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Bow market report E3 5, London
The standing E3 5 (Bow) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,125 registered sales in E3 5 (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical E3 5 (London) home changed hands for £511,700 in 2026 (median of 52 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £628,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,260 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,125 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
E3 5 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 5 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.
The going rate for a home in E3 5
52 sales were registered in E3 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £511,700. The mean works out at £628,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
E3 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of E3 5 home has cost about £8,260 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 5 runs 80% above it.
E3 5's median sold price, 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 | £511,700 | £511,700 | 52 |
| 2025 | £600,000 | £614,348 | 117 |
| 2024 | £565,000 | £600,711 | 116 |
| 2023 | £535,000 | £587,834 | 112 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 131 |
| 2021 | £533,500 | £675,480 | 178 |
| 2020 | £520,000 | £674,711 | 102 |
| 2019 | £480,000 | £629,165 | 100 |
| 2018 | £475,000 | £633,184 | 110 |
| 2017 | £516,000 | £703,772 | 118 |
| 2016 | £530,000 | £741,475 | 154 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 144 |
| 2014 | £360,000 | £510,723 | 301 |
| 2013 | £377,500 | £543,185 | 141 |
| 2012 | £334,500 | £492,342 | 160 |
| 2011 | £270,000 | £407,596 | 132 |
| 2010 | £349,700 | £548,420 | 124 |
| 2009 | £279,000 | £448,495 | 90 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 86 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 189 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 227 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 232 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 246 |
| 2003 | £187,900 | £346,157 | 212 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 217 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 238 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 231 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 193 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 170 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 201 |
| 1996 | £87,000 | £183,479 | 156 |
| 1995 | £71,500 | £155,430 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical E3 5 home went from £71,500 in 1995 to £511,700 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 229%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the E3 5 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 (+60.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.8%). 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) | −14.7% | −16.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.6% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
E3 5 recorded 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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.
Reading the E3 5 market
This is a thin market: 52 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. Against the E3 district median, E3 5 sits 15% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around E3 5
For renting purposes E3 5 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.
£2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, which against the £511,700 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
Asked and answered: E3 5 (Bow)
Are property prices falling in E3 5 (Bow)?
Is E3 5 (Bow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E3 5 (Bow)?
What happens to E3 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 E3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in E
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the E area. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
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.
Other sectors in E3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of E3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E3 2 | £450,000 | 83 |
| E3 3 | £355,000 | 37 |
| E3 4 | £455,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full E3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how E3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in E3 5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at E3 5'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim E3 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to E3 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual E3 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.