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High Barnet market report EN5, Barnet
The EN5 (High Barnet) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 19,194 registered sales in EN5 (Barnet) 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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 129 registered 2026 sales put the EN5 (Barnet) median at £550,000, down 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £595,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 19,194 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
EN5 is a postcode district covering High Barnet, Arkley in Barnet. 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 EN5 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 EN5
In the EN5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £550,000, from 129 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £595,000, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in EN5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EN5 sales average about £6,410 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving EN5 93% above the national figure.
A typical EN5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 129 |
| 2025 | £600,000 | £614,348 | 457 |
| 2024 | £575,000 | £611,343 | 413 |
| 2023 | £595,300 | £654,089 | 356 |
| 2022 | £535,000 | £627,349 | 567 |
| 2021 | £610,000 | £772,339 | 607 |
| 2020 | £595,000 | £772,025 | 386 |
| 2019 | £520,000 | £681,596 | 407 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 499 |
| 2017 | £490,000 | £668,311 | 443 |
| 2016 | £512,500 | £716,993 | 577 |
| 2015 | £452,000 | £638,676 | 593 |
| 2014 | £395,000 | £560,377 | 630 |
| 2013 | £353,200 | £508,220 | 558 |
| 2012 | £346,500 | £510,005 | 470 |
| 2011 | £320,000 | £483,077 | 479 |
| 2010 | £290,000 | £454,795 | 525 |
| 2009 | £282,500 | £454,121 | 405 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 388 |
| 2007 | £285,000 | £483,439 | 837 |
| 2006 | £270,900 | £470,248 | 834 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 649 |
| 2004 | £237,400 | £431,165 | 736 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 675 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 969 |
| 2001 | £165,000 | £317,204 | 839 |
| 2000 | £150,000 | £294,375 | 786 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 943 |
| 1998 | £103,000 | £207,913 | 801 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 863 |
| 1996 | £81,500 | £171,880 | 789 |
| 1995 | £87,800 | £190,864 | 584 |
In cash terms the typical EN5 home went from £87,800 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 188%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EN5 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 1999 (+21.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−12.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £850,000 against £360,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, EN5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £850,000 | 9 | 2,313 |
| Semi-detached | £753,500 | 40 | 5,475 |
| Terraced | £600,000 | 29 | 3,772 |
| Flats | £360,000 | 51 | 7,634 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 309 EN5 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 791 sales a year before the financial crisis and 384 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 tenants pay around EN5
For renting purposes EN5 sits in Barnet. The ONS average private rent there is £1,934 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,487 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,174 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnet
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £550,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,934 a month (£23,208 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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 kind of market EN5 is
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.
Asked and answered: EN5 (High Barnet)
Are property prices falling in EN5 (High Barnet)?
Is EN5 (High Barnet) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EN5 (High Barnet)?
Will EN5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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.
What you could buy in EN5 now
Everything above is what homes in EN5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 224 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 57% above the EN5 median sold price.
13% 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in EN
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EN area. 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%) | — | — |
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
EN5 ranks 11 of 11 in the EN 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, EN area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside EN5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EN5 1 | £646,000 | 16 |
| EN5 2 | £577,500 | 35 |
| EN5 3 | £550,000 | 11 |
| EN5 4 | £600,000 | 29 |
| EN5 5 | £420,000 | 38 |
How EN5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| EN4 | £600,000 | -6% |
| EN6 | £587,500 | +2% |
| EN2 | £585,000 | +17% |
| EN5 (this report) | £550,000 | -10% |
| EN7 | £500,000 | +9% |
| EN1 | £460,000 | +2% |
| EN10 | £447,500 | +3% |
| EN8 | £425,000 | +14% |
| EN9 | £400,000 | +5% |
| EN3 | £396,000 | +6% |
| EN11 | £395,000 | +7% |
Selling in EN5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in EN5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from EN5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded EN5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim EN5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EN5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual EN5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.