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Cricklewood market report NW2 4, London
The NW2 4 (Cricklewood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,297 HM Land Registry entries for NW2 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in NW2 4 (London) sold for £643,800 in 2026, the median of 20 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £826,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,610 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,297 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NW2 4 is one sector of NW2 (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 NW2 4 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 NW2 4 sells for
Take the 20 registered 2026 sales in NW2 4 and the middle price, the median, is £643,800. The mean lands at £826,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in NW2 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NW2 4 costs about £7,610 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NW2 4 sits 126% above the national market.
NW2 4'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 | £643,800 | £643,800 | 20 |
| 2025 | £585,000 | £598,989 | 69 |
| 2024 | £663,200 | £705,118 | 72 |
| 2023 | £760,000 | £835,054 | 55 |
| 2022 | £675,000 | £791,515 | 75 |
| 2021 | £652,500 | £826,149 | 73 |
| 2020 | £690,000 | £895,289 | 39 |
| 2019 | £570,000 | £747,134 | 76 |
| 2018 | £620,000 | £826,472 | 55 |
| 2017 | £635,000 | £866,076 | 47 |
| 2016 | £697,500 | £975,809 | 64 |
| 2015 | £610,500 | £862,637 | 72 |
| 2014 | £500,000 | £709,337 | 121 |
| 2013 | £465,000 | £669,089 | 115 |
| 2012 | £435,000 | £640,266 | 89 |
| 2011 | £385,000 | £581,202 | 79 |
| 2010 | £390,000 | £611,620 | 97 |
| 2009 | £366,000 | £588,348 | 63 |
| 2008 | £365,000 | £598,312 | 51 |
| 2007 | £345,000 | £585,216 | 173 |
| 2006 | £290,000 | £503,403 | 165 |
| 2005 | £297,500 | £529,430 | 114 |
| 2004 | £277,000 | £503,086 | 122 |
| 2003 | £241,800 | £445,454 | 130 |
| 2002 | £225,000 | £423,336 | 153 |
| 2001 | £196,200 | £377,184 | 170 |
| 2000 | £168,000 | £329,700 | 143 |
| 1999 | £144,800 | £288,579 | 180 |
| 1998 | £115,000 | £232,136 | 160 |
| 1997 | £112,000 | £229,689 | 169 |
| 1996 | £90,500 | £190,860 | 157 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 129 |
In cash terms the typical NW2 4 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £643,800 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 248%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 34% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NW2 4 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−12.7%). 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) | +10.1% | +7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.8% | −4.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 20 sales completed in NW2 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
Rents around NW2 4
NW2 4 falls under Brent, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,005 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,571 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,048, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Brent
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £643,800 median sold price, £2,005 a month is £24,060 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Reading the NW2 4 market
This is a thin market: 20 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the NW2 district median, NW2 4 sits 17% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on NW2 4 (Cricklewood)
Are property prices falling in NW2 4 (Cricklewood)?
Is NW2 4 (Cricklewood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW2 4 (Cricklewood)?
What happens to NW2 4 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in NW2 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 143 homes currently on the market from 14 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW2 district, not just NW2 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% 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.
"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 NW2 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 NW
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NW area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | — | £992,500 | £1,400,000 (+41%) | £2,225,000 (+59%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £568,000 | £680,000 (+20%) | £969,000 (+43%) | £1,525,000 (+57%) |
| Terraced | £490,000 | £545,000 (+11%) | £720,000 (+32%) | £1,150,000 (+60%) | £1,850,000 (+61%) |
| Flat | £424,334 | £586,000 (+38%) | £922,500 (+57%) | £1,675,000 (+82%) | £2,550,500 (+52%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, NW area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NW2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NW2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW2 1 | £776,000 | 13 |
| NW2 2 | £520,000 | 11 |
| NW2 3 | £485,000 | 24 |
| NW2 5 | £475,000 | 20 |
| NW2 6 | £550,000 | 21 |
| NW2 7 | £540,000 | 9 |
Zoom out to the full NW2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NW2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in NW2 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NW2 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the NW2 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NW2 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NW2 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NW2 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NW2 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.