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Hampstead market report NW3 3, London
The NW3 3 (Hampstead) 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: 3,746 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW3 3 (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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NW3 3 (London) came in at £770,000, out of 20 registered, down 24% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £944,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,150 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,746 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like NW3 3 is a single group of streets within NW3 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where NW3 3 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 NW3 3 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for NW3 3 is £770,000, taken from 20 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £944,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in NW3 3
Per square metre, NW3 3 homes have averaged around £12,150 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving NW3 3 170% above the national figure.
The price of a typical NW3 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £770,000 | £770,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £889,000 | £910,259 | 92 |
| 2024 | £1,212,500 | £1,289,137 | 90 |
| 2023 | £923,500 | £1,014,701 | 62 |
| 2022 | £920,000 | £1,078,805 | 82 |
| 2021 | £1,012,500 | £1,281,956 | 102 |
| 2020 | £974,000 | £1,263,785 | 67 |
| 2019 | £1,125,000 | £1,474,606 | 71 |
| 2018 | £1,000,000 | £1,333,019 | 55 |
| 2017 | £1,050,000 | £1,432,095 | 47 |
| 2016 | £944,000 | £1,320,665 | 70 |
| 2015 | £965,000 | £1,363,545 | 82 |
| 2014 | £830,000 | £1,177,500 | 111 |
| 2013 | £825,000 | £1,187,093 | 105 |
| 2012 | £690,000 | £1,015,594 | 100 |
| 2011 | £615,000 | £928,413 | 99 |
| 2010 | £675,000 | £1,058,574 | 141 |
| 2009 | £515,000 | £827,867 | 87 |
| 2008 | £470,000 | £770,429 | 103 |
| 2007 | £475,100 | £805,902 | 138 |
| 2006 | £492,500 | £854,917 | 218 |
| 2005 | £500,000 | £889,798 | 197 |
| 2004 | £380,000 | £690,154 | 128 |
| 2003 | £360,000 | £663,207 | 95 |
| 2002 | £349,000 | £656,640 | 153 |
| 2001 | £341,500 | £656,516 | 154 |
| 2000 | £297,000 | £582,863 | 164 |
| 1999 | £245,000 | £488,272 | 183 |
| 1998 | £194,000 | £391,603 | 155 |
| 1997 | £196,000 | £401,956 | 229 |
| 1996 | £176,000 | £371,176 | 198 |
| 1995 | £151,800 | £329,990 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical NW3 3 home went from £151,800 in 1995 to £770,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 133%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 48% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NW3 3 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 2005 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−26.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.4% | −15.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.3% | −9.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.0% | −5.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in NW3 3
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.
NW3 3 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
Reading the NW3 3 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. 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. Within NW3, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of NW3 3
NW3 3 falls under Camden, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,759 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £2,008 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,890, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Camden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £770,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
Asked and answered: NW3 3 (Hampstead)
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Where do NW3 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 24% over five years in cash but down 40% 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 NW3 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 146 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW3 district, not just NW3 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 NW3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: NW prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NW area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | — | £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%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in NW3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NW3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW3 1 | £1,310,000 | 21 |
| NW3 2 | £750,000 | 28 |
| NW3 4 | £700,000 | 35 |
| NW3 5 | £1,111,500 | 20 |
| NW3 6 | £816,000 | 26 |
| NW3 7 | £1,160,000 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full NW3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NW3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in NW3 3: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NW3 3'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.
Estate agents working NW3 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim NW3 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NW3 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW3 3 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.