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St Bartholomew's Hospital market report EC1A, London
The standing EC1A (St Bartholomew's Hospital) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,417 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EC1A (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for EC1A (London) is £541,200, from 8 registered sales, down 29% on five years earlier; the mean is £569,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,417 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
EC1A is the postcode district covering St Bartholomew's Hospital 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 EC1A 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 EC1A sells for
The EC1A median stands at £541,200 for 2026, built from 8 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £569,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in EC1A
By floor space, homes in EC1A have sold for about £12,980 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts EC1A 90% above the country at large.
A typical EC1A home, priced year by year (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 | £541,200 | £541,200 | 8 |
| 2025 | £625,000 | £639,946 | 21 |
| 2024 | £677,100 | £719,896 | 24 |
| 2023 | £849,000 | £932,844 | 25 |
| 2022 | £1,337,500 | £1,568,371 | 25 |
| 2021 | £762,500 | £965,423 | 37 |
| 2020 | £1,447,600 | £1,878,291 | 56 |
| 2019 | £833,500 | £1,092,519 | 18 |
| 2018 | £1,265,000 | £1,686,269 | 109 |
| 2017 | £880,000 | £1,200,232 | 37 |
| 2016 | £900,000 | £1,259,109 | 24 |
| 2015 | £590,600 | £834,518 | 21 |
| 2014 | £580,000 | £822,831 | 25 |
| 2013 | £564,000 | £811,540 | 27 |
| 2012 | £494,000 | £727,106 | 28 |
| 2011 | £455,000 | £686,875 | 31 |
| 2010 | £420,000 | £658,668 | 31 |
| 2009 | £330,500 | £531,282 | 16 |
| 2008 | £340,000 | £557,332 | 18 |
| 2007 | £370,000 | £627,623 | 38 |
| 2006 | £320,000 | £555,479 | 53 |
| 2005 | £315,000 | £560,573 | 54 |
| 2004 | £295,000 | £535,778 | 76 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 106 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 83 |
| 2001 | £259,600 | £499,068 | 82 |
| 2000 | £184,500 | £362,081 | 64 |
| 1999 | £192,800 | £384,240 | 72 |
| 1998 | £150,000 | £302,786 | 59 |
| 1997 | £193,000 | £395,804 | 12 |
| 1996 | £161,900 | £341,440 | 124 |
| 1995 | £136,000 | £295,643 | 13 |
In cash terms the typical EC1A home went from £136,000 in 1995 to £541,200 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 83%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 71% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EC1A 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 2022 (+75.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−47.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EC1A has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.4% | −15.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −5.0% | −8.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
The register shows 21 EC1A 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 70 sales a year before the financial crisis and 21 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 shape of the EC1A market
Only 21 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EC1A a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, EC1A ranks 15 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around EC1A
For renting purposes EC1A sits in Westminster. The ONS average private rent there is £3,163 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,517 a month here against £5,378 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £541,200 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 7.0%: 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.
EC1A (St Bartholomew's Hospital): the questions that come up
Is EC1A (St Bartholomew's Hospital) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EC1A (St Bartholomew's Hospital)?
Are property prices falling in EC1A (St Bartholomew's Hospital)?
Where do EC1A prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in EC1A now
Everything above is what homes in EC1A sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 13 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the EC1A median sold price.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 EC1A 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 EC
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EC area. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat | £560,050 | £825,000 (+47%) | £1,310,000 (+59%) | £1,882,500 (+44%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
EC1A ranks 15 of 17 in the EC 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.
EC 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 EC1A, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EC1A 4 | £580,000 | 7 |
| EC1A 7 | £556,800 | 6 |
| EC1A 9 | £487,500 | 2 |
How EC1A compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EC area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| EC2M | £2,084,000 | +75% |
| EC3A | £1,500,000 | +19% |
| EC4V | £890,000 | +27% |
| EC4Y | £846,500 | -3% |
| EC2Y | £784,100 | -3% |
| EC1M | £730,000 | -9% |
| EC1V | £695,000 | -20% |
| EC3R | £680,000 | -89% |
| EC1Y | £670,000 | -14% |
| EC4A | £665,000 | -19% |
| EC4R | £625,000 | -5% |
| EC1N | £615,000 | +11% |
| EC1R | £590,000 | -26% |
| EC4M | £550,000 | -8% |
| EC1A (this report) | £541,200 | -29% |
| EC3N | £490,000 | -16% |
| EC2A | £465,000 | -51% |
Selling a home in EC1A? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EC1A'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 EC1A.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EC1A already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EC1A 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.
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.