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Whitechapel market report E1, London
The standing E1 (Whitechapel) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 22,486 registered sales in E1 (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for E1 (London) is £449,200, from 184 registered sales, down 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £502,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,920 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 22,486 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
E1 is the postcode district covering Whitechapel in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where E1 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 a home in E1 sells for
Across 184 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) E1 home went for £449,200. The mean is £502,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in E1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in E1 costs about £7,920 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, E1 sits 58% above the national market.
A typical E1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £449,200 | £449,200 | 184 |
| 2025 | £463,800 | £474,891 | 402 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 415 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 501 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 603 |
| 2021 | £512,500 | £648,891 | 597 |
| 2020 | £545,000 | £707,149 | 461 |
| 2019 | £663,800 | £870,083 | 678 |
| 2018 | £570,000 | £759,821 | 476 |
| 2017 | £580,000 | £791,062 | 517 |
| 2016 | £536,000 | £749,869 | 610 |
| 2015 | £500,000 | £706,500 | 819 |
| 2014 | £411,000 | £583,075 | 1,262 |
| 2013 | £340,200 | £489,514 | 1,014 |
| 2012 | £304,600 | £448,333 | 693 |
| 2011 | £305,000 | £460,433 | 641 |
| 2010 | £285,000 | £446,953 | 535 |
| 2009 | £282,500 | £454,121 | 489 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 664 |
| 2007 | £255,000 | £432,551 | 1,094 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 1,022 |
| 2005 | £212,000 | £377,275 | 808 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 965 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 757 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 851 |
| 2001 | £168,000 | £322,971 | 977 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 1,010 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 1,091 |
| 1998 | £115,000 | £232,136 | 813 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 671 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 481 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 385 |
In cash terms the typical E1 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £449,200 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 244%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 48% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E1 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 1998 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−17.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What E1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.6% | −7.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −3.2% | −7.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.8% | −5.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 90% of the typed total. In 2000, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £245,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 1.6 times the price.
Median by property type, E1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £245,000 (2000) | – | 6 |
| Semi-detached | £416,000 (2010) | – | 85 |
| Terraced | £735,000 | 14 | 2,041 |
| Flats | £440,000 | 169 | 20,290 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
E1 recorded 303 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 936 sales a year before the financial crisis and 421 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around E1
The local authority for E1 is Tower Hamlets, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,419 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,964 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,335, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tower Hamlets
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £449,200 median sold price, £2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, a gross yield of 6.5%: 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.
What kind of market E1 is
The stock is flat-led: flats and maisonettes were 87% of last year's sales, so the headline median tracks the flat market more than the house market.
What people ask about E1 (Whitechapel)
Are property prices falling in E1 (Whitechapel)?
Is E1 (Whitechapel) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E1 (Whitechapel)?
Will E1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 31% 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
Everything above is what homes in E1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 53 homes at the moment, listed by 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the E1 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (303 in E1), the 53 homes listed here amount to about 2 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
Of everything listed here, 19% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Londinium Tower, 87 Mansell Street, Aldgate, London
- Princelet Street, London
- Quaker Street, Shoreditch
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.
E1: the homes on offer and the homes that go
In E1, terraced homes made up 10% of recent sales yet only 0% of today's listings. Demand outrunning supply for a type is the clearest sign a fairly priced one will go quickly.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 0% | 10% |
| Flats | 100% | 90% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (6 of them here).
The E1 sales calendar
March is when E1 changes hands most (13.0% of the 2,518 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 5.6%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 141 | 5.6% |
| February | 156 | 6.2% |
| March | 327 | 13.0% |
| April | 184 | 7.3% |
| May | 176 | 7.0% |
| June | 249 | 9.9% |
| July | 190 | 7.5% |
| August | 237 | 9.4% |
| September | 302 | 12.0% |
| October | 216 | 8.6% |
| November | 191 | 7.6% |
| December | 149 | 5.9% |
What another bedroom costs 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 | — | — | £620,000 | £890,000 (+44%) | £1,169,324 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £435,000 | £525,000 (+21%) | £624,500 (+19%) | £822,500 (+32%) | £1,080,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £440,000 | £520,000 (+18%) | £595,000 (+14%) | £725,000 (+22%) | £775,000 (+7%) |
| Flat | £360,000 | £450,000 (+25%) | £555,000 (+23%) | £680,000 (+23%) | £900,000 (+32%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
E1 ranks 16 of 20 in the E area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the E area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside E1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E1 0 | £420,000 | 23 |
| E1 1 | £425,000 | 19 |
| E1 2 | £475,000 | 11 |
| E1 3 | £352,500 | 15 |
| E1 4 | £422,500 | 38 |
| E1 5 | £445,000 | 19 |
| E1 6 | £535,000 | 24 |
| E1 7 | £655,000 | 8 |
| E1 8 | £510,000 | 27 |
How E1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the E area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| E5 | £603,500 | +5% |
| E8 | £575,000 | -2% |
| E17 | £570,000 | +14% |
| E11 | £555,000 | +8% |
| E4 | £550,000 | +15% |
| E20 | £550,000 | -23% |
| E9 | £528,000 | -4% |
| E10 | £526,600 | +11% |
| E7 | £522,500 | +9% |
| E2 | £500,000 | -6% |
| E1W | £497,500 | -34% |
| E12 | £477,500 | +9% |
| E18 | £475,000 | -12% |
| E14 | £450,000 | -29% |
| E1 (this report) | £449,200 | -12% |
| E15 | £440,000 | -2% |
| E3 | £437,500 | -6% |
| E6 | £420,000 | +8% |
| E13 | £415,000 | +4% |
| E16 | £371,800 | -20% |
Before you sell in E1: 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'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.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with E1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E1 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.
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.