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Whetstone market report N20, London
The N20 (Whetstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,290 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in N20 (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in N20 (London) came in at £640,000, out of 91 registered, down 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £752,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,020 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,290 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district N20 covering Whetstone, Totteridge, Oakleigh Park 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 N20 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 N20 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for N20 is £640,000, taken from 91 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £752,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in N20
Per square metre, N20 homes have averaged around £7,020 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 N20 trades 125% above the country as a whole.
N20's median sold price, 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 | £640,000 | £640,000 | 91 |
| 2025 | £734,400 | £751,962 | 246 |
| 2024 | £677,500 | £720,322 | 234 |
| 2023 | £550,000 | £604,316 | 316 |
| 2022 | £675,000 | £791,515 | 316 |
| 2021 | £721,000 | £912,879 | 305 |
| 2020 | £670,000 | £869,339 | 231 |
| 2019 | £640,000 | £838,887 | 261 |
| 2018 | £622,500 | £829,804 | 244 |
| 2017 | £553,000 | £754,236 | 365 |
| 2016 | £529,000 | £740,076 | 263 |
| 2015 | £538,000 | £760,194 | 249 |
| 2014 | £500,000 | £709,337 | 276 |
| 2013 | £400,000 | £575,560 | 279 |
| 2012 | £385,000 | £566,672 | 233 |
| 2011 | £390,000 | £588,750 | 242 |
| 2010 | £330,000 | £517,525 | 250 |
| 2009 | £375,000 | £602,816 | 185 |
| 2008 | £363,000 | £595,034 | 153 |
| 2007 | £349,000 | £592,001 | 326 |
| 2006 | £285,000 | £494,724 | 464 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 279 |
| 2004 | £242,500 | £440,427 | 383 |
| 2003 | £248,500 | £457,797 | 301 |
| 2002 | £231,500 | £435,565 | 364 |
| 2001 | £197,000 | £378,722 | 347 |
| 2000 | £193,000 | £378,763 | 337 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 405 |
| 1998 | £127,500 | £257,368 | 368 |
| 1997 | £113,500 | £232,766 | 381 |
| 1996 | £106,800 | £225,236 | 354 |
| 1995 | £104,400 | £226,950 | 242 |
In cash terms the typical N20 home went from £104,400 in 1995 to £640,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 182%, 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 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the N20 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 2000 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−18.5%). 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 year (since 2025) | −12.9% | −14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −0.8% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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.
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 £1,405,000 against £376,000 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, N20
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 | £1,405,000 | 10 | 1,460 |
| Semi-detached | £937,500 | 28 | 2,699 |
| Terraced | £680,000 | 13 | 1,395 |
| Flats | £376,000 | 40 | 3,736 |
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
N20 recorded 205 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 350 sales a year before the financial crisis and 241 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 N20
For renting purposes N20 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 £640,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,934 a month (£23,208 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
The shape of the N20 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. N20 sits 6 of 23 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Common questions on N20 (Whetstone)
Is N20 (Whetstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in N20 (Whetstone)?
Are property prices falling in N20 (Whetstone)?
Will N20 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% 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.
N20's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in N20 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 108 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 103% above the N20 median sold price.
Set against 205 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 108 homes on the market here are roughly 6 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
3% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 N20 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.
What is for sale against what sells in N20
Detached homes are 43% of what is listed in N20 but 14% of what sold over 2024 and 2025: the market is being offered more of them than it has been taking, which tends to give a buyer of one room to talk.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 43% | 14% |
| Semi-detached | 26% | 30% |
| Terraced | 14% | 15% |
| Flats | 17% | 41% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares.
The N20 sales calendar
March is when N20 changes hands most (14.8% of the 1,417 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 4.4%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 114 | 8.0% |
| February | 132 | 9.3% |
| March | 210 | 14.8% |
| April | 63 | 4.4% |
| May | 96 | 6.8% |
| June | 151 | 10.7% |
| July | 98 | 6.9% |
| August | 99 | 7.0% |
| September | 123 | 8.7% |
| October | 98 | 6.9% |
| November | 118 | 8.3% |
| December | 115 | 8.1% |
Bedroom by bedroom: N prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the N area, 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 | — | — | £744,500 | £1,022,750 (+37%) | £1,383,750 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £480,000 | £551,000 (+15%) | £767,000 (+39%) | £950,457 (+24%) | £1,200,000 (+26%) |
| Terraced | £473,500 | £535,000 (+13%) | £690,000 (+29%) | £950,000 (+38%) | £1,460,000 (+54%) |
| Flat | £388,000 | £495,000 (+28%) | £647,000 (+31%) | £830,000 (+28%) | £1,075,000 (+30%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
N20 ranks 20 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.
Winners and losers across the N area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside N20, 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.
How N20 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% |
| N14 | £700,000 | -1% |
| N6 | £685,000 | -16% |
| N1 | £650,000 | -6% |
| N20 (this report) | £640,000 | -11% |
| N5 | £625,000 | -8% |
| N10 | £622,800 | -8% |
| N21 | £611,300 | -6% |
| N19 | £595,000 | +6% |
| N3 | £590,000 | -13% |
| N22 | £586,000 | +14% |
| N4 | £580,000 | +1% |
| N16 | £575,000 | -1% |
| N8 | £562,200 | +2% |
| N15 | £560,000 | +4% |
| N12 | £550,000 | -11% |
| N13 | £546,000 | +5% |
| N7 | £529,000 | -6% |
| N11 | £522,000 | +3% |
| N17 | £450,000 | -5% |
| N18 | £428,400 | +8% |
| N9 | £409,000 | +8% |
Selling in N20? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in N20, open the average prices map and zoom from the N20 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded N20 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.