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High Barnet market report EN5 1, Barnet
The EN5 1 (High Barnet) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,951 HM Land Registry entries for EN5 1 (Barnet), 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in EN5 1 (Barnet) sold for £646,000 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £680,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,080 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,951 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
EN5 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EN5 (Barnet). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where EN5 1 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 a home in EN5 1 sells for
The 2026 median for EN5 1 is £646,000, taken from 16 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £680,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in EN5 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EN5 1 costs about £6,080 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts EN5 1 127% above the country at large.
EN5 1's median sold price, 1995 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 | £646,000 | £646,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £547,500 | £560,592 | 88 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 72 |
| 2023 | £599,000 | £658,155 | 72 |
| 2022 | £555,000 | £650,801 | 90 |
| 2021 | £570,000 | £721,694 | 127 |
| 2020 | £475,000 | £616,322 | 59 |
| 2019 | £445,000 | £583,288 | 74 |
| 2018 | £469,000 | £625,186 | 102 |
| 2017 | £455,000 | £620,574 | 76 |
| 2016 | £440,000 | £615,564 | 105 |
| 2015 | £457,500 | £646,448 | 110 |
| 2014 | £355,000 | £503,630 | 121 |
| 2013 | £354,000 | £509,371 | 113 |
| 2012 | £370,000 | £544,594 | 93 |
| 2011 | £320,000 | £483,077 | 116 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 96 |
| 2009 | £269,000 | £432,420 | 96 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 99 |
| 2007 | £295,000 | £500,402 | 181 |
| 2006 | £274,000 | £475,629 | 173 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 139 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 153 |
| 2003 | £230,000 | £423,716 | 159 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 224 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 221 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 137 |
| 1999 | £118,200 | £235,566 | 210 |
| 1998 | £111,000 | £224,061 | 143 |
| 1997 | £94,500 | £193,800 | 168 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 207 |
| 1995 | £94,000 | £204,342 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical EN5 1 home went from £94,000 in 1995 to £646,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 216%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EN5 1 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 2003 (+48.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−27.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EN5 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +18.0% | +15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
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.
Sales activity in EN5 1
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 16 EN5 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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 rental side of EN5 1
The local authority for EN5 1 is Barnet, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,934 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,487 a month here against £3,174 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnet
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,934 a month is £23,208 a year, which against the £646,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
The shape of the EN5 1 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. 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. Within EN5, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about EN5 1 (High Barnet)
How much did a house sell for in EN5 1 (High Barnet)?
Are property prices falling in EN5 1 (High Barnet)?
Is EN5 1 (High Barnet) a good place to buy a house?
Will EN5 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in EN5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 224 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EN5 district, not just EN5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 EN5 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.
Moving up a bedroom in EN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EN area, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £525,000 | £690,000 (+31%) | £975,000 (+41%) | £1,359,000 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £402,625 | £470,000 (+17%) | £555,000 (+18%) | £720,000 (+30%) | £971,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £361,750 | £424,000 (+17%) | £480,000 (+13%) | £610,000 (+27%) | £830,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £250,000 | £335,000 (+34%) | £469,000 (+40%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the EN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the EN area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in EN5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are EN5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EN5 2 | £577,500 | 35 |
| EN5 3 | £550,000 | 11 |
| EN5 4 | £600,000 | 29 |
| EN5 5 | £420,000 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full EN5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EN5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in EN5 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EN5 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the EN5 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EN5 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim EN5 1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EN5 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual EN5 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.