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Fetter Lane market report EC4A, London
The standing EC4A (Fetter Lane) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 559 registered sales in EC4A (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to March 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in EC4A (London) came in at £665,000, out of 2 registered, down 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £665,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,200 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 559 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
EC4A is a postcode district covering Fetter Lane in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where EC4A 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.
Today's EC4A prices, from the sold record
2 sales were registered in EC4A in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £665,000. The mean works out at £665,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in EC4A
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EC4A sales average about £12,200 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EC4A trades 133% above the country as a whole.
EC4A's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £665,000 | £665,000 | 2 |
| 2025 | £497,500 | £509,397 | 8 |
| 2024 | £571,300 | £607,409 | 7 |
| 2023 | £640,000 | £703,204 | 6 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 9 |
| 2021 | £820,000 | £1,038,226 | 8 |
| 2020 | £455,000 | £590,372 | 6 |
| 2019 | £715,000 | £937,194 | 9 |
| 2018 | £720,000 | £959,774 | 5 |
| 2017 | £620,000 | £845,618 | 5 |
| 2016 | £706,000 | £987,701 | 6 |
| 2015 | £999,000 | £1,411,587 | 47 |
| 2014 | £890,000 | £1,262,620 | 54 |
| 2013 | £601,000 | £864,779 | 31 |
| 2012 | £378,000 | £556,369 | 8 |
| 2011 | £390,000 | £588,750 | 12 |
| 2010 | £371,500 | £582,608 | 16 |
| 2009 | £265,000 | £425,990 | 8 |
| 2008 | £395,000 | £647,488 | 9 |
| 2007 | £377,500 | £640,345 | 22 |
| 2006 | £258,000 | £447,855 | 11 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 34 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 13 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 24 |
| 2002 | £202,500 | £381,002 | 17 |
| 2001 | £285,800 | £549,436 | 14 |
| 2000 | £180,000 | £353,250 | 32 |
| 1999 | £177,000 | £352,752 | 49 |
| 1998 | £190,000 | £383,529 | 55 |
| 1997 | £115,000 | £235,842 | 15 |
| 1996 | £115,000 | £242,530 | 7 |
| 1995 | £86,200 | £187,386 | 10 |
In cash terms the typical EC4A home went from £86,200 in 1995 to £665,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 255%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 53% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EC4A 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 2021 (+80.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−39.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EC4A has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +33.7% | +30.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.1% | −8.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
EC4A recorded 17 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 6 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 EC4A trades
This is a thin market: 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
What tenants pay around EC4A
The local authority for EC4A 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.
Set against the £665,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
EC4A (Fetter Lane): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in EC4A (Fetter Lane)?
Is EC4A (Fetter Lane) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EC4A (Fetter Lane)?
Will EC4A prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in EC4A today
Everything above is what homes in EC4A sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 10 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 32% below the EC4A median sold price.
60% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every EC4A 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.
Moving up a bedroom in EC: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the EC area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
EC4A ranks 12 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.
EC area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside EC4A, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EC4A 1 | £665,000 | 2 |
| EC4A 3 | £537,500 | 3 |
How EC4A 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 (this report) | £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 EC4A? 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 EC4A, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EC4A's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EC4A sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EC4A.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EC4A already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EC4A 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.