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EC2M local market report London

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 226 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EC2M (London) since 1998, 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 data to February 2024. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

EC2M is the postcode district covering Broadgate, Liverpool Street 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 EC2M sits

Click the map to open EC2M on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.

EC2NEC2AEC3AEC2REC3VEC2YEC4NEC1YEC2VEC4MEC1AEC1MEC4AEC2M
£3,377,500median sold price, 2024
+176%five-year change (cash)
57sales in the last 12 months
1.1%gross rental yield (est.)

What a home in EC2M sells for

The 2024 median in EC2M is £3,377,500, from 12 registered sales; the mean, £9,069,200, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so EC2M trades 1133% above the country as a whole.

The price of a typical EC2M home, 1998 to 2024

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.

Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
£1.25M£2.5M£3.8M£5M201520202024 1998: £162,500 at the time · £320,357 in today's money · 25 sales1999: £222,500 at the time · £433,075 in today's money · 6 sales2001: £255,000 at the time · £478,776 in today's money · 14 sales2011: £1,325,000 at the time · £1,953,526 in today's money · 10 sales2013: £2,300,000 at the time · £3,232,179 in today's money · 5 sales2014: £1,087,500 at the time · £1,506,777 in today's money · 16 sales2015: £525,000 at the time · £724,500 in today's money · 13 sales2016: £425,000 at the time · £580,693 in today's money · 5 sales2017: £1,000,000 at the time · £1,332,046 in today's money · 11 sales2018: £1,249,000 at the time · £1,626,057 in today's money · 15 sales2019: £1,224,100 at the time · £1,567,030 in today's money · 34 sales2020: £504,000 at the time · £638,678 in today's money · 11 sales2022: £4,100,000 at the time · £4,695,436 in today's money · 9 sales2023: £1,045,000 at the time · £1,121,384 in today's money · 6 sales2024: £3,377,500 at the time · £3,507,111 in today's money · 12 sales
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YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2024£3,377,500£3,507,11112
2023£1,045,000£1,121,3846
2022£4,100,000£4,695,4369
2020£504,000£638,67811
2019£1,224,100£1,567,03034
2018£1,249,000£1,626,05715
2017£1,000,000£1,332,04611
2016£425,000£580,6935
2015£525,000£724,50013
2014£1,087,500£1,506,77716
2013£2,300,000£3,232,1795
2011£1,325,000£1,953,52610
2001£255,000£478,77614
1999£222,500£433,0756
1998£162,500£320,35725

In cash terms the typical EC2M home went from £162,500 in 1998 to £3,377,500 in 2024, roughly 21 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 954%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

Year-on-year change in the EC2M median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+250% -250% 0% 1999 · +36.9% on the year before2014 · −52.7% on the year before2015 · −51.7% on the year before2016 · −19.0% on the year before2017 · +135.3% on the year before2018 · +24.9% on the year before2019 · −2.0% on the year before2020 · −58.8% on the year before2023 · −74.5% on the year before2024 · +223.2% on the year before201520202024

The strongest year on record here is 2024 (+223.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−74.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2023)+223.2%+212.7%
5 years (since 2019)+22.5%+17.5%
10 years (since 2014)+12.0%+8.8%
23 years (since 2001)+11.9%+9.0%

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.

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.

2550 1998: 25 sales1999: 6 sales2001: 14 sales2011: 10 sales2013: 5 sales2014: 16 sales2015: 13 sales2016: 5 sales2017: 11 sales2018: 15 sales2019: 34 sales2020: 11 sales2022: 9 sales2023: 6 sales2024: 12 sales201520202024

EC2M recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 14 sales a year recently, against 14 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

What homes rent for around EC2M

EC2M falls under Westminster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £2,517 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £5,378, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

Average monthly rent by size, Westminster

ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.

1 bed: £2,517 a month£2,5171 bed2 bed: £3,268 a month£3,2682 bed3 bed: £3,849 a month£3,8493 bed4+ bed: £5,378 a month£5,3784+ bed

Set against the £3,377,500 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 1.1%: 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.

Will EC2M prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 176% over five years in cash and up 116% 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.

Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers

EC2M ranks 5 of 21 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

The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.

EC2VEC2V · +715% over five years · median £10,655,000+715%EC3VEC3V · +503% over five years · median £18,650,000+503%EC4MEC4M · +394% over five years · median £592,500+394%EC3AEC3A · +283% over five years · median £1,914,900+283%EC2MEC2M · +176% over five years · median £3,377,500+176%EC1NEC1N · −40% over five years · median £552,100−40%EC2AEC2A · −51% over five years · median £465,000−51%EC1AEC1A · −55% over five years · median £665,000−55%EC2REC2R · −72% over five years · median £1,850,000−72%EC4REC4R · −74% over five years · median £547,500−74%

Inside EC2M, street group by street group

Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.

SectorMedian (latest)Sales that year
EC2M 4£4,555,0005

How EC2M compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EC area, dearest first:

DistrictMedian5-year
EC4N£91,500,000+1104%
EC3V£18,650,000+503%
EC2V£10,655,000+715%
EC3M£4,028,100-28%
EC2M (this report)£3,377,500+176%
EC3A£1,914,900+283%
EC2R£1,850,000-72%
EC3R£1,300,000+159%
EC4Y£765,000-37%
EC1V£745,000-17%
EC1A£665,000-55%
EC2Y£665,000-17%
EC1M£660,000-27%
EC4V£637,500-32%
EC1Y£615,000-23%
EC1R£595,000-25%
EC4M£592,500+394%
EC1N£552,100-40%
EC4R£547,500-74%
EC4A£537,500+6%
EC3N£520,000-29%
EC2A£465,000-51%

Dig further

See every individual EC2M sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference EC2M price page. 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.