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Wapping market report E1W 2, London
The E1W 2 (Wapping) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,383 HM Land Registry entries for E1W 2 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical E1W 2 (London) home changed hands for £528,000 in 2026 (median of 28 registered sales, down 37% on five years earlier), with the mean at £711,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,340 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,383 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
E1W 2 is one sector of E1W (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where E1W 2 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 E1W 2 prices, from the sold record
Take the 28 registered 2026 sales in E1W 2 and the middle price, the median, is £528,000. The mean lands at £711,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in E1W 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in E1W 2 costs about £12,340 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, E1W 2 runs 85% above it.
The price of a typical E1W 2 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £528,000 | £528,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £835,000 | £854,967 | 217 |
| 2024 | £784,100 | £833,659 | 133 |
| 2023 | £647,500 | £711,444 | 56 |
| 2022 | £1,168,000 | £1,369,613 | 286 |
| 2021 | £842,000 | £1,066,081 | 156 |
| 2020 | £589,500 | £764,888 | 152 |
| 2019 | £568,200 | £744,774 | 102 |
| 2018 | £873,000 | £1,163,725 | 105 |
| 2017 | £820,000 | £1,118,398 | 113 |
| 2016 | £620,000 | £867,386 | 43 |
| 2015 | £580,000 | £819,540 | 75 |
| 2014 | £477,500 | £677,417 | 114 |
| 2013 | £450,000 | £647,505 | 86 |
| 2012 | £435,000 | £640,266 | 88 |
| 2011 | £350,000 | £528,365 | 82 |
| 2010 | £377,500 | £592,017 | 88 |
| 2009 | £395,000 | £634,966 | 60 |
| 2008 | £400,000 | £655,684 | 55 |
| 2007 | £350,500 | £594,546 | 176 |
| 2006 | £309,000 | £536,385 | 153 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 169 |
| 2004 | £260,000 | £472,211 | 225 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 130 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 167 |
| 2001 | £207,500 | £398,908 | 207 |
| 2000 | £180,000 | £353,250 | 192 |
| 1999 | £165,500 | £329,833 | 216 |
| 1998 | £138,000 | £278,563 | 183 |
| 1997 | £126,000 | £258,401 | 235 |
| 1996 | £107,000 | £225,658 | 171 |
| 1995 | £118,200 | £256,949 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical E1W 2 home went from £118,200 in 1995 to £528,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 105%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 61% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E1W 2 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 2021 (+42.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−44.6%). 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) | −36.8% | −38.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.9% | −13.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.6% | −4.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
E1W 2 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 144 sales a year recently, against 177 a year before 2008. 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.
How E1W 2 trades
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes E1W 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around E1W 2
For renting purposes E1W 2 sits in Tower Hamlets. The ONS average private rent there is £2,419 a month (May 2026). 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 £528,000 median sold price, £2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: E1W 2 (Wapping)
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: 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 £528,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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Will E1W 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 37% over five years in cash but down 50% 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 E1W now
The live side of the market holds 17 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E1W district, not just E1W 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 E1W 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. 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 | — | £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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, E area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in E1W
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are E1W's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E1W 1 | £535,000 | 12 |
| E1W 3 | £480,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full E1W district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how E1W compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in E1W 2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in E1W 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from E1W 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded E1W 2 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 E1W 2.
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Two maps carry on from here: every E1W 2 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.