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Kings Cross Central market report N1C, London
The N1C (Kings Cross Central) house price history in full, 2013 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 886 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in N1C (London) since 2013, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical N1C (London) home changed hands for £1,000,000 in 2026 (median of 3 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £2,420,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £14,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 886 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 2013, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
N1C is the postcode district covering Kings Cross Central 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 N1C 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 N1C sells for
The N1C median stands at £1,000,000 for 2026, built from 3 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £2,420,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in N1C
The last five years of sales put N1C at roughly £14,720 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts N1C 251% above the country at large.
N1C's median sold price, 2013 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 | £1,000,000 | £1,000,000 | 3 |
| 2025 | £1,075,000 | £1,100,707 | 33 |
| 2024 | £1,125,000 | £1,196,106 | 43 |
| 2023 | £1,193,100 | £1,310,926 | 87 |
| 2022 | £1,091,000 | £1,279,322 | 22 |
| 2021 | £1,030,000 | £1,304,113 | 37 |
| 2020 | £1,115,800 | £1,447,774 | 82 |
| 2019 | £1,054,000 | £1,381,542 | 93 |
| 2018 | £1,049,200 | £1,398,603 | 134 |
| 2017 | £1,125,000 | £1,534,387 | 75 |
| 2016 | £1,124,000 | £1,572,487 | 76 |
| 2015 | £980,000 | £1,384,740 | 120 |
| 2014 | £1,325,000 | £1,879,744 | 9 |
| 2013 | £810,000 | £1,165,509 | 72 |
In cash terms the typical N1C home went from £810,000 in 2013 to £1,000,000 in 2026, a 23% rise. Strip out inflation, though, and the change is small: about -14% in real terms. Most of the cash growth is money losing value rather than homes gaining it. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2014. The market now sits about 47% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the N1C 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 2014 (+63.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−26.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.0% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.2% | −4.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in N1C
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in N1C. 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 N1C is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes N1C a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. N1C is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Rents around N1C
N1C falls under Camden, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,759 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £2,008 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,890 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Camden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, which against the £1,000,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
What people search before landing on N1C (Kings Cross Central)
These are the recorded searches for the wider N report family, answered with this page's own figures.
People ask what are current house prices in north london and have they increased since 2020
. From the register: £1,115,800 in 2020 against £1,000,000 in 2026, which is a fall of 10% in cash (down 31% after inflation).
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.
Asked and answered: N1C (Kings Cross Central)
Are property prices falling in N1C (Kings Cross Central)?
Is N1C (Kings Cross Central) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in N1C (Kings Cross Central)?
Will N1C prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
N1C's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in N1C sold for. The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the N1C median sold price.
11% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 N1C 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.
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%) | — |
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
N1C ranks 11 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.
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.
Inside N1C, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N1C 4 | £1,000,000 | 3 |
How N1C compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the N area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| N1C (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Before you sell in N1C: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in N1C, open the average prices map and zoom from the N1C shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded N1C 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 N1C.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with N1C already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual N1C 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.