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Blackfriars market report EC4V, London
The EC4V (Blackfriars) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 768 HM Land Registry entries for EC4V (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in EC4V (London) came in at £890,000, out of 1 registered, up 27% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £890,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,370 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 768 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
EC4V is the postcode district covering Blackfriars 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 EC4V 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 EC4V
In the EC4V property market, the 2026 median sale price is £890,000, from 1 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £890,000, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
EC4V prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put EC4V at roughly £11,370 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EC4V sits 212% above the national market.
EC4V'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 | £890,000 | £890,000 | 1 |
| 2025 | £485,000 | £496,598 | 13 |
| 2024 | £474,600 | £504,597 | 9 |
| 2023 | £690,000 | £758,142 | 9 |
| 2022 | £555,000 | £650,801 | 7 |
| 2021 | £702,500 | £889,456 | 10 |
| 2020 | £957,500 | £1,242,376 | 4 |
| 2019 | £491,000 | £643,583 | 5 |
| 2018 | £555,000 | £739,825 | 7 |
| 2017 | £580,200 | £791,335 | 12 |
| 2016 | £607,500 | £849,899 | 10 |
| 2015 | £785,000 | £1,109,205 | 23 |
| 2014 | £917,500 | £1,301,634 | 33 |
| 2013 | £473,000 | £680,600 | 20 |
| 2012 | £420,000 | £618,188 | 22 |
| 2011 | £430,000 | £649,135 | 27 |
| 2010 | £365,000 | £572,414 | 21 |
| 2009 | £485,000 | £779,642 | 17 |
| 2008 | £365,000 | £598,312 | 55 |
| 2007 | £407,500 | £691,233 | 16 |
| 2006 | £300,000 | £520,762 | 22 |
| 2005 | £285,000 | £507,185 | 9 |
| 2004 | £260,000 | £472,211 | 25 |
| 2003 | £314,000 | £578,464 | 23 |
| 2002 | £266,200 | £500,853 | 42 |
| 2001 | £260,000 | £499,837 | 37 |
| 2000 | £225,000 | £441,563 | 79 |
| 1999 | £179,500 | £357,734 | 114 |
| 1998 | £235,000 | £474,364 | 57 |
| 1997 | £123,500 | £253,274 | 24 |
| 1996 | £150,000 | £316,343 | 13 |
| 1995 | £105,500 | £229,341 | 2 |
In cash terms the typical EC4V home went from £105,500 in 1995 to £890,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 288%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2014, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2014 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the EC4V 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 2020 (+95.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−31.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +83.5% | +79.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in EC4V
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 16 sales completed in EC4V. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 32 sales a year before the financial crisis and 8 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.
The shape of the EC4V market
This is a thin market: 16 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. 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. EC4V sits 3 of 17 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What tenants pay around EC4V
For renting purposes EC4V sits in Westminster. The ONS average private rent there is £3,163 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £2,517 a month for a typical one-bed to £5,378 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, which against the £890,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: EC4V (Blackfriars)
How much did a house sell for in EC4V (Blackfriars)?
Are property prices falling in EC4V (Blackfriars)?
Is EC4V (Blackfriars) a good place to buy a house?
Will EC4V prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in EC4V right now
Everything above is what homes in EC4V sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 19 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 47% below the EC4V median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 42% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 EC4V 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.
What another bedroom costs in EC
Real sold prices by size across the EC area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £560,050 | £825,000 (+47%) | £1,310,000 (+59%) | £1,882,500 (+44%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
EC4V ranks 2 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.
Five-year change in the median, EC area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside EC4V, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EC4V 3 | £890,000 | 1 |
| EC4V 5 | £654,300 | 2 |
How EC4V 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in EC4V? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EC4V's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EC4V.
Dig further
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See every individual EC4V 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.