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St Mary Axe market report EC3A, London
The EC3A (St Mary Axe) house price history in full, 1996 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 149 HM Land Registry entries for EC3A (London), going back to 1996: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to February 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for EC3A (London) is £1,500,000, from 1 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £1,500,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 149 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1996, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district EC3A covering St Mary Axe, Aldgate 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 EC3A 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 EC3A
The 2026 median for EC3A is £1,500,000, taken from 1 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £1,500,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
EC3A prices by floor area
Per square metre, EC3A homes have averaged around £11,170 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving EC3A 426% above the national figure.
The price of a typical EC3A home, 1996 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £1,500,000 | £1,500,000 | 1 |
| 2025 | £1,805,000 | £1,848,163 | 7 |
| 2024 | £2,045,000 | £2,174,255 | 10 |
| 2023 | £1,651,800 | £1,814,925 | 14 |
| 2022 | £1,477,600 | £1,732,655 | 20 |
| 2021 | £1,259,600 | £1,594,816 | 22 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 1 |
| 2017 | £585,000 | £797,881 | 1 |
| 2014 | £625,000 | £886,672 | 1 |
| 2013 | £460,000 | £661,894 | 2 |
| 2012 | £375,000 | £551,953 | 1 |
| 2011 | £472,600 | £713,444 | 4 |
| 2009 | £331,000 | £532,085 | 3 |
| 2007 | £423,500 | £718,374 | 4 |
| 2006 | £320,000 | £555,479 | 3 |
| 2005 | £315,000 | £560,573 | 5 |
| 2004 | £333,800 | £606,246 | 2 |
| 2003 | £260,000 | £478,983 | 6 |
| 2002 | £260,000 | £489,188 | 9 |
| 2001 | £246,500 | £473,884 | 8 |
| 2000 | £195,000 | £382,688 | 8 |
| 1999 | £247,500 | £493,255 | 8 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 3 |
| 1996 | £158,800 | £334,902 | 6 |
In cash terms the typical EC3A home went from £158,800 in 1996 to £1,500,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 348%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EC3A 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 2014 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−21.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.9% | −18.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 12 years (since 2014) | +7.6% | +4.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +8.0% | +5.1% |
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.
Sales activity in EC3A
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 14 EC3A sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 10 sales a year over the last five years against 6 before the financial crisis. 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.
The shape of the EC3A market
Only 14 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes EC3A 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, EC3A ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around EC3A
The local authority for EC3A is Westminster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £1,500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £3,163 a month (£37,956 a year) works out at a 2.5% 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.
What people ask about EC3A (St Mary Axe)
How much did a house sell for in EC3A (St Mary Axe)?
Are property prices falling in EC3A (St Mary Axe)?
Is EC3A (St Mary Axe) a good place to buy a house?
Where do EC3A prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
EC3A's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in EC3A sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 2 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the EC3A median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every EC3A 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 EC
Real sold prices by size across the EC area, straight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
EC3A ranks 3 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.
How EC3A 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 (this report) | £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 | £541,200 | -29% |
| EC3N | £490,000 | -16% |
| EC2A | £465,000 | -51% |
Selling a home in EC3A? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EC3A, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EC3A's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EC3A sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working EC3A: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim EC3A.
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See every individual EC3A sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. 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.