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Moorfields Eye Hospital market report EC1V, London
The standing EC1V (Moorfields Eye Hospital) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,802 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EC1V (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical EC1V (London) home changed hands for £710,000 in 2026 (median of 57 registered sales, down 18% on five years earlier), with the mean at £787,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,300 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,802 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district EC1V covering Finsbury (east), Moorfields Eye Hospital 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 EC1V 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.
EC1V sold prices: where the market stands
In the EC1V property market, the 2026 median sale price is £710,000, from 57 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £787,800, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in EC1V
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EC1V sales average about £11,300 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts EC1V 149% above the country at large.
EC1V's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £710,000 | £710,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £648,800 | £664,315 | 126 |
| 2024 | £965,000 | £1,025,993 | 341 |
| 2023 | £884,800 | £972,179 | 272 |
| 2022 | £780,000 | £914,639 | 145 |
| 2021 | £865,000 | £1,095,202 | 206 |
| 2020 | £898,900 | £1,166,341 | 220 |
| 2019 | £785,000 | £1,028,947 | 345 |
| 2018 | £652,500 | £869,795 | 100 |
| 2017 | £680,000 | £927,452 | 133 |
| 2016 | £790,000 | £1,105,218 | 409 |
| 2015 | £665,000 | £939,645 | 303 |
| 2014 | £600,000 | £851,205 | 192 |
| 2013 | £622,500 | £895,715 | 280 |
| 2012 | £459,600 | £676,474 | 265 |
| 2011 | £447,500 | £675,553 | 186 |
| 2010 | £430,000 | £674,351 | 145 |
| 2009 | £381,500 | £613,265 | 96 |
| 2008 | £375,000 | £614,704 | 121 |
| 2007 | £425,000 | £720,918 | 299 |
| 2006 | £325,000 | £564,158 | 229 |
| 2005 | £315,000 | £560,573 | 183 |
| 2004 | £293,000 | £532,145 | 168 |
| 2003 | £300,000 | £552,673 | 346 |
| 2002 | £285,000 | £536,225 | 271 |
| 2001 | £250,000 | £480,612 | 363 |
| 2000 | £245,500 | £481,794 | 207 |
| 1999 | £205,000 | £408,554 | 312 |
| 1998 | £180,000 | £363,343 | 237 |
| 1997 | £166,000 | £340,433 | 121 |
| 1996 | £130,000 | £274,164 | 77 |
| 1995 | £120,000 | £260,862 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical EC1V home went from £120,000 in 1995 to £710,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 172%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 39% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EC1V 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 2013 (+35.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−32.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +9.4% | +6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.9% | −8.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −3.9% | −7.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.1% | −4.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 97% of the typed total.
Median by property type, EC1V
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 | £1,185,000 (2025) | – | 235 |
| Flats | £702,500 | 56 | 6,519 |
Sales activity in EC1V
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 93 sales completed in EC1V. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 258 sales a year before the financial crisis and 188 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 EC1V market
Only 93 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EC1V a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Flats dominate what actually sells, at 92% of last year's transactions, and the headline median follows them. House buyers should lean on the type split above rather than the overall figure. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. EC1V sits 5 of 17 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What tenants pay around EC1V
EC1V falls under Islington, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,828 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £2,144 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £4,176, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Islington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £710,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,828 a month (£33,936 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on EC1V (Moorfields Eye Hospital)
How much did a house sell for in EC1V (Moorfields Eye Hospital)?
Are property prices falling in EC1V (Moorfields Eye Hospital)?
Is EC1V (Moorfields Eye Hospital) a good place to buy a house?
Where do EC1V prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 35% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in EC1V now
Everything above is what homes in EC1V sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 28 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 21% below the EC1V median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (93 in EC1V), the 28 homes listed here amount to about 4 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
21% 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 EC1V home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
EC1V: the homes on offer and the homes that go
The mix on the market in EC1V matches the mix that changes hands, within 2 points for every type.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 0% | 2% |
| Flats | 100% | 98% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (2 here).
When homes in EC1V change hands
Across the 1,090 sales completed in EC1V from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (17.5% of the total) and January the quietest (4.6%). 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 | 50 | 4.6% |
| February | 96 | 8.8% |
| March | 191 | 17.5% |
| April | 99 | 9.1% |
| May | 93 | 8.5% |
| June | 111 | 10.2% |
| July | 72 | 6.6% |
| August | 82 | 7.5% |
| September | 89 | 8.2% |
| October | 76 | 7.0% |
| November | 64 | 5.9% |
| December | 67 | 6.1% |
Moving up a bedroom in EC: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat | £550,000 | £822,750 (+50%) | £1,055,000 (+28%) | — | £1,510,000 |
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
EC1V ranks 11 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.
Winners and losers across the EC area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside EC1V, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EC1V 0 | £788,000 | 5 |
| EC1V 1 | £562,500 | 18 |
| EC1V 2 | £717,500 | 4 |
| EC1V 3 | £685,000 | 5 |
| EC1V 4 | £850,000 | 10 |
| EC1V 7 | £847,500 | 8 |
| EC1V 8 | £750,000 | 5 |
| EC1V 9 | £404,000 | 2 |
How EC1V 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% |
| EC4Y | £846,500 | -3% |
| EC2Y | £784,100 | -3% |
| EC1V (this report) | £710,000 | -18% |
| EC4V | £692,500 | -1% |
| EC3R | £680,000 | -89% |
| EC4A | £665,000 | -19% |
| EC1M | £660,000 | -17% |
| EC1Y | £630,000 | -19% |
| EC4R | £625,000 | -5% |
| EC1N | £615,000 | +11% |
| EC1R | £600,000 | -25% |
| EC1A | £563,500 | -26% |
| EC4M | £550,000 | -8% |
| EC2A | £496,500 | -48% |
| EC3N | £490,000 | -16% |
Before you sell in EC1V: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EC1V, open the average prices map and zoom from the EC1V shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EC1V sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EC1V already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EC1V 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.