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Finsbury market report EC1R, London
The EC1R (Finsbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,264 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in EC1R (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: a typical EC1R (London) home changed hands for £590,000 in 2026 (median of 17 registered sales, down 26% on five years earlier), with the mean at £669,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,600 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,264 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district EC1R covering Finsbury, Finsbury Estate (west) sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where EC1R 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 buyers actually paid in EC1R
In the EC1R property market, the 2026 median sale price is £590,000, from 17 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £669,400, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in EC1R
By floor space, homes in EC1R have sold for about £11,600 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EC1R runs 107% above it.
The price of a typical EC1R home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £590,000 | £590,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £740,000 | £757,696 | 44 |
| 2024 | £880,200 | £935,833 | 54 |
| 2023 | £968,800 | £1,064,475 | 32 |
| 2022 | £825,000 | £967,407 | 56 |
| 2021 | £800,000 | £1,012,903 | 36 |
| 2020 | £854,000 | £1,108,083 | 29 |
| 2019 | £705,000 | £924,086 | 19 |
| 2018 | £825,000 | £1,099,741 | 35 |
| 2017 | £961,200 | £1,310,980 | 34 |
| 2016 | £780,000 | £1,091,228 | 47 |
| 2015 | £851,200 | £1,202,746 | 64 |
| 2014 | £760,000 | £1,078,193 | 77 |
| 2013 | £695,000 | £1,000,036 | 70 |
| 2012 | £622,500 | £916,242 | 62 |
| 2011 | £455,000 | £686,875 | 66 |
| 2010 | £500,000 | £784,129 | 79 |
| 2009 | £490,000 | £787,679 | 94 |
| 2008 | £390,000 | £639,292 | 56 |
| 2007 | £485,000 | £822,695 | 82 |
| 2006 | £350,200 | £607,902 | 88 |
| 2005 | £357,500 | £636,206 | 88 |
| 2004 | £330,000 | £599,344 | 73 |
| 2003 | £284,000 | £523,197 | 72 |
| 2002 | £300,000 | £564,447 | 115 |
| 2001 | £295,000 | £567,122 | 158 |
| 2000 | £250,000 | £490,625 | 97 |
| 1999 | £210,000 | £418,519 | 125 |
| 1998 | £195,400 | £394,429 | 114 |
| 1997 | £187,500 | £384,525 | 174 |
| 1996 | £134,500 | £283,654 | 48 |
| 1995 | £169,500 | £368,467 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical EC1R home went from £169,500 in 1995 to £590,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 60%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 55% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EC1R 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 1997 (+39.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−20.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EC1R has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.3% | −22.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.9% | −10.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.8% | −6.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 95% of the typed total.
Median by property type, EC1R
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £1,500,000 (2024) | – | 100 |
| Flats | £590,000 | 17 | 2,101 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 38 EC1R 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 97 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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.
How EC1R trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EC1R 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.
What tenants pay around EC1R
For renting purposes EC1R sits in Islington. The ONS average private rent there is £2,828 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,144 a month here against £4,176 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Islington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £590,000 median sold price, £2,828 a month is £33,936 a year, a gross yield of 5.8%: 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.
What people ask about EC1R (Finsbury)
How much did a house sell for in EC1R (Finsbury)?
Are property prices falling in EC1R (Finsbury)?
Is EC1R (Finsbury) a good place to buy a house?
Where do EC1R prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 26% over five years in cash but down 42% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in EC1R now
Everything above is what homes in EC1R sold for. The live side of the market holds 15 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 53% above the EC1R median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 13% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 EC1R 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.
What another bedroom costs in EC
Real sold prices by size across the EC area, straight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat | £560,050 | £825,000 (+47%) | £1,310,000 (+59%) | £1,882,500 (+44%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
EC1R ranks 14 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.
Five-year change in the median, EC area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside EC1R, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EC1R 0 | £1,000,000 | 2 |
| EC1R 1 | £555,000 | 6 |
| EC1R 3 | £830,000 | 1 |
| EC1R 4 | £765,000 | 3 |
| EC1R 5 | £340,000 | 5 |
How EC1R 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 (this report) | £590,000 | -26% |
| EC4M | £550,000 | -8% |
| EC1A | £541,200 | -29% |
| EC3N | £490,000 | -16% |
| EC2A | £465,000 | -51% |
Before you sell in EC1R: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EC1R, open the average prices map and zoom from the EC1R shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EC1R sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EC1R.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual EC1R 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.
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.