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Kentish Town market report NW5 4, London
The NW5 4 (Kentish Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,766 registered sales in NW5 4 (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: the typical home in NW5 4 (London) sold for £615,000 in 2026, the median of 13 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £659,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,720 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,766 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like NW5 4 is a single group of streets within NW5 (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 NW5 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.
The going rate for a home in NW5 4
The NW5 4 median stands at £615,000 for 2026, built from 13 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £659,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in NW5 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NW5 4 costs about £8,720 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NW5 4 runs 116% above it.
A typical NW5 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £615,000 | £615,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £545,000 | £558,033 | 49 |
| 2024 | £530,000 | £563,499 | 49 |
| 2023 | £586,900 | £644,860 | 60 |
| 2022 | £575,000 | £674,253 | 67 |
| 2021 | £537,500 | £680,544 | 62 |
| 2020 | £422,500 | £548,202 | 36 |
| 2019 | £555,000 | £727,472 | 38 |
| 2018 | £575,900 | £767,686 | 46 |
| 2017 | £513,000 | £699,681 | 45 |
| 2016 | £565,000 | £790,441 | 63 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 59 |
| 2014 | £397,000 | £563,214 | 63 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 59 |
| 2012 | £332,000 | £488,663 | 47 |
| 2011 | £322,500 | £486,851 | 50 |
| 2010 | £271,200 | £425,311 | 50 |
| 2009 | £212,000 | £340,792 | 59 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 43 |
| 2007 | £292,500 | £496,161 | 82 |
| 2006 | £300,000 | £520,762 | 86 |
| 2005 | £224,000 | £398,630 | 67 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 71 |
| 2003 | £211,200 | £389,082 | 70 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 71 |
| 2001 | £184,000 | £353,731 | 58 |
| 2000 | £195,000 | £382,688 | 44 |
| 1999 | £143,000 | £284,992 | 51 |
| 1998 | £123,500 | £249,294 | 58 |
| 1997 | £104,500 | £214,308 | 58 |
| 1996 | £119,000 | £250,966 | 54 |
| 1995 | £90,500 | £196,733 | 38 |
In cash terms the typical NW5 4 home went from £90,500 in 1995 to £615,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 213%, 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 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NW5 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 2000 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−23.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.8% | +10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in NW5 4
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.
NW5 4 recorded 13 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 69 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 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.
The shape of the NW5 4 market
This is a thin market: 13 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.
Rents around NW5 4
For renting purposes NW5 4 sits in Camden. The ONS average private rent there is £2,759 a month (May 2026). 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 £615,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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.
Common questions on NW5 4 (Kentish Town)
Are property prices falling in NW5 4 (Kentish Town)?
Is NW5 4 (Kentish Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW5 4 (Kentish Town)?
Are NW5 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
What you could buy in NW5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 120 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW5 district, not just NW5 4: 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 NW5 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.
Moving up a bedroom in NW: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NW area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
NW area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £630,100 | 34 |
| NW5 3 | £575,000 | 15 |
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 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NW5 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NW5 4.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every NW5 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.