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Kentish Town market report NW5 2, London
The standing NW5 2 (Kentish Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,545 HM Land Registry entries for NW5 2 (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NW5 2 (London) came in at £630,100, out of 34 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £878,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,220 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,545 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NW5 2 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 2 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.
NW5 2 sold prices: where the market stands
34 sales were registered in NW5 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £630,100. The mean works out at £878,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
NW5 2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NW5 2 costs about £10,220 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NW5 2 trades 121% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NW5 2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £630,100 | £630,100 | 34 |
| 2025 | £699,200 | £715,920 | 86 |
| 2024 | £650,000 | £691,084 | 88 |
| 2023 | £565,000 | £620,797 | 81 |
| 2022 | £652,500 | £765,131 | 120 |
| 2021 | £691,200 | £875,148 | 118 |
| 2020 | £700,000 | £908,264 | 85 |
| 2019 | £670,000 | £878,210 | 59 |
| 2018 | £647,000 | £862,463 | 65 |
| 2017 | £595,000 | £811,520 | 97 |
| 2016 | £705,000 | £986,302 | 71 |
| 2015 | £595,000 | £840,735 | 94 |
| 2014 | £610,000 | £865,392 | 115 |
| 2013 | £555,600 | £799,453 | 115 |
| 2012 | £451,000 | £663,816 | 81 |
| 2011 | £425,000 | £641,587 | 118 |
| 2010 | £395,000 | £619,462 | 97 |
| 2009 | £350,800 | £563,914 | 88 |
| 2008 | £327,500 | £536,842 | 76 |
| 2007 | £342,000 | £580,127 | 153 |
| 2006 | £297,000 | £515,554 | 151 |
| 2005 | £273,200 | £486,186 | 146 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 147 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 138 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 169 |
| 2001 | £215,000 | £413,327 | 147 |
| 2000 | £195,500 | £383,669 | 113 |
| 1999 | £170,000 | £338,801 | 163 |
| 1998 | £129,000 | £260,396 | 150 |
| 1997 | £122,500 | £251,223 | 149 |
| 1996 | £102,000 | £215,113 | 132 |
| 1995 | £93,000 | £202,168 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical NW5 2 home went from £93,000 in 1995 to £630,100 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 212%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. 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 NW5 2 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, 2017 (−15.6%). 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) | −9.9% | −12.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.1% | −4.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in NW5 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
How NW5 2 trades
This is a thin market: 34 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.
What tenants pay around NW5 2
For renting purposes NW5 2 sits in Camden. The ONS average private rent there is £2,759 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,008 a month here against £3,890 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Camden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £630,100 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 people ask about NW5 2 (Kentish Town)
Are property prices falling in NW5 2 (Kentish Town)?
Is NW5 2 (Kentish Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW5 2 (Kentish Town)?
Will NW5 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% 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 2: 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.
What another bedroom costs 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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NW5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NW5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW5 1 | £622,600 | 24 |
| 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 in NW5 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NW5 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the NW5 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NW5 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NW5 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NW5 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW5 2 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.
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.