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North Finchley market report N12, London
The N12 (North Finchley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 12,706 HM Land Registry entries for N12 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in N12 (London) sold for £550,000 in 2026, the median of 86 registered sales, down 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £650,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,706 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
N12 is the postcode district covering North Finchley, Woodside Park 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 N12 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.
The going rate for a home in N12
Take the 86 registered 2026 sales in N12 and the middle price, the median, is £550,000. The mean lands at £650,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in N12
Measured by floor area, the last five years of N12 sales average about £6,550 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 N12 trades 93% above the country as a whole.
A typical N12 home, priced year by year (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 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 86 |
| 2025 | £515,000 | £527,315 | 256 |
| 2024 | £480,000 | £510,339 | 316 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 247 |
| 2022 | £570,000 | £668,390 | 265 |
| 2021 | £620,800 | £786,013 | 368 |
| 2020 | £547,500 | £710,393 | 298 |
| 2019 | £534,500 | £700,602 | 262 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 275 |
| 2017 | £510,000 | £695,589 | 271 |
| 2016 | £520,000 | £727,485 | 367 |
| 2015 | £440,800 | £622,850 | 360 |
| 2014 | £384,500 | £545,480 | 384 |
| 2013 | £388,000 | £558,293 | 369 |
| 2012 | £335,000 | £493,078 | 306 |
| 2011 | £295,000 | £445,337 | 323 |
| 2010 | £325,000 | £509,684 | 322 |
| 2009 | £268,500 | £431,616 | 254 |
| 2008 | £262,000 | £429,473 | 232 |
| 2007 | £280,000 | £474,958 | 572 |
| 2006 | £263,800 | £457,923 | 550 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 543 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 701 |
| 2003 | £217,500 | £400,688 | 466 |
| 2002 | £217,000 | £408,284 | 605 |
| 2001 | £172,000 | £330,661 | 527 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 543 |
| 1999 | £138,000 | £275,027 | 605 |
| 1998 | £102,200 | £206,298 | 524 |
| 1997 | £97,000 | £198,927 | 599 |
| 1996 | £91,500 | £192,969 | 476 |
| 1995 | £89,000 | £193,472 | 434 |
In cash terms the typical N12 home went from £89,000 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 184%, 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 30% 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 N12 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 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 53% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,170,000 against £420,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, N12
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 | £1,170,000 | 5 | 492 |
| Semi-detached | £850,000 | 23 | 3,026 |
| Terraced | £720,000 | 21 | 2,393 |
| Flats | £420,000 | 37 | 6,795 |
Sales activity in N12
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
N12 recorded 179 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 563 sales a year before the financial crisis and 234 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 N12
N12 falls under Barnet, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £550,000 median sold price, £1,934 a month is £23,208 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
What people search before landing on N12 (North Finchley)
These are the recorded searches for the wider N report family, answered with this page's own figures.
One real search that lands here: what are current house prices in north london and have they increased since 2020
. The record's answer: the N12 (North Finchley) median was £547,500 in 2020 and £550,000 in 2026, up 0% in cash and down 23% in today's money.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
N12 (North Finchley): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in N12 (North Finchley)?
Are property prices falling in N12 (North Finchley)?
Is N12 (North Finchley) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to N12 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in N12 now
Everything above is what homes in N12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 89 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the N12 median sold price.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 N12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in N
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the N area. 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%) | — |
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
N12 ranks 19 of 23 in the N 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, N area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside N12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N12 0 | £642,500 | 24 |
| N12 7 | £985,000 | 20 |
| N12 8 | £450,000 | 23 |
| N12 9 | £465,000 | 19 |
How N12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the N area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| N1C | £1,000,000 | -3% |
| N2 | £712,500 | +4% |
| N6 | £685,000 | -16% |
| N14 | £682,500 | -4% |
| N10 | £642,500 | -5% |
| N1 | £627,500 | -10% |
| N20 | £616,500 | -14% |
| N22 | £607,500 | +18% |
| N19 | £602,500 | +8% |
| N21 | £602,500 | -7% |
| N5 | £595,000 | -12% |
| N3 | £587,500 | -13% |
| N4 | £570,000 | -1% |
| N8 | £560,000 | +2% |
| N15 | £557,500 | +3% |
| N12 (this report) | £550,000 | -11% |
| N16 | £546,000 | -6% |
| N13 | £545,000 | +5% |
| N7 | £525,000 | -6% |
| N11 | £525,000 | +4% |
| N17 | £450,000 | -5% |
| N18 | £425,000 | +8% |
| N9 | £406,000 | +7% |
Thinking of selling in N12? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in N12, open the average prices map and zoom from the N12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded N12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim N12.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with N12 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual N12 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.