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St John's Wood market report NW8 8, London
The NW8 8 (St John's Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,603 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW8 8 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NW8 8 (London) came in at £397,500, out of 6 registered, down 35% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £487,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £9,460 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,603 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like NW8 8 is a single group of streets within NW8 (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 NW8 8 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 NW8 8 homes really sell for
The NW8 8 median stands at £397,500 for 2026, built from 6 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £487,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in NW8 8
Per square metre, NW8 8 homes have averaged around £9,460 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NW8 8 runs 39% above it.
NW8 8's median sold price, 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 | £397,500 | £397,500 | 6 |
| 2025 | £862,500 | £883,125 | 24 |
| 2024 | £714,200 | £759,341 | 40 |
| 2023 | £990,000 | £1,087,768 | 55 |
| 2022 | £828,000 | £970,924 | 103 |
| 2021 | £615,000 | £778,669 | 43 |
| 2020 | £715,500 | £928,376 | 29 |
| 2019 | £814,800 | £1,068,008 | 36 |
| 2018 | £530,000 | £706,500 | 25 |
| 2017 | £480,000 | £654,672 | 35 |
| 2016 | £535,500 | £749,170 | 42 |
| 2015 | £525,000 | £741,825 | 53 |
| 2014 | £460,000 | £652,590 | 56 |
| 2013 | £413,000 | £594,266 | 72 |
| 2012 | £370,000 | £544,594 | 59 |
| 2011 | £390,000 | £588,750 | 41 |
| 2010 | £325,000 | £509,684 | 46 |
| 2009 | £291,900 | £469,232 | 70 |
| 2008 | £292,300 | £479,141 | 74 |
| 2007 | £335,000 | £568,253 | 133 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 135 |
| 2005 | £244,200 | £434,578 | 104 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 111 |
| 2003 | £230,000 | £423,716 | 129 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 147 |
| 2001 | £187,500 | £360,459 | 122 |
| 2000 | £214,500 | £420,956 | 192 |
| 1999 | £132,000 | £263,069 | 127 |
| 1998 | £106,000 | £213,969 | 111 |
| 1997 | £150,000 | £307,620 | 259 |
| 1996 | £74,200 | £156,484 | 72 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 52 |
In cash terms the typical NW8 8 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £397,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 144%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 63% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NW8 8 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 1997 (+102.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−53.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NW8 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −53.9% | −55.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.4% | −12.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.9% | −6.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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 NW8 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 6 sales completed in NW8 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 134 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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 NW8 8 market
This is a thin market: 6 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. Against the NW8 district median, NW8 8 sits 45% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around NW8 8
For renting purposes NW8 8 sits in Westminster. The ONS average private rent there is £3,163 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,517 a month here against £5,378 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, which against the £397,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 9.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about NW8 8 (St John's Wood)
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What happens to NW8 8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 35% over five years in cash but down 49% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
NW8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 92 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW8 district, not just NW8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% 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.
- Townshend Road, St John's Wood, London
- Clifton Hill, St John's Wood, London
- Ordnance Hill, St John's Wood, London
"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 NW8 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: NW prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the NW area, straight 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%) |
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. 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NW8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NW8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW8 0 | £800,000 | 14 |
| NW8 6 | £1,691,500 | 10 |
| NW8 7 | £610,000 | 20 |
| NW8 9 | £735,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full NW8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NW8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NW8 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NW8 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the NW8 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NW8 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NW8 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NW8 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW8 8 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.