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Poplar market report E14, London
The E14 (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: 53,872 sales registered with HM Land Registry in E14 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in E14 (London) came in at £450,000, out of 298 registered, down 29% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £493,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,220 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 53,872 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
E14 is a postcode district covering Poplar, Isle of Dogs, Limehouse in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where E14 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 E14
Across 298 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) E14 home went for £450,000. The mean is £493,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in E14
Per square metre, E14 homes have averaged around £8,220 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, E14 sits 58% above the national market.
The price of a typical E14 home, 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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 298 |
| 2025 | £495,000 | £506,837 | 1,005 |
| 2024 | £556,800 | £591,993 | 1,219 |
| 2023 | £540,000 | £593,328 | 1,150 |
| 2022 | £519,400 | £609,056 | 1,798 |
| 2021 | £632,200 | £800,447 | 2,458 |
| 2020 | £557,000 | £722,719 | 1,824 |
| 2019 | £490,000 | £642,273 | 1,326 |
| 2018 | £475,000 | £633,184 | 1,428 |
| 2017 | £470,000 | £641,033 | 1,555 |
| 2016 | £460,000 | £643,545 | 2,390 |
| 2015 | £410,000 | £579,330 | 1,739 |
| 2014 | £378,500 | £536,968 | 1,779 |
| 2013 | £340,200 | £489,514 | 1,724 |
| 2012 | £330,000 | £485,719 | 1,320 |
| 2011 | £325,000 | £490,625 | 1,492 |
| 2010 | £320,900 | £503,254 | 2,035 |
| 2009 | £316,000 | £507,973 | 1,542 |
| 2008 | £308,200 | £505,205 | 1,060 |
| 2007 | £320,000 | £542,809 | 2,251 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 2,080 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 2,089 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 2,745 |
| 2003 | £247,500 | £455,955 | 1,599 |
| 2002 | £228,000 | £428,980 | 1,977 |
| 2001 | £219,000 | £421,016 | 2,206 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 2,294 |
| 1999 | £158,000 | £314,886 | 2,444 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 1,878 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 1,570 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 921 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 676 |
In cash terms the typical E14 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 196%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 44% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E14 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 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−17.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 92% of the typed total. In 2004, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £319,800 against £250,000 for a flat, a 28% premium.
Median by property type, E14
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 | £319,800 (2004) | – | 36 |
| Semi-detached | £891,500 (2024) | – | 347 |
| Terraced | £740,000 | 24 | 4,154 |
| Flats | £422,500 | 270 | 49,274 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.2% | −3.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
E14 recorded 663 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 2,155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 1,094 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.
The shape of the E14 market
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.
The rental side of E14
For renting purposes E14 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 £450,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,419 a month (£29,028 a year) works out at a 6.5% 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.
E14 (Poplar): the questions that come up
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Searches that land here, answered
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reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £450,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
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 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% 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
Everything above is what homes in E14 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 324 homes currently on the market from 16 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% above the E14 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
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. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
E14 ranks 19 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.
Five-year change in the median, E area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside E14, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 8 | £452,500 | 42 |
| E14 9 | £450,000 | 107 |
How E14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the E area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| E20 | £635,000 | -11% |
| E5 | £585,000 | +2% |
| E8 | £575,000 | -2% |
| E17 | £563,500 | +13% |
| E11 | £548,500 | +7% |
| E4 | £545,000 | +14% |
| E9 | £526,500 | -4% |
| E10 | £525,000 | +11% |
| E7 | £500,000 | +4% |
| E2 | £499,000 | -6% |
| E1W | £495,000 | -34% |
| E18 | £490,000 | -9% |
| E12 | £480,000 | +9% |
| E14 (this report) | £450,000 | -29% |
| E1 | £449,200 | -12% |
| E3 | £446,500 | -4% |
| E15 | £440,000 | -2% |
| E6 | £425,000 | +9% |
| E13 | £415,000 | +4% |
| E16 | £375,000 | -19% |
Selling a home in E14? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in E14, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from E14's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded E14 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to E14. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual E14 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.