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Cricklewood market report NW2 5, London
The standing NW2 5 (Cricklewood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,600 registered sales in NW2 5 (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NW2 5 (London) came in at £475,000, out of 20 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £577,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,020 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,600 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NW2 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NW2 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NW2 5 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 NW2 5 homes really sell for
The NW2 5 median stands at £475,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £577,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
NW2 5 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NW2 5 sales average about £7,020 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NW2 5 runs 67% above it.
A typical NW2 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 85 |
| 2024 | £509,000 | £541,172 | 79 |
| 2023 | £515,000 | £565,859 | 66 |
| 2022 | £494,000 | £579,271 | 76 |
| 2021 | £466,500 | £590,649 | 86 |
| 2020 | £580,200 | £752,821 | 40 |
| 2019 | £480,000 | £629,165 | 55 |
| 2018 | £462,500 | £616,521 | 52 |
| 2017 | £500,000 | £681,950 | 67 |
| 2016 | £500,000 | £699,505 | 93 |
| 2015 | £467,500 | £660,578 | 107 |
| 2014 | £409,500 | £580,947 | 115 |
| 2013 | £350,000 | £503,615 | 89 |
| 2012 | £305,000 | £448,922 | 93 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 84 |
| 2010 | £262,500 | £411,668 | 105 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 53 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 64 |
| 2007 | £257,000 | £435,944 | 176 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 162 |
| 2005 | £211,200 | £375,851 | 116 |
| 2004 | £214,000 | £388,666 | 165 |
| 2003 | £204,500 | £376,739 | 138 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 187 |
| 2001 | £158,000 | £303,747 | 218 |
| 2000 | £139,500 | £273,769 | 182 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 176 |
| 1998 | £92,700 | £187,122 | 170 |
| 1997 | £81,600 | £167,345 | 175 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 135 |
| 1995 | £63,200 | £137,387 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical NW2 5 home went from £63,200 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 246%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NW2 5 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 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−19.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NW2 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.5% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 20 NW2 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 168 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
How NW2 5 trades
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. Within NW2, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of NW2 5
For renting purposes NW2 5 sits in Brent. The ONS average private rent there is £2,005 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,571 a month here against £3,048 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Brent
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£2,005 a month is £24,060 a year, which against the £475,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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 ask about NW2 5 (Cricklewood)
How much did a house sell for in NW2 5 (Cricklewood)?
Are property prices falling in NW2 5 (Cricklewood)?
Is NW2 5 (Cricklewood) a good place to buy a house?
Will NW2 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 is for sale in NW2 right 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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in NW: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NW area. 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 | — | — | £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%) |
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. 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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NW2, each linking to 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 4 | £643,800 | 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.
Thinking of selling in NW2 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NW2 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the NW2 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NW2 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working NW2 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim NW2 5.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NW2 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW2 5 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.
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.