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EC3R local market report London

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 419 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EC3R (London) since 1999, 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 2025. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

EC3R is the postcode district covering Monument, Billingsgate 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 EC3R sits

Click the map to open EC3R on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.

EC3MEC3VEC4REC3NEC4NEC3R
£1,300,000median sold price, 2025
+159%five-year change (cash)
59sales in the last 12 months
2.9%gross rental yield (est.)

What a home in EC3R sells for

The 2025 median in EC3R is £1,300,000, from 9 registered sales; the mean, £2,608,300, 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 EC3R trades 374% above the country as a whole.

The price of a typical EC3R home, 1999 to 2025

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)
£5M£10M£15M£20M20002005201520202025 1999: £212,500 at the time · £413,611 in today's money · 9 sales2000: £177,500 at the time · £340,208 in today's money · 53 sales2002: £230,000 at the time · £422,636 in today's money · 15 sales2005: £237,000 at the time · £411,914 in today's money · 5 sales2006: £267,000 at the time · £452,654 in today's money · 9 sales2011: £387,500 at the time · £571,314 in today's money · 6 sales2012: £552,500 at the time · £794,219 in today's money · 8 sales2013: £810,000 at the time · £1,138,289 in today's money · 7 sales2014: £760,000 at the time · £1,053,012 in today's money · 29 sales2015: £797,500 at the time · £1,100,550 in today's money · 24 sales2016: £573,800 at the time · £784,004 in today's money · 9 sales2017: £550,000 at the time · £732,625 in today's money · 7 sales2018: £958,200 at the time · £1,247,468 in today's money · 138 sales2019: £1,759,300 at the time · £2,252,165 in today's money · 42 sales2020: £502,500 at the time · £636,777 in today's money · 6 sales2022: £2,840,000 at the time · £3,252,448 in today's money · 7 sales2023: £16,696,100 at the time · £17,916,499 in today's money · 10 sales2024: £1,250,000 at the time · £1,297,968 in today's money · 9 sales2025: £1,300,000 at the time · £1,300,000 in today's money · 9 sales
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YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2025£1,300,000£1,300,0009
2024£1,250,000£1,297,9689
2023£16,696,100£17,916,49910
2022£2,840,000£3,252,4487
2020£502,500£636,7776
2019£1,759,300£2,252,16542
2018£958,200£1,247,468138
2017£550,000£732,6257
2016£573,800£784,0049
2015£797,500£1,100,55024
2014£760,000£1,053,01229
2013£810,000£1,138,2897
2012£552,500£794,2198
2011£387,500£571,3146
2006£267,000£452,6549
2005£237,000£411,9145
2002£230,000£422,63615
2000£177,500£340,20853
1999£212,500£413,6119

In cash terms the typical EC3R home went from £212,500 in 1999 to £1,300,000 in 2025, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 214%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 93% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

Year-on-year change in the EC3R median

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

+1000% -1000% 0% 2000 · −16.5% on the year before2006 · +12.7% on the year before2012 · +42.6% on the year before2013 · +46.6% on the year before2014 · −6.2% on the year before2015 · +4.9% on the year before2016 · −28.1% on the year before2017 · −4.1% on the year before2018 · +74.2% on the year before2019 · +83.6% on the year before2020 · −71.4% on the year before2023 · +487.9% on the year before2024 · −92.5% on the year before2025 · +4.0% on the year before2000201520202025

The strongest year on record here is 2023 (+487.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−92.5%). 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 2024)+4.0%+0.2%
5 years (since 2020)+20.9%+15.3%
10 years (since 2015)+5.0%+1.7%
20 years (since 2005)+8.9%+5.9%

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.

100200 1999: 9 sales2000: 53 sales2002: 15 sales2005: 5 sales2006: 9 sales2011: 6 sales2012: 8 sales2013: 7 sales2014: 29 sales2015: 24 sales2016: 9 sales2017: 7 sales2018: 138 sales2019: 42 sales2020: 6 sales2022: 7 sales2023: 10 sales2024: 9 sales2025: 9 sales20002005201520202025

The last five years, month by month

Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.

50100 April 2000 · 8 sales registeredJune 2000 · 29 sales registeredJuly 2000 · 6 sales registeredJanuary 2002 · 8 sales registeredJune 2002 · 3 sales registeredNovember 2005 · 3 sales registeredJuly 2011 · 3 sales registeredJanuary 2014 · 3 sales registeredJuly 2014 · 10 sales registeredAugust 2014 · 8 sales registeredMarch 2015 · 10 sales registeredAugust 2015 · 5 sales registeredJune 2018 · 64 sales registeredJuly 2018 · 14 sales registeredAugust 2018 · 6 sales registeredSeptember 2018 · 8 sales registeredOctober 2018 · 10 sales registeredNovember 2018 · 17 sales registeredDecember 2018 · 16 sales registeredMarch 2019 · 4 sales registeredApril 2019 · 4 sales registeredMay 2019 · 4 sales registeredJune 2019 · 4 sales registeredJuly 2019 · 5 sales registeredAugust 2019 · 5 sales registeredSeptember 2019 · 4 sales registeredOctober 2019 · 3 sales registeredDecember 2019 · 4 sales registeredMarch 2023 · 3 sales registeredFebruary 2025 · 3 sales registered

EC3R recorded 59 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 21 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8 a year over the last five. 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 EC3R

EC3R 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 £1,300,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: 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 EC3R prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 159% over five years in cash and up 104% 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

EC3R ranks 6 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%EC3REC3R · +159% over five years · median £1,300,000+159%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 EC3R, 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
EC3R 6£1,892,80033
EC3R 8£1,000,0006

How EC3R 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£3,377,500+176%
EC3A£1,914,900+283%
EC2R£1,850,000-72%
EC3R (this report)£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 EC3R sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference EC3R 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.