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Kentish Town market report NW5 1, London
The NW5 1 (Kentish Town) 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: 2,988 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW5 1 (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: 24 registered 2026 sales put the NW5 1 (London) median at £622,600, down 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £1,031,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,690 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,988 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
NW5 1 is one sector of NW5 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NW5 1 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 NW5 1 sells for
The NW5 1 median stands at £622,600 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £1,031,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
NW5 1 prices by floor area
Per square metre, NW5 1 homes have averaged around £10,690 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 NW5 1 118% above the national figure.
The price of a typical NW5 1 home, 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 | £622,600 | £622,600 | 24 |
| 2025 | £725,000 | £742,337 | 90 |
| 2024 | £765,000 | £813,352 | 90 |
| 2023 | £770,000 | £846,042 | 74 |
| 2022 | £657,500 | £770,994 | 88 |
| 2021 | £691,000 | £874,895 | 101 |
| 2020 | £660,000 | £856,364 | 70 |
| 2019 | £1,052,500 | £1,379,576 | 62 |
| 2018 | £814,200 | £1,085,344 | 88 |
| 2017 | £719,000 | £980,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | £825,000 | £1,154,183 | 82 |
| 2015 | £618,800 | £874,364 | 96 |
| 2014 | £765,200 | £1,085,570 | 77 |
| 2013 | £490,000 | £705,061 | 84 |
| 2012 | £435,000 | £640,266 | 71 |
| 2011 | £422,500 | £637,813 | 82 |
| 2010 | £381,800 | £598,761 | 106 |
| 2009 | £360,000 | £578,703 | 96 |
| 2008 | £301,000 | £493,403 | 66 |
| 2007 | £423,000 | £717,526 | 113 |
| 2006 | £305,000 | £529,441 | 131 |
| 2005 | £320,000 | £569,471 | 115 |
| 2004 | £290,000 | £526,697 | 101 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 92 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 119 |
| 2001 | £233,000 | £447,931 | 108 |
| 2000 | £190,000 | £372,875 | 94 |
| 1999 | £193,000 | £384,639 | 135 |
| 1998 | £134,000 | £270,489 | 108 |
| 1997 | £131,000 | £268,655 | 132 |
| 1996 | £103,000 | £217,222 | 113 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical NW5 1 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £622,600 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 186%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 55% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NW5 1 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 2014 (+56.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−37.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NW5 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.1% | −16.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.1% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.8% | −6.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 24 NW5 1 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 109 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.
What homes rent for around NW5 1
NW5 1 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 £622,600 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
What kind of market NW5 1 is
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NW5 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Common questions on NW5 1 (Kentish Town)
Is NW5 1 (Kentish Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW5 1 (Kentish Town)?
Are property prices falling in NW5 1 (Kentish Town)?
Are NW5 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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 NW5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 120 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW5 district, not just NW5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 NW5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in NW
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NW area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) |
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
The spread across the NW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the NW area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NW5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NW5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW5 2 | £630,100 | 34 |
| NW5 3 | £575,000 | 15 |
| NW5 4 | £615,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full NW5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NW5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NW5 1? 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 NW5 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NW5 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NW5 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NW5 1.
Keep digging
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See every individual NW5 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.