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Bow market report E3 2, London
The E3 2 (Bow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 8,443 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in E3 2 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in E3 2 (London) came in at £450,000, out of 83 registered, down 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £491,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,160 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,443 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like E3 2 is a single group of streets within E3 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where E3 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.
What a home in E3 2 sells for
Across 83 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) E3 2 home went for £450,000. The mean is £491,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in E3 2
A square metre of E3 2 home has cost about £7,160 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, E3 2 runs 58% above it.
E3 2'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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 83 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 213 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 238 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 184 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 235 |
| 2021 | £487,500 | £617,238 | 485 |
| 2020 | £485,600 | £630,076 | 220 |
| 2019 | £477,800 | £626,281 | 276 |
| 2018 | £460,000 | £613,189 | 373 |
| 2017 | £424,000 | £578,293 | 152 |
| 2016 | £444,200 | £621,440 | 272 |
| 2015 | £400,000 | £565,200 | 315 |
| 2014 | £340,000 | £482,349 | 260 |
| 2013 | £305,000 | £438,865 | 294 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 195 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 216 |
| 2010 | £237,500 | £372,461 | 202 |
| 2009 | £248,700 | £399,787 | 180 |
| 2008 | £295,000 | £483,567 | 137 |
| 2007 | £285,000 | £483,439 | 493 |
| 2006 | £242,000 | £420,081 | 477 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 459 |
| 2004 | £206,800 | £375,589 | 304 |
| 2003 | £189,000 | £348,184 | 244 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 287 |
| 2001 | £147,500 | £283,561 | 263 |
| 2000 | £128,500 | £252,181 | 238 |
| 1999 | £103,800 | £206,868 | 274 |
| 1998 | £87,200 | £176,019 | 218 |
| 1997 | £67,700 | £138,839 | 214 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 145 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 297 |
In cash terms the typical E3 2 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 165%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E3 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 1998 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−17.9%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.1% | −3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
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
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.
The register shows 83 E3 2 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 346 sales a year before the financial crisis and 191 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of E3 2
E3 2 falls under Tower Hamlets, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,419 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,964 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,335 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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.
E3 2 (Bow): the questions that come up
Is E3 2 (Bow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E3 2 (Bow)?
Are property prices falling in E3 2 (Bow)?
Will E3 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in E3 today
Turning to what is actually available: 113 homes on the market right now, from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E3 district, not just E3 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 E3 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. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the E area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
E area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in E3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of E3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E3 3 | £355,000 | 37 |
| E3 4 | £455,000 | 43 |
| E3 5 | £511,700 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full E3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how E3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in E3 2? 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 E3 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from E3 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded E3 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 E3 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with E3 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E3 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.
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.