
| 2023 | £584,500 | £642,223 | 178 |
| 2022 | £527,500 | £618,554 | 163 |
| 2021 | £540,500 | £684,343 | 183 |
| 2020 | £422,500 | £548,202 | 28 |
| 2019 | £397,500 | £521,027 | 32 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 20 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 36 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 40 |
| 2015 | £386,200 | £545,701 | 42 |
| 2014 | £328,500 | £466,035 | 62 |
| 2013 | £292,000 | £420,159 | 91 |
| 2012 | £249,000 | £366,497 | 50 |
| 2011 | £238,000 | £359,288 | 43 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 45 |
| 2009 | £260,000 | £417,952 | 23 |
| 2008 | £272,500 | £446,685 | 66 |
| 2007 | £238,000 | £403,714 | 100 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 71 |
| 2005 | £197,200 | £350,937 | 68 |
| 2004 | £182,500 | £331,456 | 141 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 51 |
| 2002 | £176,200 | £331,519 | 62 |
| 2001 | £122,000 | £234,539 | 53 |
| 2000 | £122,400 | £240,210 | 87 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 47 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 58 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 41 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 44 |
| 1995 | £62,500 | £135,865 | 28 |
In cash terms the typical E1 2 home went from £62,500 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 250%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E1 2 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+49.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−23.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +18.7% | +15.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.6% | −7.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in E1 2
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 7 E1 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 87 sales a year over the last five years against 79 before the financial crisis. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around E1 2
For renting purposes E1 2 sits in Tower Hamlets. The ONS average private rent there is £2,419 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,964 a month here against £3,335 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tower Hamlets
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £475,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,419 a month (£29,028 a year) works out at a 6.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How E1 2 trades
Only 7 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes E1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
E1 2 (Whitechapel): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in E1 2 (Whitechapel)?
Is E1 2 (Whitechapel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E1 2 (Whitechapel)?
What happens to E1 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 31% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in E1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 85 homes on the market right now, from 17 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E1 district, not just E1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every E1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in E: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the E area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £545,000 | £820,000 (+50%) | £1,197,500 (+46%) | — |
| Semi-detached | £435,000 | £530,000 (+22%) | £650,000 (+23%) | £900,000 (+38%) | £1,205,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £435,000 | £525,000 (+21%) | £643,000 (+22%) | £842,000 (+31%) | £1,150,000 (+37%) |
| Flat | £372,500 | £490,000 (+32%) | £695,000 (+42%) | £1,095,000 (+58%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the E area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
E area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in E1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are E1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E1 0 | £425,000 | 19 |
| E1 1 | £422,500 | 12 |
| E1 3 | £349,800 | 14 |
| E1 4 | £420,000 | 28 |
| E1 5 | £450,000 | 18 |
| E1 6 | £530,000 | 23 |
| E1 7 | £860,000 | 7 |
| E1 8 | £522,700 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full E1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how E1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in E1 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in E1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the E1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded E1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim E1 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about E1 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual E1 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.