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Hampstead market report NW3 5, London
The NW3 5 (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: 3,586 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW3 5 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical NW3 5 (London) home changed hands for £1,111,500 in 2026 (median of 20 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £1,277,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,586 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
NW3 5 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 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.
NW3 5 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for NW3 5 is £1,111,500, taken from 20 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £1,277,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
NW3 5 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NW3 5 sales average about £12,630 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NW3 5 290% above the country at large.
The price of a typical NW3 5 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £1,111,500 | £1,111,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £1,205,000 | £1,233,815 | 66 |
| 2024 | £1,075,000 | £1,142,946 | 98 |
| 2023 | £1,185,000 | £1,302,026 | 65 |
| 2022 | £1,050,000 | £1,231,245 | 78 |
| 2021 | £1,051,200 | £1,330,955 | 92 |
| 2020 | £1,040,000 | £1,349,421 | 69 |
| 2019 | £1,050,000 | £1,376,299 | 65 |
| 2018 | £1,298,800 | £1,731,325 | 60 |
| 2017 | £1,250,000 | £1,704,875 | 67 |
| 2016 | £1,250,000 | £1,748,762 | 59 |
| 2015 | £990,000 | £1,398,870 | 94 |
| 2014 | £997,000 | £1,414,419 | 118 |
| 2013 | £900,000 | £1,295,010 | 124 |
| 2012 | £920,000 | £1,354,125 | 78 |
| 2011 | £724,000 | £1,092,962 | 100 |
| 2010 | £694,500 | £1,089,155 | 102 |
| 2009 | £585,000 | £940,392 | 75 |
| 2008 | £578,200 | £947,792 | 82 |
| 2007 | £575,000 | £975,360 | 157 |
| 2006 | £470,000 | £815,860 | 181 |
| 2005 | £450,000 | £800,819 | 113 |
| 2004 | £475,000 | £862,693 | 129 |
| 2003 | £437,000 | £805,060 | 119 |
| 2002 | £389,000 | £731,900 | 154 |
| 2001 | £332,000 | £638,253 | 165 |
| 2000 | £308,000 | £604,450 | 164 |
| 1999 | £250,000 | £498,237 | 180 |
| 1998 | £230,000 | £464,271 | 175 |
| 1997 | £200,000 | £410,160 | 211 |
| 1996 | £175,000 | £369,067 | 178 |
| 1995 | £148,000 | £321,729 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical NW3 5 home went from £148,000 in 1995 to £1,111,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 245%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NW3 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 2012 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−19.2%). 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) | −7.8% | −9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.2% | −4.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in NW3 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 20 NW3 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 148 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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 5
For renting purposes NW3 5 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 £1,111,500 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 3.0% 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.
The shape of the NW3 5 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 27% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about NW3 5 (Hampstead)
Are property prices falling in NW3 5 (Hampstead)?
Is NW3 5 (Hampstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW3 5 (Hampstead)?
Will NW3 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
NW3's current homes for sale
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 NW3 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.
What another bedroom costs in NW
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NW3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NW3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW3 1 | £1,310,000 | 21 |
| NW3 2 | £750,000 | 28 |
| NW3 3 | £770,000 | 20 |
| NW3 4 | £700,000 | 35 |
| 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.
Selling a home in NW3 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NW3 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NW3 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NW3 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NW3 5.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual NW3 5 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.