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Hampstead market report NW3 4, London
The standing NW3 4 (Hampstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,607 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW3 4 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 35 registered 2026 sales put the NW3 4 (London) median at £700,000, down 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £910,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,400 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,607 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
NW3 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NW3 (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 NW3 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.
Today's NW3 4 prices, from the sold record
Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in NW3 4 and the middle price, the median, is £700,000. The mean lands at £910,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
NW3 4 prices by floor area
A square metre of NW3 4 home has cost about £12,400 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NW3 4 trades 146% above the country as a whole.
NW3 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £700,000 | £700,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £875,000 | £895,924 | 122 |
| 2024 | £910,500 | £968,049 | 129 |
| 2023 | £1,000,000 | £1,098,756 | 107 |
| 2022 | £935,000 | £1,096,394 | 119 |
| 2021 | £857,500 | £1,085,706 | 154 |
| 2020 | £830,000 | £1,076,942 | 88 |
| 2019 | £980,000 | £1,284,545 | 90 |
| 2018 | £885,000 | £1,179,722 | 79 |
| 2017 | £972,500 | £1,326,392 | 108 |
| 2016 | £900,000 | £1,259,109 | 128 |
| 2015 | £912,500 | £1,289,363 | 148 |
| 2014 | £850,000 | £1,205,873 | 175 |
| 2013 | £750,000 | £1,079,175 | 154 |
| 2012 | £651,000 | £958,191 | 170 |
| 2011 | £650,000 | £981,250 | 173 |
| 2010 | £549,000 | £860,973 | 180 |
| 2009 | £532,500 | £855,998 | 165 |
| 2008 | £499,500 | £818,786 | 140 |
| 2007 | £495,000 | £839,658 | 225 |
| 2006 | £430,000 | £746,425 | 245 |
| 2005 | £395,000 | £702,941 | 221 |
| 2004 | £368,000 | £668,360 | 245 |
| 2003 | £345,000 | £635,574 | 185 |
| 2002 | £336,600 | £633,310 | 270 |
| 2001 | £303,000 | £582,502 | 205 |
| 2000 | £260,000 | £510,250 | 265 |
| 1999 | £237,200 | £472,727 | 280 |
| 1998 | £180,000 | £363,343 | 240 |
| 1997 | £173,000 | £354,788 | 263 |
| 1996 | £145,800 | £307,486 | 284 |
| 1995 | £126,000 | £273,905 | 215 |
In cash terms the typical NW3 4 home went from £126,000 in 1995 to £700,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 156%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 47% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NW3 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.0%). 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) | −20.0% | −21.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.0% | −8.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.5% | −5.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
NW3 4 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 233 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
What homes rent for around NW3 4
For renting purposes NW3 4 sits in Camden. The ONS average private rent there is £2,759 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £2,008 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,890 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Camden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £700,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
What kind of market NW3 4 is
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NW3 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within NW3, this sector trades 20% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about NW3 4 (Hampstead)
Is NW3 4 (Hampstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW3 4 (Hampstead)?
Are property prices falling in NW3 4 (Hampstead)?
Where do NW3 4 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 18% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in NW3 today
Turning to what is actually available: 146 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW3 district, not just NW3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in NW
Real sold prices by size across the NW area, straight 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%) |
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
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NW3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW3 1 | £1,310,000 | 21 |
| NW3 2 | £750,000 | 28 |
| NW3 3 | £770,000 | 20 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in NW3 4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NW3 4'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 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim NW3 4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NW3 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW3 4 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.