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East Finchley market report N2, London
The N2 (East Finchley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 11,031 sales registered with HM Land Registry in N2 (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for N2 (London) is £712,500, from 70 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £1,466,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,500 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 11,031 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district N2 covering East Finchley, Fortis Green sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where N2 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 N2
Take the 70 registered 2026 sales in N2 and the middle price, the median, is £712,500. The mean lands at £1,466,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
N2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, N2 homes have averaged around £8,500 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so N2 trades 150% above the country as a whole.
A typical N2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £712,500 | £712,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £665,000 | £680,902 | 254 |
| 2024 | £796,000 | £846,312 | 252 |
| 2023 | £770,000 | £846,042 | 213 |
| 2022 | £715,000 | £838,419 | 279 |
| 2021 | £685,000 | £867,298 | 328 |
| 2020 | £752,000 | £975,736 | 197 |
| 2019 | £663,200 | £869,296 | 242 |
| 2018 | £660,000 | £879,792 | 208 |
| 2017 | £718,500 | £979,962 | 224 |
| 2016 | £575,000 | £804,431 | 251 |
| 2015 | £500,000 | £706,500 | 274 |
| 2014 | £500,000 | £709,337 | 299 |
| 2013 | £435,000 | £625,922 | 312 |
| 2012 | £388,200 | £571,382 | 341 |
| 2011 | £367,500 | £554,784 | 282 |
| 2010 | £410,000 | £642,986 | 325 |
| 2009 | £350,000 | £562,628 | 275 |
| 2008 | £350,000 | £573,724 | 226 |
| 2007 | £311,000 | £527,543 | 499 |
| 2006 | £274,000 | £475,629 | 509 |
| 2005 | £265,500 | £472,483 | 408 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 407 |
| 2003 | £227,800 | £419,663 | 362 |
| 2002 | £225,000 | £423,336 | 552 |
| 2001 | £198,000 | £380,645 | 479 |
| 2000 | £156,000 | £306,150 | 480 |
| 1999 | £136,000 | £271,041 | 547 |
| 1998 | £126,000 | £254,340 | 417 |
| 1997 | £116,500 | £238,918 | 531 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 625 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 363 |
In cash terms the typical N2 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £712,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 272%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the N2 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 1997 (+47.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−16.5%). 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) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £2,875,000 against £375,000 for a flat, 7.7 times the price.
Median by property type, N2
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 | £2,875,000 | 8 | 857 |
| Semi-detached | £1,150,000 | 11 | 1,961 |
| Terraced | £868,200 | 19 | 2,515 |
| Flats | £375,000 | 32 | 5,698 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 166 sales completed in N2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 462 sales a year before the financial crisis and 214 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the N2 market
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. N2 sits 2 of 23 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around N2
N2 falls under Barnet, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,934 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £712,500 median sold price, £1,934 a month is £23,208 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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 N2 (East Finchley)
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What people search before landing on N2 (East Finchley)
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: £752,000 in 2020 against £712,500 in 2026, which is a fall of 5% in cash (down 27% 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.
Where do N2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 N2 right now
Everything above is what homes in N2 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 44 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 58% above the N2 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 N2 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 N
Real sold prices by size across the N area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
N2 ranks 6 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside N2, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N2 0 | £949,000 | 34 |
| N2 8 | £375,000 | 16 |
| N2 9 | £650,200 | 20 |
How N2 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in N2? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in N2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from N2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded N2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working N2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim N2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about N2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every N2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.