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Wapping market report E1W 3, London
The standing E1W 3 (Wapping) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,009 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in E1W 3 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical E1W 3 (London) home changed hands for £480,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £513,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,009 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
E1W 3 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 3 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 E1W 3 sells for
Take the 29 registered 2026 sales in E1W 3 and the middle price, the median, is £480,000. The mean lands at £513,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in E1W 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of E1W 3 sales average about £7,900 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, E1W 3 sits 68% above the national market.
A typical E1W 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £480,000 | £480,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £525,000 | £537,554 | 65 |
| 2024 | £537,500 | £571,473 | 54 |
| 2023 | £590,000 | £648,266 | 62 |
| 2022 | £555,000 | £650,801 | 66 |
| 2021 | £521,200 | £659,906 | 86 |
| 2020 | £525,000 | £681,198 | 50 |
| 2019 | £500,000 | £655,380 | 85 |
| 2018 | £530,000 | £706,500 | 56 |
| 2017 | £533,000 | £726,958 | 69 |
| 2016 | £619,000 | £865,987 | 116 |
| 2015 | £515,000 | £727,695 | 113 |
| 2014 | £480,000 | £680,964 | 256 |
| 2013 | £410,000 | £589,949 | 106 |
| 2012 | £330,000 | £485,719 | 171 |
| 2011 | £345,000 | £520,817 | 80 |
| 2010 | £350,300 | £549,361 | 80 |
| 2009 | £350,000 | £562,628 | 65 |
| 2008 | £320,000 | £524,548 | 54 |
| 2007 | £339,100 | £575,208 | 113 |
| 2006 | £285,000 | £494,724 | 189 |
| 2005 | £264,500 | £470,703 | 144 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 170 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 143 |
| 2002 | £243,000 | £457,202 | 203 |
| 2001 | £220,000 | £422,939 | 239 |
| 2000 | £190,000 | £372,875 | 185 |
| 1999 | £185,000 | £368,695 | 235 |
| 1998 | £145,000 | £292,693 | 271 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 209 |
| 1996 | £110,200 | £232,407 | 178 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical E1W 3 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £480,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 45% 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 E1W 3 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−13.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.6% | −10.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.5% | −5.7% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 29 E1W 3 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 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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 E1W 3
E1W 3 falls under Tower Hamlets, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,419 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, which against the £480,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How E1W 3 trades
This is a thin market: 29 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.
E1W 3 (Wapping): the questions that come up
Is E1W 3 (Wapping) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E1W 3 (Wapping)?
Are property prices falling in E1W 3 (Wapping)?
What happens to E1W 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
On the market in E1W today
Turning to what is actually available: 17 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E1W district, not just E1W 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: E prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the E area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £528,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full E1W district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how E1W compares with its neighbours.
Selling in E1W 3? 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 E1W 3'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 E1W 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to E1W 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E1W 3 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.