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Whitechapel market report E1 8, London
The E1 8 (Whitechapel) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,911 HM Land Registry entries for E1 8 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical E1 8 (London) home changed hands for £522,700 in 2026 (median of 20 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £595,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,911 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like E1 8 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 8 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 8
The 2026 median for E1 8 is £522,700, taken from 20 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £595,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
E1 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, E1 8 homes have averaged around £8,720 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so E1 8 trades 83% above the country as a whole.
E1 8's median sold price, 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 | £522,700 | £522,700 | 20 |
| 2025 | £560,000 | £573,391 | 55 |
| 2024 | £575,000 | £611,343 | 61 |
| 2023 | £540,000 | £593,328 | 52 |
| 2022 | £603,500 | £707,673 | 78 |
| 2021 | £520,000 | £658,387 | 87 |
| 2020 | £645,900 | £838,069 | 158 |
| 2019 | £795,500 | £1,042,710 | 344 |
| 2018 | £871,800 | £1,162,126 | 180 |
| 2017 | £762,800 | £1,040,383 | 194 |
| 2016 | £640,000 | £895,366 | 104 |
| 2015 | £622,500 | £879,593 | 197 |
| 2014 | £517,500 | £734,164 | 210 |
| 2013 | £480,000 | £690,672 | 173 |
| 2012 | £391,200 | £575,798 | 92 |
| 2011 | £330,000 | £498,173 | 86 |
| 2010 | £340,000 | £533,208 | 81 |
| 2009 | £378,900 | £609,085 | 84 |
| 2008 | £390,000 | £639,292 | 149 |
| 2007 | £330,000 | £559,772 | 128 |
| 2006 | £280,000 | £486,044 | 98 |
| 2005 | £247,500 | £440,450 | 97 |
| 2004 | £223,800 | £406,465 | 74 |
| 2003 | £220,000 | £405,293 | 87 |
| 2002 | £235,000 | £442,150 | 125 |
| 2001 | £195,000 | £374,878 | 175 |
| 2000 | £180,000 | £353,250 | 115 |
| 1999 | £145,000 | £288,977 | 168 |
| 1998 | £145,000 | £292,693 | 201 |
| 1997 | £123,100 | £252,453 | 113 |
| 1996 | £84,500 | £178,207 | 58 |
| 1995 | £110,000 | £239,123 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical E1 8 home went from £110,000 in 1995 to £522,700 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 119%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 55% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the E1 8 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 1997 (+45.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−23.2%). 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) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.0% | −5.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 20 E1 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 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 8 is
This is a thin market: 20 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. Within E1, this sector trades 16% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around E1 8
For renting purposes E1 8 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.
Set against the £522,700 median sold price, £2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: E1 8 (Whitechapel)
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The questions people bring to E1 8 (Whitechapel)
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as E1 8HT. 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.
Are E1 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: E prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the E area, 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of E1, each linking to its own report:
| 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 4 | £420,000 | 28 |
| E1 5 | £450,000 | 18 |
| E1 6 | £530,000 | 23 |
| E1 7 | £860,000 | 7 |
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 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at E1 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim E1 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with E1 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E1 8 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.
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.