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Bow market report E3, London
The E3 (Bow) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 23,638 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in E3 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in E3 (London) sold for £437,500 in 2026, the median of 259 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £503,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,170 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 23,638 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
E3 is a postcode district covering Bow, Bow Common, Bromley-by-Bow in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where E3 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.
E3 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for E3 is £437,500, taken from 259 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £503,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in E3
Per square metre, E3 homes have averaged around £7,170 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, E3 runs 54% above it.
The price of a typical E3 home, 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 | £437,500 | £437,500 | 259 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 588 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 637 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 518 |
| 2022 | £444,500 | £521,227 | 830 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 1,006 |
| 2020 | £474,000 | £615,025 | 593 |
| 2019 | £452,500 | £593,119 | 705 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 798 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 757 |
| 2016 | £430,000 | £601,574 | 939 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 865 |
| 2014 | £334,000 | £473,837 | 1,017 |
| 2013 | £278,000 | £400,014 | 997 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 888 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 719 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 579 |
| 2009 | £242,000 | £389,017 | 511 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 407 |
| 2007 | £267,800 | £454,263 | 1,008 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 1,201 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 992 |
| 2004 | £196,400 | £356,701 | 854 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 735 |
| 2002 | £162,500 | £305,742 | 779 |
| 2001 | £141,000 | £271,065 | 746 |
| 2000 | £122,000 | £239,425 | 669 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 767 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 593 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 593 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 488 |
| 1995 | £65,400 | £142,170 | 600 |
In cash terms the typical E3 home went from £65,400 in 1995 to £437,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 208%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the E3 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What E3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.8% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −1.3% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 85% of the typed total.
Median by property type, E3
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £650,000 (2013) | – | 140 |
| Terraced | £883,400 | 39 | 3,508 |
| Flats | £418,800 | 220 | 19,915 |
How many homes change hands in E3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
E3 recorded 454 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 873 sales a year before the financial crisis and 566 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 tenants pay around E3
For renting purposes E3 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 £437,500 median sold price, £2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, a gross yield of 6.6%: 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.
Reading the E3 market
The stock is flat-led: flats and maisonettes were 83% of last year's sales, so the headline median tracks the flat market more than the house market. In its area's price order E3 comes 17 of 20, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: E3 (Bow)
Is E3 (Bow) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E3 (Bow)?
Are property prices falling in E3 (Bow)?
What happens to E3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in E3 now
Everything above is what homes in E3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 35 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the E3 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (454 in E3), the 35 homes listed here amount to about 4 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
23% 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.
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 →
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.
Listed against sold: the E3 mix
Terraced homes are 12% of what sold in E3 over 2024 and 2025 but only 3% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 3% | 12% |
| Flats | 97% | 88% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (4 of them here).
The E3 sales calendar
Across the 3,579 sales completed in E3 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (13.9% of the total) and April the quietest (6.1%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 231 | 6.5% |
| February | 250 | 7.0% |
| March | 430 | 12.0% |
| April | 219 | 6.1% |
| May | 243 | 6.8% |
| June | 496 | 13.9% |
| July | 262 | 7.3% |
| August | 314 | 8.8% |
| September | 340 | 9.5% |
| October | 252 | 7.0% |
| November | 285 | 8.0% |
| December | 257 | 7.2% |
The price of an extra bedroom in E
What homes of each size actually sold for across the E area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | — | £620,000 | £890,000 (+44%) | £1,169,324 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £435,000 | £525,000 (+21%) | £624,500 (+19%) | £822,500 (+32%) | £1,080,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £440,000 | £520,000 (+18%) | £595,000 (+14%) | £725,000 (+22%) | £775,000 (+7%) |
| Flat | £360,000 | £450,000 (+25%) | £555,000 (+23%) | £680,000 (+23%) | £900,000 (+32%) |
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
E3 ranks 14 of 20 in the E area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
E area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside E3, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How E3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the E area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| E5 | £603,500 | +5% |
| E8 | £575,000 | -2% |
| E17 | £570,000 | +14% |
| E11 | £555,000 | +8% |
| E4 | £550,000 | +15% |
| E20 | £550,000 | -23% |
| E9 | £528,000 | -4% |
| E10 | £526,600 | +11% |
| E7 | £522,500 | +9% |
| E2 | £500,000 | -6% |
| E1W | £497,500 | -34% |
| E12 | £477,500 | +9% |
| E18 | £475,000 | -12% |
| E14 | £450,000 | -29% |
| E1 | £449,200 | -12% |
| E15 | £440,000 | -2% |
| E3 (this report) | £437,500 | -6% |
| E6 | £420,000 | +8% |
| E13 | £415,000 | +4% |
| E16 | £371,800 | -20% |
Before you sell in E3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in E3, open the average prices map and zoom from the E3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded E3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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See every individual E3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.