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Whitechapel market report E1 4, London
The E1 4 (Whitechapel) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,496 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in E1 4 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for E1 4 (London) is £420,000, from 28 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £442,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,000 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,496 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like E1 4 is a single group of streets within E1 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where E1 4 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.
E1 4 sold prices: where the market stands
In the E1 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £420,000, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £442,600, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in E1 4
By floor space, homes in E1 4 have sold for about £7,000 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 4 47% above the national figure.
A typical E1 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 98 |
| 2024 | £422,500 | £449,204 | 82 |
| 2023 | £402,000 | £441,700 | 63 |
| 2022 | £422,500 | £495,429 | 75 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 94 |
| 2020 | £468,000 | £607,240 | 55 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 58 |
| 2018 | £376,500 | £501,882 | 68 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 55 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 91 |
| 2015 | £368,000 | £519,984 | 113 |
| 2014 | £343,000 | £486,605 | 210 |
| 2013 | £310,000 | £446,059 | 217 |
| 2012 | £255,000 | £375,328 | 81 |
| 2011 | £226,000 | £341,173 | 70 |
| 2010 | £244,500 | £383,439 | 96 |
| 2009 | £247,500 | £397,858 | 75 |
| 2008 | £242,500 | £397,509 | 71 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 177 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 186 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 151 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 131 |
| 2003 | £161,200 | £296,969 | 140 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 125 |
| 2001 | £139,000 | £267,220 | 174 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 157 |
| 1999 | £85,700 | £170,796 | 170 |
| 1998 | £66,200 | £133,629 | 104 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 103 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 79 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical E1 4 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 233%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the E1 4 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 (+45.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.5% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | 0.0% | −3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in E1 4
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
E1 4 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market E1 4 is
This is a thin market: 28 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. 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.
Rents around E1 4
The local authority for E1 4 is Tower Hamlets, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,419 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,964 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,335 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Tower Hamlets
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, which against the £420,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people search before landing on E1 4 (Whitechapel)
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as E1 4RD. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What people ask about E1 4 (Whitechapel)
Are property prices falling in E1 4 (Whitechapel)?
Is E1 4 (Whitechapel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E1 4 (Whitechapel)?
Will E1 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in E1 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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every E1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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 3 | £349,800 | 14 |
| 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 4? 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 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from E1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded E1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim E1 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to E1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E1 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.