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Kentish Town market report NW5, London
The NW5 (Kentish Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 9,780 registered sales in NW5 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical NW5 (London) home changed hands for £615,000 in 2026 (median of 86 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £861,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,040 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,780 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
NW5 is the postcode district covering Kentish Town, Dartmouth Park in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where NW5 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 sold prices: where the market stands
In the NW5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £615,000, from 86 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £861,600, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
NW5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put NW5 at roughly £10,040 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NW5 116% above the country at large.
NW5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £615,000 | £615,000 | 86 |
| 2025 | £677,500 | £693,701 | 278 |
| 2024 | £675,000 | £717,664 | 268 |
| 2023 | £650,500 | £714,741 | 258 |
| 2022 | £655,000 | £768,062 | 319 |
| 2021 | £652,000 | £825,516 | 327 |
| 2020 | £630,000 | £817,438 | 224 |
| 2019 | £683,800 | £896,298 | 196 |
| 2018 | £712,300 | £949,509 | 228 |
| 2017 | £641,000 | £874,260 | 268 |
| 2016 | £648,800 | £907,678 | 254 |
| 2015 | £595,000 | £840,735 | 311 |
| 2014 | £597,500 | £847,658 | 330 |
| 2013 | £500,000 | £719,450 | 295 |
| 2012 | £425,000 | £625,547 | 261 |
| 2011 | £390,000 | £588,750 | 285 |
| 2010 | £370,000 | £580,255 | 303 |
| 2009 | £325,000 | £522,440 | 275 |
| 2008 | £311,800 | £511,106 | 212 |
| 2007 | £347,800 | £589,966 | 426 |
| 2006 | £310,000 | £538,120 | 447 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 386 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 380 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 349 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 399 |
| 2001 | £224,000 | £430,629 | 356 |
| 2000 | £195,000 | £382,688 | 283 |
| 1999 | £175,000 | £348,766 | 415 |
| 1998 | £139,000 | £280,581 | 405 |
| 1997 | £123,000 | £252,248 | 371 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 334 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 251 |
In cash terms the typical NW5 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £615,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 35% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NW5 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 74% of the typed total. In 2004, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,102,500 against £226,500 for a flat, 4.9 times the price.
Median by property type, NW5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £1,102,500 (2004) | – | 67 |
| Semi-detached | £1,725,000 | 6 | 457 |
| Terraced | £1,425,000 | 11 | 1,981 |
| Flats | £560,000 | 68 | 7,225 |
What NW5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.2% | −11.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.5% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in NW5
How many homes change hands
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 183 NW5 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 378 sales a year before the financial crisis and 242 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around NW5
For renting purposes NW5 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.
Set against the £615,000 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: NW5 (Kentish Town)
Is NW5 (Kentish Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW5 (Kentish Town)?
Are property prices falling in NW5 (Kentish Town)?
Where do NW5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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 is for sale in NW5 right now
Everything above is what homes in NW5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 120 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 60% above the NW5 median sold price.
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" 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
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%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
NW5 ranks 5 of 11 in the NW area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, NW area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside NW5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW5 1 | £622,600 | 24 |
| NW5 2 | £630,100 | 34 |
| NW5 3 | £575,000 | 15 |
| NW5 4 | £615,000 | 13 |
How NW5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NW3 | £872,500 | -12% |
| NW11 | £822,500 | -17% |
| NW8 | £725,000 | -17% |
| NW6 | £645,600 | -8% |
| NW7 | £633,000 | +7% |
| NW1 | £630,000 | -10% |
| NW5 (this report) | £615,000 | -6% |
| NW4 | £562,600 | +13% |
| NW2 | £550,000 | +3% |
| NW10 | £534,000 | -1% |
| NW9 | £395,000 | -12% |
Selling in NW5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NW5'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.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NW5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NW5 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.