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Cricklewood market report NW2, London
The NW2 (Cricklewood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 23,346 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW2 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in NW2 (London) sold for £550,000 in 2026, the median of 146 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £664,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,200 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 23,346 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NW2 is a postcode district covering Cricklewood, Dollis Hill, Childs Hill in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where NW2 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 sells for
Across 146 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NW2 home went for £550,000. The mean is £664,500, 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
A square metre of NW2 home has cost about £7,200 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NW2 runs 93% above it.
A typical NW2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 146 |
| 2025 | £560,000 | £573,391 | 465 |
| 2024 | £575,000 | £611,343 | 431 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 383 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 484 |
| 2021 | £535,000 | £677,379 | 507 |
| 2020 | £555,000 | £720,124 | 317 |
| 2019 | £490,000 | £642,273 | 448 |
| 2018 | £480,000 | £639,849 | 478 |
| 2017 | £517,000 | £705,136 | 404 |
| 2016 | £505,000 | £706,500 | 623 |
| 2015 | £498,000 | £703,674 | 668 |
| 2014 | £425,000 | £602,937 | 757 |
| 2013 | £370,000 | £532,393 | 671 |
| 2012 | £334,500 | £492,342 | 542 |
| 2011 | £317,000 | £478,548 | 581 |
| 2010 | £330,000 | £517,525 | 625 |
| 2009 | £285,000 | £458,140 | 388 |
| 2008 | £300,000 | £491,763 | 447 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 1,089 |
| 2006 | £262,500 | £455,666 | 1,038 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 822 |
| 2004 | £238,500 | £433,163 | 997 |
| 2003 | £217,500 | £400,688 | 931 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 1,268 |
| 2001 | £160,000 | £307,592 | 1,462 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 1,102 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 1,263 |
| 1998 | £107,000 | £215,987 | 1,099 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 1,090 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 907 |
| 1995 | £73,400 | £159,560 | 913 |
In cash terms the typical NW2 home went from £73,400 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 245%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 24% 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 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 (+24.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−7.2%). 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) | −1.8% | −4.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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, 62% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,795,000 against £455,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, NW2
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 | £1,795,000 | 5 | 792 |
| Semi-detached | £875,000 | 23 | 4,184 |
| Terraced | £675,000 | 29 | 3,885 |
| Flats | £455,000 | 89 | 14,485 |
How many homes change hands in NW2
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
NW2 recorded 270 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,089 sales a year before the financial crisis and 382 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 rental side of NW2
For renting purposes NW2 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.
Against the £550,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,005 a month (£24,060 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Reading the NW2 market
Flats dominate what actually sells, at 61% of last year's transactions, and the headline median follows them. House buyers should lean on the type split above rather than the overall figure. Among the 11 measurable districts of its area, NW2 ranks 10 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about NW2 (Cricklewood)
Is NW2 (Cricklewood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW2 (Cricklewood)?
Are property prices falling in NW2 (Cricklewood)?
Where do NW2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in NW2 today
Everything above is what homes in NW2 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 128 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the NW2 median sold price.
NW2 registered 270 sales in the last twelve months; the 128 homes listed now would take about 6 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
30% 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 NW2 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Month by month: when NW2 sells
Across the 2,270 sales completed in NW2 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (11.5% of the total) and April the quietest (6.1%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 173 | 7.6% |
| February | 191 | 8.4% |
| March | 250 | 11.0% |
| April | 139 | 6.1% |
| May | 154 | 6.8% |
| June | 260 | 11.5% |
| July | 189 | 8.3% |
| August | 191 | 8.4% |
| September | 196 | 8.6% |
| October | 176 | 7.8% |
| November | 179 | 7.9% |
| December | 172 | 7.6% |
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. 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 | — | — | £802,500 | £1,040,000 (+30%) | £1,325,000 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £550,000 | £657,750 (+20%) | £920,000 (+40%) | £1,250,000 (+36%) |
| Terraced | £467,500 | £500,000 (+7%) | £615,000 (+23%) | £919,250 (+49%) | £1,400,000 (+52%) |
| Flat | £400,000 | £532,750 (+33%) | £727,500 (+37%) | £1,120,000 (+54%) | £1,650,000 (+47%) |
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
NW2 ranks 3 of 11 in the NW 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, NW area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside NW2, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NW2 1 | £740,000 | 15 |
| NW2 2 | £520,000 | 13 |
| NW2 3 | £497,000 | 28 |
| NW2 4 | £675,000 | 25 |
| NW2 5 | £500,000 | 25 |
| NW2 6 | £548,500 | 28 |
| NW2 7 | £390,000 | 12 |
How NW2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NW3 | £870,000 | -12% |
| NW11 | £852,500 | -14% |
| NW8 | £730,000 | -16% |
| NW6 | £655,000 | -6% |
| NW7 | £650,000 | +10% |
| NW1 | £635,000 | -9% |
| NW5 | £615,000 | -6% |
| NW4 | £562,600 | +13% |
| NW10 | £552,500 | +2% |
| NW2 (this report) | £550,000 | +3% |
| NW9 | £400,000 | -11% |
Selling in NW2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NW2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NW2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW2 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.