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Forest Gate market report E7, London
The house prices in E7 (Forest Gate): the full public record, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 14,385 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in E7 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in E7 (London) came in at £500,000, out of 87 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £553,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 14,385 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
E7 is the postcode district covering Forest Gate in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where E7 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 E7
In the E7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £500,000, from 87 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £553,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in E7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in E7 costs about £6,110 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so E7 trades 75% above the country as a whole.
E7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 87 |
| 2025 | £533,000 | £545,746 | 239 |
| 2024 | £501,500 | £533,198 | 264 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 229 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 278 |
| 2021 | £478,800 | £606,223 | 304 |
| 2020 | £455,000 | £590,372 | 202 |
| 2019 | £469,500 | £615,402 | 190 |
| 2018 | £427,500 | £569,866 | 214 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 228 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 322 |
| 2015 | £330,000 | £466,290 | 382 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 386 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 330 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 208 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 237 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 252 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 203 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 344 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 612 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 603 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 598 |
| 2004 | £183,000 | £332,364 | 745 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 754 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 825 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 887 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 855 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 731 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 816 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 728 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 705 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 627 |
In cash terms the typical E7 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 374%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E7 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 2000 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 66% of the typed total. In 2013, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £325,000 against £165,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, E7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £325,000 (2013) | – | 60 |
| Semi-detached | £820,000 (2025) | – | 672 |
| Terraced | £587,500 | 60 | 9,515 |
| Flats | £298,000 | 24 | 4,083 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
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
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 199 E7 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 735 sales a year before the financial crisis and 219 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around E7
E7 falls under Newham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,923 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,626 a month here against £2,664 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Newham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,923 a month is £23,076 a year, which against the £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
What people ask about E7 (Forest Gate)
Is E7 (Forest Gate) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E7 (Forest Gate)?
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What happens to E7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 E7 today
Everything above is what homes in E7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 110 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the E7 median sold price.
24% 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 E7 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
E7 ranks 7 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside E7, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E7 0 | £595,000 | 31 |
| E7 8 | £475,000 | 23 |
| E7 9 | £485,000 | 33 |
How E7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the E area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| E20 | £635,000 | -11% |
| E5 | £585,000 | +2% |
| E8 | £575,000 | -2% |
| E17 | £563,500 | +13% |
| E11 | £548,500 | +7% |
| E4 | £545,000 | +14% |
| E9 | £526,500 | -4% |
| E10 | £525,000 | +11% |
| E7 (this report) | £500,000 | +4% |
| E2 | £499,000 | -6% |
| E1W | £495,000 | -34% |
| E18 | £490,000 | -9% |
| E12 | £480,000 | +9% |
| E14 | £450,000 | -29% |
| E1 | £449,200 | -12% |
| E3 | £446,500 | -4% |
| E15 | £440,000 | -2% |
| E6 | £425,000 | +9% |
| E13 | £415,000 | +4% |
| E16 | £375,000 | -19% |
Selling in E7? 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 E7'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.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual E7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.