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Poplar market report E14 8, London
The E14 8 (Poplar) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,865 sales registered with HM Land Registry in E14 8 (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: the middle 2026 sale in E14 8 (London) came in at £452,500, out of 42 registered, down 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £498,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,490 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,865 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
E14 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside E14 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where E14 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.
Today's E14 8 prices, from the sold record
Take the 42 registered 2026 sales in E14 8 and the middle price, the median, is £452,500. The mean lands at £498,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in E14 8
The last five years of sales put E14 8 at roughly £7,490 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, E14 8 sits 59% above the national market.
E14 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £452,500 | £452,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £510,000 | £522,196 | 99 |
| 2024 | £545,000 | £579,447 | 111 |
| 2023 | £561,200 | £616,622 | 98 |
| 2022 | £566,800 | £664,638 | 96 |
| 2021 | £550,000 | £696,371 | 122 |
| 2020 | £538,000 | £698,066 | 83 |
| 2019 | £537,500 | £704,534 | 90 |
| 2018 | £530,500 | £707,167 | 78 |
| 2017 | £538,500 | £734,460 | 102 |
| 2016 | £530,000 | £741,475 | 125 |
| 2015 | £515,200 | £727,978 | 168 |
| 2014 | £460,000 | £652,590 | 235 |
| 2013 | £415,000 | £597,144 | 236 |
| 2012 | £390,000 | £574,031 | 157 |
| 2011 | £385,000 | £581,202 | 157 |
| 2010 | £370,000 | £580,255 | 173 |
| 2009 | £346,000 | £556,198 | 158 |
| 2008 | £355,000 | £581,920 | 126 |
| 2007 | £375,000 | £636,104 | 377 |
| 2006 | £325,000 | £564,158 | 430 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 386 |
| 2004 | £295,000 | £535,778 | 405 |
| 2003 | £298,800 | £550,462 | 322 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 456 |
| 2001 | £245,000 | £471,000 | 448 |
| 2000 | £238,500 | £468,056 | 640 |
| 1999 | £187,500 | £373,678 | 528 |
| 1998 | £145,000 | £292,693 | 532 |
| 1997 | £140,000 | £287,112 | 549 |
| 1996 | £125,000 | £263,619 | 250 |
| 1995 | £104,000 | £226,080 | 86 |
In cash terms the typical E14 8 home went from £104,000 in 1995 to £452,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 100%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the E14 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 1999 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.3%). 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) | −11.3% | −13.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.8% | −8.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.6% | −4.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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 E14 8
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.
The register shows 42 E14 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 433 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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.
The shape of the E14 8 market
This is a thin market: 42 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.
Rents around E14 8
E14 8 falls under Tower Hamlets, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £452,500 median purchase price, a rent of £2,419 a month (£29,028 a year) works out at a 6.4% 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.
Asked and answered: E14 8 (Poplar)
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Searches that land here, answered
These are the recorded searches for the wider E14 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
To the person who searched free apartment valuation e14
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £452,500 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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 E14 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 35% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in E14 now
The live side of the market holds 324 homes at the moment, listed by 16 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E14 district, not just E14 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 E14 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: E prices by size
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 E14
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of E14, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E14 0 | £460,000 | 38 |
| E14 2 | £420,000 | 3 |
| E14 3 | £477,500 | 45 |
| E14 4 | £515,000 | 2 |
| E14 5 | £615,000 | 5 |
| E14 6 | £395,500 | 26 |
| E14 7 | £437,500 | 30 |
| E14 9 | £450,000 | 107 |
Zoom out to the full E14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how E14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in E14 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at E14 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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim E14 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about E14 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E14 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.