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Whitechapel market report E1 3, London
The E1 3 (Whitechapel) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,124 HM Land Registry entries for E1 3 (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 14 registered 2026 sales put the E1 3 (London) median at £349,800, down 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £375,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,900 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,124 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
E1 3 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 3 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 buyers actually paid in E1 3
The 2026 median for E1 3 is £349,800, taken from 14 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £375,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in E1 3
By floor space, homes in E1 3 have sold for about £6,900 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so E1 3 trades 23% above the country as a whole.
E1 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £349,800 | £349,800 | 14 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 45 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 39 |
| 2023 | £398,800 | £438,184 | 54 |
| 2022 | £452,500 | £530,608 | 70 |
| 2021 | £449,000 | £568,492 | 43 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 31 |
| 2019 | £442,000 | £579,356 | 38 |
| 2018 | £387,500 | £516,545 | 38 |
| 2017 | £470,000 | £641,033 | 25 |
| 2016 | £383,800 | £536,940 | 44 |
| 2015 | £367,000 | £518,571 | 51 |
| 2014 | £365,000 | £517,816 | 98 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 151 |
| 2012 | £273,000 | £401,822 | 45 |
| 2011 | £285,000 | £430,240 | 51 |
| 2010 | £260,000 | £407,747 | 63 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 35 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 60 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 110 |
| 2006 | £220,900 | £383,454 | 141 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 103 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 130 |
| 2003 | £169,800 | £312,813 | 78 |
| 2002 | £159,800 | £300,662 | 90 |
| 2001 | £132,800 | £255,301 | 126 |
| 2000 | £117,000 | £229,613 | 60 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 68 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 73 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 69 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 43 |
| 1995 | £42,200 | £91,736 | 38 |
In cash terms the typical E1 3 home went from £42,200 in 1995 to £349,800 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 281%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 45% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the E1 3 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 1996 (+42.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−17.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.7% | −16.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.9% | −9.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.9% | −4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
E1 3 recorded 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 105 sales a year before the financial crisis and 44 a year over the last five. 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 homes rent for around E1 3
For renting purposes E1 3 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 £349,800 median purchase price, a rent of £2,419 a month (£29,028 a year) works out at a 8.3% 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 3 trades
This is a thin market: 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the E1 district median, E1 3 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about E1 3 (Whitechapel)
Is E1 3 (Whitechapel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E1 3 (Whitechapel)?
Are property prices falling in E1 3 (Whitechapel)?
Where do E1 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 38% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in E1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 85 homes currently on the market from 17 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E1 district, not just E1 3: 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every E1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in E
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the E area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the E area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in E1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of E1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E1 0 | £425,000 | 19 |
| E1 1 | £422,500 | 12 |
| E1 2 | £475,000 | 7 |
| 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.
Selling in E1 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in E1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from E1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded E1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim E1 3.
Go deeper
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See every individual E1 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.