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North Finchley market report N12 8, London
The N12 8 (North Finchley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,718 HM Land Registry entries for N12 8 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in N12 8 (London) came in at £450,000, out of 23 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £572,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,710 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,718 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
N12 8 is one sector of N12 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where N12 8 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 N12 8 homes really sell for
In the N12 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £450,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £572,000, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in N12 8
The last five years of sales put N12 8 at roughly £6,710 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so N12 8 trades 58% above the country as a whole.
N12 8'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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 90 |
| 2024 | £497,000 | £528,413 | 79 |
| 2023 | £507,500 | £557,619 | 76 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 76 |
| 2021 | £492,500 | £623,569 | 86 |
| 2020 | £475,000 | £616,322 | 77 |
| 2019 | £455,000 | £596,396 | 63 |
| 2018 | £437,500 | £583,196 | 88 |
| 2017 | £479,900 | £654,535 | 78 |
| 2016 | £530,000 | £741,475 | 160 |
| 2015 | £424,000 | £599,112 | 105 |
| 2014 | £370,000 | £524,910 | 104 |
| 2013 | £340,000 | £489,226 | 107 |
| 2012 | £303,000 | £445,978 | 86 |
| 2011 | £288,500 | £435,524 | 92 |
| 2010 | £320,000 | £501,842 | 101 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 71 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 69 |
| 2007 | £264,000 | £447,818 | 180 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 166 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 133 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 166 |
| 2003 | £219,200 | £403,820 | 148 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 203 |
| 2001 | £161,500 | £310,476 | 145 |
| 2000 | £156,800 | £307,720 | 172 |
| 1999 | £132,200 | £263,468 | 178 |
| 1998 | £94,000 | £189,746 | 137 |
| 1997 | £86,000 | £176,369 | 139 |
| 1996 | £85,200 | £179,683 | 138 |
| 1995 | £81,500 | £177,168 | 182 |
In cash terms the typical N12 8 home went from £81,500 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 154%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 39% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the N12 8 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 (+40.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.8%). 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) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.6% | −4.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
N12 8 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 164 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
What kind of market N12 8 is
This is a thin market: 23 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. Against the N12 district median, N12 8 sits 18% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of N12 8
For renting purposes N12 8 sits in Barnet. The ONS average private rent there is £1,934 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,487 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,174, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Barnet
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,934 a month is £23,208 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Common questions on N12 8 (North Finchley)
Are property prices falling in N12 8 (North Finchley)?
Is N12 8 (North Finchley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in N12 8 (North Finchley)?
Are N12 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in N12 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 89 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole N12 district, not just N12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 16% 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 N12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: N prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the N area, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | — | £950,000 | £1,445,000 (+52%) | £2,200,000 (+52%) |
| Semi-detached | £430,000 | £535,000 (+24%) | £755,000 (+41%) | £990,000 (+31%) | £1,375,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £472,750 | £513,250 (+9%) | £670,500 (+31%) | £1,005,750 (+50%) | £1,607,500 (+60%) |
| Flat | £405,000 | £542,500 (+34%) | £785,567 (+45%) | £1,211,250 (+54%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the N area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
N area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in N12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of N12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| N12 0 | £642,500 | 24 |
| N12 7 | £985,000 | 20 |
| N12 9 | £465,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full N12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how N12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in N12 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in N12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from N12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded N12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working N12 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim N12 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to N12 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual N12 8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.