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Bow market report E3 4, London
The E3 4 (Bow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,267 HM Land Registry entries for E3 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical E3 4 (London) home changed hands for £455,000 in 2026 (median of 43 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £484,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,780 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,267 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
E3 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside E3 (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 E3 4 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 4 sells for
The E3 4 median stands at £455,000 for 2026, built from 43 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £484,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in E3 4
A square metre of E3 4 home has cost about £6,780 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so E3 4 trades 60% above the country as a whole.
E3 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £455,000 | £455,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 128 |
| 2024 | £439,000 | £466,747 | 130 |
| 2023 | £432,500 | £475,212 | 97 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 149 |
| 2021 | £436,500 | £552,665 | 156 |
| 2020 | £442,000 | £573,504 | 90 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 194 |
| 2018 | £465,000 | £619,854 | 188 |
| 2017 | £475,000 | £647,852 | 294 |
| 2016 | £430,000 | £601,574 | 269 |
| 2015 | £353,800 | £499,919 | 130 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 184 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 273 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 197 |
| 2011 | £237,600 | £358,685 | 203 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 105 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 139 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 91 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 224 |
| 2006 | £199,500 | £346,307 | 212 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 134 |
| 2004 | £184,000 | £334,180 | 152 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 171 |
| 2002 | £148,000 | £278,461 | 192 |
| 2001 | £137,000 | £263,376 | 177 |
| 2000 | £112,500 | £220,781 | 147 |
| 1999 | £111,000 | £221,217 | 238 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 151 |
| 1997 | £61,800 | £126,739 | 128 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 145 |
| 1995 | £60,200 | £130,866 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical E3 4 home went from £60,200 in 1995 to £455,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 248%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the E3 4 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 (+58.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What E3 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in E3 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
E3 4 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 176 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
What homes rent for around E3 4
The local authority for E3 4 is Tower Hamlets, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £455,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.4%. 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.
Reading the E3 4 market
This is a thin market: 43 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.
What people ask about E3 4 (Bow)
How much did a house sell for in E3 4 (Bow)?
Are property prices falling in E3 4 (Bow)?
Is E3 4 (Bow) a good place to buy a house?
Where do E3 4 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
E3's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 113 homes currently on the market from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole E3 district, not just E3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in E: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the E area, 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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 E3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are E3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E3 2 | £450,000 | 83 |
| E3 3 | £355,000 | 37 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in E3 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the E3 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded E3 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working E3 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim E3 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with E3 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every E3 4 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.